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The Ultimate Armchair ARM Computer

dougw

I have been planning to make the ultimate armchair Pi for quite a while. The idea was to create a system that will connect to the TV in the family room to allow leisure and entertainment types of computing activities to be performed from the comfort ...
- 14 Mar 2020
The Raspberry Pi Has Been in More Movies, and TV Shows Than you Might Think

Catwell

The Raspberry Pi being installed for the ultimate hack in the TV series "Mr. Robot." It was a pivotal moment for the whole series... accomplished with a single Raspberry Pi. It was awesome. (Image credit: Mr. Robot TV series)&nb...
- 13 Mar 2020
The Raspberry Pi Continues to Thrive for Industrial and Automation Applications

Catwell

The Raspberry Pi is widely utilized for its project capabilities among engineers and makers alike. It has been used to create everything from robots to remote monitoring devices since its release back in 2012. Not long after, industry managers ...
- 13 Mar 2020
How Hot Is Too Hot for Raspberry Pi?

brainboxesbuff

How Does Pi Deal with Overheating?A reported issue with Raspberry Pi can be overheating, with a resulting loss of performance, when the board is exposed to high temperatures. All electrical devices are qualified to a specific operating tem...
- 12 Mar 2020
Home Automation with Raspberry Pi 4 and Amazon Echo Dot (Alexa)

deepakgupta

Automate your Home using Raspberry Pi and Amazon Echo Dot Overview:This project uses an Amazon Echo Dot which is used for natural language processing (NPL) and a Raspberry Pi 4 Board. We can give a voice command to Alexa device and switc...
- 12 Mar 2020
Pi Day 2020 - March 14th

jomoenginer

It's that time of year again; Pi Day!. No, not that Raspberry board thing, but that Greek letter constant that is somewhere around 3.14159. But, hey, it seems that is also Albert Einstein's birthday as well. Oh, so it was the Raspberry Pi...
- 11 Mar 2020
GraspIO - IoT for non programmer - Part #1

soleakun

I have given GraspIO a try as it seems to offer easy development via mobile phone and free IoT cloud callsThe IO and sensor, plus a little screen makes it useful i plug it to a raspbeerry pi 3 B+, put in a 8GB microSD card with graspIO ima...
- 9 Mar 2020
Roadtest help - Raspberry Pi 3 in a box (official kit) I need your help! post your questions!

gam3t3ch

www.youtube.com/watch I have been recently selected for a roadtest on element14.com the Raspberry Pi 3 in a box. This is the official Raspberry pi kit which includes tons of goodies but I need information from you first! I am following my guidel...
- 5 Mar 2020
Omron HVC on the Raspberry Pi 4

gpolder

Introduction Hardware Software Introduction A couple of months ago (November 2019) I'v been asked by e14phil to test and troubleshoot using the Omron HVC on the Raspberry Pi 4 using their python scripts (https://www.element14.com/commu...
- 22 Feb 2020
Prototyping on a Pi and Deploying to Industry: Considerations for IIoT

brainboxesbuff

Sensors and actuators are essential elements of industrial systems, instrumental to any application that requires automated control, or real-time monitoring. Sensors measure changes in the environment, while actuators control physical changes. Both d...
- 21 Jan 2020
Raspberry Pi For Beginners Course Part 1

gam3t3ch

I will say there was a lot more in depth information at the course a bunch more fun as we even had samreen.islam on a google hangout showing off a project once again thank you to matrixlabs for being apart of the course. I will say there ...
- 11 Jan 2020
Fix Raspberry Pi Webcam Freezing Lagging Jittering issue

gam3t3ch

#Open TerminalPress Ctrl + Alt + t on your keyboard#install PCI utilitiessudo apt-get install pciutils#run on every bootsudo nano /etc/rc.local#add the command before exit 0sudo setpci -s 01:00.0 0xD4.B=0x41#rebootsudo reboot www.youtube.c...
- 6 Dec 2019
sub-GHz Radio Modules Provide Easy Wireless Connectivity for Amber Pi Projects

