In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to get Google Trends data with a cheap Raspberry PI and Pytrends library. For bloggers and website owners, organic trends are all. Search results show people interests and drive content production. Being first to write about a topic can be a great SEO advantage. Getting Google […]
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to setup a private Git web portal in a cheap board, installing Gogs on Raspberry PI. I’ll use a Raspberry PI Zero W, but this tutorial works also with newer Raspberry PI boards. Code development requires continuous reworks, fixes, updates and downgrades. Managing it with Git
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Because of their low price, mini button switches are useful for many purposes. We have already analyzed how they work (ref. Using mini Switch Button with Raspberry PI and Python) and a funny use case (ref. Reaction Game (v2) with Raspberry PI and Mini Button Switch). One more way to use these buttons allows people
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Raspberry PI performaces are deeply impacted from storage speed. To figure it out, you can imagine for example your SD card as a PC hard disk. Changing mechanical HDD with an SDD storage will drastically increase operating system performances as OS can read and write faster programs code and files. For this reason I refer
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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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