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This guide will show you how to upgrade your Raspberry Pi OS installation from Buster to Bullseye using straightforward steps. Bullseye introduces several improvements over Buster. One of the new features is the KMS video driver.
In this project, you will learn how to set up the SANE software On your Raspberry Pi. This software is what will allow us to connect and use a printer from the Pi. You can even turn your device into a scanner server.
This guide will teach you how to set up and use a screensaver on the Raspberry Pi using a simple GUI interface. Screensavers have a variety of use cases, such as for privacy, burn-in prevention, and even decoration.
In this guide, you will learn how you can disable screen blanking on your Raspberry Pi. Screen blanking stops video from being displayed from the Pi. This feature is mainly used for privacy and preserving energy.
In this guide, you will learn how to set, list, and use environment variables on Linux. These variables are essential to Linux and help define the current working environment. Using these, you can store bits of information related to the current system or user.
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.
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.