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Building a Linux server with an Asus Tinker Board

Posted Friday 28 April 2017 20:30 Page View Counter 14272

For several years, we have been using a Raspberry Pi as a small Linux server for monitoring our solar heating system and power usage throughout the house. While the Raspberry Pi has been perfectly suitable for the tasks it has been given, we...

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Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Barcode Scanner Part 2

Posted Sunday 23 April 2017 21:19 Page View Counter 2618

This is the second part in an ongoing project to build a wireless barcode scanner based on the Raspberry Pi Zero. View part one here: Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Barcode Scanner Part 1 and part three here: Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Barcode...

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Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Barcode Scanner Part 1

Posted Sunday 15 January 2017 18:44 Page View Counter 2239

This blog post is part one of a new project we have been working on in our spare time for the past few weeks, a new Raspberry Pi Zero based wireless barcode scanner with a touch screen interface. Part Two of the project is at http://www.briandorey.com/post/Raspberry-Pi-Zero-Handheld-Barcode-Scanner-Part-2 and...

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Raspberry Pi 3 UART Boot Overlay Part Two

Posted Monday 14 March 2016 23:03 Page View Counter 7386

Updated on 19th March 2016 for new Raspbian Jessie release changes. Following on from the previous post about the Raspberry Pi 3 UART overlay workaround there is now a new solution to enable the serial console and serial port on the GPIO pins which...

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Raspberry Pi model A vs Model B

Posted Wednesday 06 February 2013 17:36 Page View Counter 594

The new Raspberry Pi model A arrived today after a mixup where Farnell sent us another model B yesterday. The new Model A on the left with a Com Pi board and Wifi dongle. Older Model B on the right. As the new Model A is supposed to use a lot...

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ADC Pi Raspberry Pi I2C Analog to Digital Converter boards available to buy online

Posted Friday 14 September 2012 00:31 Page View Counter 2337

Update April 2015 Since the launch of this first ADC board for the Raspberry Pi it has been replaced with the ADC Pi models and we have also mde variants of the ADC board with a ADC Differential Pi which is a 8 channel 18 bit analogue...

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