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Bluetooth - Installing and Using Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi
Adding Bluetooth to your Raspberry Pi is a really cheap and simple way of communicating with your Raspberry Pi, allowing you to use a Bluetooth keyboard that you may have...
Alternative Raspberry Pi Operating Systems
The original Raspberry Pi has always had a few different operating systems (OSs) available, albeit most of them based on Linux. With the release of the Raspberry Pi 2 a few...
How to use the ModMyPi Serial HAT
Use with the Raspberry Pi 3 and Zero W To get serial working over GPIOs 14 & 15 you have two options. Disable Bluetooth completely or move Bluetooth to the...
Backing up and Restoring your Raspberry Pi's SD Card
As with all computers, it is a good idea to back up your Raspberry Pi's SD (or microSD) card from time to time; I'm just going to call them 'SD...
Formatting and Mounting a USB Drive from a Terminal Window
You can partition and format a USB memory stick or hard drive from a terminal window on the Raspberry Pi. This removes ALL information from your memory stick/hard drive, so make...
Remote Raspberry Pi Access - VNC
What is Remote Access? 'Remote Access' is a way of accessing one computer from the other. There are a few different ways to do this. The most basic is from...
Adding a Real Time Clock to your Raspberry Pi
When you switch on your PC or Mac, do you have to change its time? Highly unlikely! Do you have to on your Raspberry Pi? Possibly. Each time your Raspberry...
Finding out what is installed on your Raspberry Pi (and installing more)
Your Raspberry Pi has lots of applications already installed, like Minecraft, Mathematica, and the browser. And there are a lot of 'libraries'. Linux programmers don't like writing code when they can use...
Updating Raspbian on your microSD for the Raspberry Pi 2
So, you have bought yourself a Raspberry Pi 2 to supplement your previous Raspberry Pi, but you want to use the same microSD card as the old Raspberry Pi? The...
How to Mount an External Hard Drive on the Raspberry Pi
This is a short guide on how to connect an External Hard Drive to the Raspberry Pi! Most external Hard Drives are quite juicy and will require a USB Hub...
How to make Python programs executable
How to make Python programs executable Normally, in order to run a Python program you have to tell the Python software to open the file. However it is possible...
How to setup a static IP address on your Raspberry Pi
So, you want to connect remotely to your Raspberry Pi? For that you’ll need its IP address! There are two main forms of IP address, dynamic and static. By default,...