rscasny

Decentralized Intelligence, Cyber Physical Systems, Smart Home and Smart Factory - the Internet of Things is on everybody’s lips. IoT thereby does not necessarily imply the connection of devices using the Internet protocol. Whenever cables interfere ...
- 26 Nov 2019
Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

stevesmythe

[Updated 03 January 2020 - see addendum at bottom of the page] I was lucky enough to win one of the 20 Raspberry Pi 4s in the element14 "Happy 10th Birthday!" giveaway. My suggestion was to use the Pi 4 to run Pi-Hole on my network to block unwa...
- 23 Nov 2019
Spooky Halloween Dishonored Mask

guycarver

For Halloween I decided to modify my Dishonored II collectors edition mask to give it glowing eyes that followed people who walked by and looked at it.It's a steampunk style mask with two different shaped eyes solidly connected to the mask. ...
- 7 Nov 2019
An even simpler way to boot from SSD on Raspberry Pi 4

gam3t3ch

So I have been meaning to do an update and found this and its great for anyone not wanting to do it the other method that I had posted about setting up your SSD as a boot drive on the Raspberry Pi 4 check it out. www.youtube.com/watch&nbsp...
- 31 Oct 2019
Lane following rover using Raspberry Pi, MATLAB and Arduino Engineering Kit

madhugovindarajan

Fig 1: Lane following rover Introduction When I hear the term “lane following”, I think about automated assistance system on our cars which ensures that the car stays inside a lane. But what does it take to create such a system? To understand the com...
- 25 Oct 2019
My Raspberry Pi 4 does not boot?

clem57

RecoveryIf your Raspberry Pi 4 will not boot, it is possible that the SPI EEPROM has become corrupted.To check, remove the SD card, disconnect the device from power, then reconnect it. If the green LED does not flash, you will need to reprogram the E...
- 21 Oct 2019
Raspberry Pi 4 Linux Malware detect & ClamAv install

gam3t3ch

So if you plan on using your Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop or any other Raspberry Pi. One thing I cant stress enough if protection if you have a web browser in use and your online you want to make sure that you have some sort of prote...
- 16 Oct 2019
Raspberry Pi 4 no usb after update on SSD hard drive fix with Micro SD Card

gam3t3ch

www.youtube.com/watch You can either check out the video above or check the info below or both! So this morning I decided I would update my raspberry pi. seems there was a ton of firmware updates that needed to be installed in the ne...
- 15 Oct 2019
Raspberry Pi 4B and Gitlab, part 1

koudelad

IntroductionI am one of the winners of a brand new Raspberry Pi 4B https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-93093/l/announcing-our-raspberry-pi-4-giveaway-winners . My project proposal was to try running a Gitlab server https://about.gitlab.com/ ...
- 28 Sep 2019
My Time with the Raspberry Pi 4 as a Desktop

gam3t3ch

So previously, I had wrote a post about my experiences with using the previous versions of the Raspberry Pi as a desktop with multiple version and I enjoyed them as a great addition to using them along side my main PC. Since I was u...
- 22 Sep 2019
Streaming an SD/HD DVB-T channel via HLS on Raspberry Pi4

kk99

Today I have make an initial configuration of Raspberry Pi4 for purpose of streaming an DVB-T live channel via HLS. Basic idea is to use DVB-T USB dongle to receive an MUX with channels. I have used tzap tool to record audio and video PIDs of interes...
- 22 Sep 2019
Raspi 4 CPU Temperature

eric_element14

Just got my new RaspberryPi 4. I’d read about the CPU running hotter than previous models, so I decided to have a look for myself. https://www.elinix.org/RPI_vcgencmd_usage gave details of how to do this. I decided to wrap this up in a Py...
- 17 Sep 2019
Alsa no audio (glitch) issue Pi 4 fix

gam3t3ch

**Small update: [Oct.13.19] Remember to also plug your audio into another speaker system as well. Today I thought I had this issue again so I ran the fix and was getting frustrated that it wasn't working. Turns out that my...
- 14 Sep 2019