Today, you probably do a lot of this: ssh pi@192.168.1.108 Or even: ssh pi@raspberrypi.local At some point you’ll have a pile of Raspberry Pis around your house and you’ll have to start reserving IP addresses in your router to reliably get to them. That, or you’ll have to continuously look them up in the “attached”… Continue reading Name your PIs with mDNS – forget the IPs with ZeroConf
Digital Logger’s IOT Logic Outlets In my previous two articles – we show two ways the Raspberry Pi can control power through Wifi: Raspberry PI for controlling TP-Link POWER Raspberry PI for Controlling Wemo Power These assume wifi-enabled outlets, which are great, but there are some cases where you really want the Raspberry PI to… Continue reading Raspberry PI Controlling Power through GPIO (no wifi needed)
MagPi Issue #53 This issue of the MagPi magazine has a great set of intro-to-programming articles that are short and sweet. To boot these folks have made this magazine available for Download. Its a tremendous resource. When teaching kids, having something that gets it done fast is important, and they’ve done a great job with… Continue reading MagPi Issue #53 is Fantastic for an Intro To Python Programming!
I get asked a lot what parents should get for their kids to get started with the raspberry pi. This article has the short list of items that I consider the minimum set. (So I can simply point to this! 😉 ) Something to keep in mind – if you find you are interested in… Continue reading Get the minimum necessary Raspberry Pi Hardware
SD3000 by U-Reach Tools of the trade – The Raspberry PI Card Copier For school settings, or when trying to recreate a project multiple times, a flash card copier is a fantastic tool. It’s not cheap though, it will set you back about $140, so consider it carefully. Once you have it though – you’ll… Continue reading SD Flash Copier – Duplicate Raspberry PI Disks with ease!
Tracking down information… is the hardest part of it. I had an interesting time finding all of the commands that would work to mount a network share on my little linux box. After a bit of trial and error, the steps needed to mount a network drive consist of first creating a mount point: mkdir pictures… Continue reading Mount a Network Share at Boot on your Raspberry PI 3
Setting up a new raspberry pi can be a bit of a pain. PiBakery makes that process *much* easier and it adds a few unexpected features that are extremely valuable! Go to their site: http://www.pibakery.org and click: You’ll be presented with the various OS options. Hopefully you can take it from there. Let me know in the… Continue reading PiBakery – Tool with Side benefits for setting up your Raspberry Pi
Simple… but good golly it took a lot of searching to track it down: I muddle through the instructions found here (but watch out, they wont work): https://www.danpurdy.co.uk/web-development/raspberry-pi-kiosk-screen-tutorial/ Install the software… The are a couple of reasons that post wont work. Here are some modified instructions that do: Install needed software through apt-get: sudo apt-get install -y x11-xserver-utils… Continue reading Boot Raspberry PI into Chromium (Chrome Browser) Kiosk!
I’ve started trying to get my kids interested in programming in python by giving them a simple word-adventure game they can modify. They can gather weapons, armor, and treasure while battling monsters of their own design. Feel free to download it for your kids and make updates! Made to run on Python3 https://github.com/mamacker/kidgame
Image source: http://weknowyourdreams.com/single/magic/magic-03 By now we’ve figured out lots of fun chunks of code. All inspired by the idea of a wand controlling your home. When I say by now, I’m referring to the previous articles: Listening to remote (the wand) Keeping the listener alive.. forever Talking to an tplink outlet or talking to a wemo outlet The… Continue reading Tying it all together! Wand > LIRC > Socket > Forever > Outlet
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