Infrared sensors are really common to devices which need to be controlled from a remote within reduced distances. Typical applications are in remoting TV, media center, robots, air conditioning systems, etc. With the growth of mass production, their prices have plummeted and can be found on e-commerce websites. Linux systems have a spread package called […]
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The biggest question for Raspberry PI Foundation boards user comes when choosing the Operating System to use. There are many OSes available for all models, each one fitting the best specific needs. This article lists the main alternative Raspberry PI OS Usually, all operating systems can be installed easily by getting their image file (.img
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Raspbian Lite users work every day with terminal commands without graphical environment. But Linux world is plenty of funny tweaks that can make terminal really funny also for newer users. First action is, as always, installing Raspberry PI OS Lite or installing Raspberry PI OS Desktop in your Raspberry PI. Some funny examples are listed
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Every Raspberry PI project starts always from OS installation with SD card flashing. There are several ways to flash SD image for Raspberry PIs, most common being Balena Etcher and Win32DiskImager. Recently Raspberry PI Foundation released its first Raspberry PI imager to prepare SD cards. Trying it is a must for Raspberry PI lovers. Install
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Derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS used yum as a package manager up to version 7. CentOS 8 adopts dnf. For people wanting to test different Linux distributions in our credit card-sized computer, installing CentOS in Raspberry PI is a valid alternative enabling you to access a different repository from
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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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In this tutorial I will guide you in configuring your Raspberry Pi weather station to collect temperature data from Arduino (with DHT11 sensor) and send data with Blynk server to your smartphone app, getting warnings on thresholds overcoming. One of most common electronics projects is creating a Weather Station also able to send temperature and
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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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