How PiCockpit Solved a Swissbit Compatibility Challenge

Using a Swissbit SD card with your Raspberry Pi can offer excellent durability and performance, but it may present unique compatibility challenges depending on your setup. At PiCockpit, our goal has always been simple: to make your Raspberry Pi work as well as possible. Recently, we had the chance to help a customer who was…

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Paragon Project: Blackberry Pi Cyberdeck

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This project is unquestionably a contender for Paragon Project of the year! It’s a cyberdeck made with a Raspberry Pi Zero that mirrors the shape and size of an old Blackberry phone. It was created and shared by Zhou Xu over at zxmake.dev. It’s fittingly called “Blackberry Pi”. Zhou clarifies that the inspiration for the…

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6 Ways to Keep Your Raspberry Pi 5 Safe

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What should you do to secure your Raspberry Pi 5? In this article, I’ll go over some of the quickest and best ways to ensure that your Raspberry Pi 5 is safe. So before (or while) you’re setting up your Raspberry Pi 5, read this article first! #1: Set up secure passwords, seriously For many…

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TigerVNC and RealVNC on Raspberry Pi Bookworm OS

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Since the release of Bookworm OS, I’ve seen a number of people struggling to get a VNC server set up on their Raspberry Pi. So I thought I would take this opportunity to share with you how to get RealVNC installed on yours. We discussed the switch over from RealVNC in our article about Bookworm…

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Paragon Project: Cyber-Tape-Deck

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This computer will change the way you see your old electronics. It’s time to go pull out that tapedeck out of storage and grab your Raspberry Pi, because this cyberdeck is guaranteed to inspire you to build your own. It’s the Cyber-Tape-Deck, put together by Matthew H. And we’re super happy to include it in…

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Help! My Raspberry Pi Won’t Connect to WiFi!

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One of the most common problems you might encounter with your Raspberry Pi is it not connecting to the WiFi. There are new posts on the Raspberry Pi forums every day looking to resolve these issues. Here, we are compiling all the answers (along with some of our own) into one ultimate guide to fix…

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Paragon Project: A Ham Radio Cyberdeck

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This has everything that you could possibly want in a Raspberry Pi project. It’s creative, it’s stylish, and it’s fun. Most of all – it’s useful! It’s a ham radio cyberdeck, put together by Kaushlesh Chandel. Ham radios – or amateur radios – use radio frequencies for communication. They can be extremely useful if you’re…

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Why is my Raspberry Pi so slow?

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It’s a tale as old as time (or at least as old as 2012). You receive your sleek new Raspberry Pi in its little paper packaging. You pull it out, flash your SD card, and plug that sucker in. Before you know it though, you’re rushing to the internet to answer one very pressing question:…

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Headless setup for Raspberry Pi

With this Headless setup all you need to run your Raspberry Pi is a MicroSD and a power adapter. Learn how to connect to your Pi from Windows. Requirements Hardware Software Make sure that you have alle the hardware requirements at hand and download the free software that we are going to need for this…

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The big Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Troubleshooting guide

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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 showing blank or rainbow screen and no LED  If you’ve ensured that your Raspberry Pi has power but are not seeing anything on the screen and/or you don’t see the green LED, it means that there’s something wrong with your SD card. It could be that it isn’t inserted, it could…

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