In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to connect, code and calibrate a Capacitive Soil Moisture sensor with Raspberry PI Pico using MicroPython. If you are both a maker or a professional farmer, your smart watering project will always start from measuring the ground moisture. With the Capacitive Soil Moisture sensor and Raspberry […]
This guide will provide us with a very simple way to have a personal cloud with Raspberry Pi. We’ll use a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, with an external USB drive that will store all our data. Our USB disk will be formatted in this procedure in order to assure that it will work. So
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to configure the automount of USB storage on Raspberry PI (with Raspberry PI OS Lite) at boot or when plugged in to be ready to use. While Raspberry PI OS Desktop has the ability to automatically mount external USB devices on plug in, the Lite version
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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to run Raspberry PI OS Lite GUI applications from a Windows PC. Sometimes it can be useful for a number of purpose to execute application with GUI in a Raspberry PI OS Lite version. With Xmin you can remote to Windows PC an X11 window, getting
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As seen in my previous post (Connecting Raspberry PI Zero W to Arduino only via terminal), we can easily control an Arduino board from Raspberry PI OS Lite with the help of arduino-cli. However, if you want to add more functionalities to your Arduino board you will need to import external libraries. In this post,
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to wire, configure and calibrate a magnetometer (HMC5883L) with Raspberry PI computer boards. Please note that if you want to use the Raspberry PI Pico instead, you can refer to my Magnetometer Compass with Raspberry PI Pico: GY-271 HMC5883L wiring and use with MicroPython tutorial. HMC5883L
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install BpyTOP on Raspberry PI. Monitoring a computer resources can help to better understand issues when your device is going to be slow or freezing. BpyTOP on Raspberry PI makes available an enhanced and interactive resources monitoring tool that you will love Before starting, if
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install EarnApp on Raspberry PI and make it work to start earning by simply sharing your internet bandwidth and a very few resources. In the past, I’ve been struggling on how to earn from one my Raspberry PIs which is always powered on to run
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