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Create Network-Wide Automated Protection for Your Home Server

Two tools will help a home server start off strong and open up new avenues to explore through Ansible automation and setting up a local DNS within Pi-hole.

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DIY Print Server with a Raspberry Pi

I recently used Raspberry Pi to make a DIY Print Server for my and my partner’s Macs. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I set it up.

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Building a Siri/iOS HomeKit-Enabled Garage Door Control with Raspberry Pi – Part 2: Software

Software installation and code for controlling the door of my Raspberry Pi-enabled garage door opening home automation system.

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Setting Up a Raspberry Pi without a Monitor or Keyboard

There are a lot of how-to's online for setting up a Raspberry Pi without monitor or keyboard, but none of them are simple or straightforward. This will be.

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Using the Raspberry Pi as a Simple Current and Power Meter

I needed to fairly accurately measure current and power consumption of a handful of parts in real time. I found a solution using a Raspberry Pi.

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GardenPi: Sensing with the Pi

How to read analog light and moisture signals using your Raspberry Pi, for gardening bliss.

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GardenPi: Garden Care with Raspberry Pi

Monitoring and automating your gardening work with a Raspberry Pi.

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Talking SPI on Raspberry Pi

Two ways to communicate using SPI on the Raspberry Pi.

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Inexpensive Ethernet JTAG Adapter with Raspberry Pi and OpenOCD

You can then plug the programmer into the Pi, connect a debugger to the OpenOCD instance, and debug your firmware remotely!

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Optimizing SQLite on Raspberry Pi

A few experiments to optimize SQLite for use with Raspberry Pi.

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Wireless Communication Between Raspberry Pi and Your Computer

A Raspberry Pi wireless configuration that broadcasts an ad-hoc network and allows you to easily connect with computers.

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Writing C on Raspberry Pi with Test-Driven Development

How to write C code on your dev machine but build the code on the Pi, removing the need for a cross-compiler and simplifies getting back the test results.