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In this guide, you will be learning how to install the Python interpreter to your Raspberry Pi and how to use it. If you are just getting started with programming, Python is the perfect language as it is relatively easy to use.
This guide will explain the benefits of installing and using a 64-bit operating system to the Raspberry Pi. The most significant advantage of 64-bit is the large address size. This allows programs to fully utilize your available RAM.
In this tutorial you will learn how to run the official Steam client on a Raspberry Pi. To get the official client to run we will have to utilize an x86 emulator such as box86. While it runs, the Steam client can be fairly unstable.
In this project, you will be learning how to install the open-source monitoring software called Zabbix to your Raspberry Pi. This monitoring software has a level of functionality you would expect from enterprise software but is entirely free.
This tutorial will show you how easy it is to install Nginx on an Ubuntu system. Nginx is one of the most used web servers in the world. It has become the backbone for some of the biggest websites in the world, including Netflix, WordPress.org, and more. In fact, we even use Nginx to run […]
In this guide, you will be learning some of the ways that you can rename a file or directory on a Linux system. There are two ways that we will be focusing on. One is the mv command which is excellent for simple renames. The other is the Perl rename tool.
In this guide we will be teaching you some of the easy ways to kill a process on a Linux based system. This tutorial touches on three commands that are designed to terminate processes by sending what is called a kill signal. These three commands are kill, pkill and killall.
In this guide you will be learning how easy it is to list all of the users on a Linux-based system. Listing users is as easy as reading the contents of the passwd file. We will also show you some simple ways to filter the returned data or check for a specific user.
With this straightforward guide, you will learn all about how strings are handled within the Python programming language. Learn how to define, format, and modify strings. Learning about strings is a critical part of any programming language.
In this Python tutorial, we will be walking you through the steps on how to use arrays. Throughout this guide, you will learn how to make use of the array module in Python to create and manipulate type constrained arrays.
Learn how to calculate series resistance in this easy to follow guide. We take you through an example of how to quickly calculate the total resistance with. There is also a calculator that you can make use of to verify your own calculations minimal effort.
In this guide, we go through all the basics of voltage dividers and anything else that you need to know about them. It’s a crucial part of electronic circuits that I highly recommend that you take the time to learn and understand.
This tutorial takes you through all the steps to connecting the APA102 RGB LED strip to the Arduino. We also guide you through the process of writing some code to be able to control the LED strip. It’s an excellent project if you love playing with lights.
Learn how to set up the ADXL345 accelerometer with the Arduino. It’s a cool sensor that will be handy in quite a few tutorials, especially ones where movement is involved. We make use of an Adafruit library, which makes this tutorial significantly easier.