In a previous article we saw how to use a mini button switch with Raspberry PI. In this tutorial we are going to apply what we have learned to create a small reaction game. It uses cheap circuit components (mini button switch, resistors, LEDs and wirings), Raspberry PI and a little of Python programming. Differently […]
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Raspberry PI GPIO ports are a really useful resource and allow PI to interface real world with a wide number of external sensors. However, some projects requires so many connections with many sensors/devices that the rich 40-PIN GPIO can become limited. In these cases you can get help from a simple and cheap electronic piece:
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We are all getting used to beautiful email clients. Smartphones, computers, and tablets are plenty of open source email management software to make life really easy and communicate with high-value tools. But sometimes, when some nerds (like me) love working with a terminal, an email client inside your terminal can save looking continuously on another
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to setup a VPN server with a cheap Raspberry PI Zero W using PiVPN and send certificates via email. This guide applies also to newer Raspberry PI boards. Requests for accessing home or mall office services from remote devices increased in last years as open source
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Tilt ball switch are small and cheap electronic sensors able to detect inclination. While not being as accurate like accelerometers, they are small, inexpensive and easy to use. For this reason tilt ball switches are popular for toys and gadgets. Tilt ball switch are usually made of an internal cavity with a free conductive mass
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Raspberry PI boards can perform very well to provide complete web server functions with very small budgets. They also have very low power consumption, so many people can start a web page at affordable costs. LAMP is a server composed of the following elements (each one composing the LAMP acronym): Besides installing LAMP server to
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Email communication remained one of most used media even with raising of social networks and instant messaging services. It is free, it is unlimited and it can be configured to send complex messages. An addictional usage is with IoT devices, sending mails when defined thresholds are triggered. Quite everyone owns an email address and can
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With the increasing hardware variety of monitor / TV, using Raspberry PI with a different HDMI monitor or TV can lead to video issues from first boot. In these cases, both Raspberry PI OS Lite and Desktop distributions can suffer problems in showing their interfaces on screen, resulting in unusable video. This kind of problem
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