17+ Handy Raspberry Pi Guides

How to Overclock the Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial, we take you through all the steps to setting up an overclock on the Raspberry Pi. You may want to do this because you need the extra performance, or you like to push hardware to its absolute limits.

How to Enable Support for HFS on the Raspberry Pi

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In this tutorial, we take you through all the steps of setting up the HFS filesystem on the Raspberry Pi. It’s perfect if you have some HFS formatted drives that you wish to use on with your Pi. It’s a pretty straightforward tutorial.

How to Install VLC for the Raspberry Pi

Guides, Media

In this guide, I go through the steps of installing the VLC media player to the Raspbian operating system. It’s a super simple process and is perfect if you’re a huge fan of VLC. You can also use it via a GUI or the command line.

How to Setup a Raspberry Pi Static IP Address

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In this tutorial, we go through the process of setting up a static IP. A static IP is ideal if you find yourself needing to connect to the Raspberry Pi a lot as it will always be the same. The tutorial is pretty easy and might make your life a lot easier in the future.

How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian Buster

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In this tutorial, we take you through the process of updating Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian Buster. It’s a relatively straightforward process, but we still recommend that you backup your SD card. We recommend updating as it’s always best to be on the latest release.

Install Nexmon Firmware Patches for the Raspberry Pi

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Learn how to install the Nexmon firmware patches to the Raspbian operating system. These patches are for the broadcom chip and will allow you to place the WiFi into monitor mode. There are also other benefits of installing Nexmon to the Pi.

How to Setup Raspberry Pi Remote Desktop

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In this tutorial, we take you through all the steps to set up the remote desktop protocol (RDP) on the Raspberry Pi. This protocol is extremely handy as it allows you to connect to the Raspberry Pi’s desktop from any client that supports Microsoft’s RDP.

How to Setup Raspberry Pi SSH Keys for Authentication

Getting Started, Guides

This tutorial will take you through all the steps to set up SSH Key authentication on your Raspberry Pi. This is an excellent way to harden the security of your Pi, especially if you use SSH a lot in a public environment and care about the security of your device.

How to change the Repository Mirror on Raspbian

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In this guide, we take a look at the steps to changing the repository mirror on Raspbian. There are a couple of reasons why you may want to do this. The most likely reason is for the speed of downloads. Choosing the closest quality mirror will likely get you the best speed.

How to Partition and Format Drives on Linux

Guides, Linux

Learn how to partition and format drives using the Raspberry Pi or another device running a Linux based operating system. Knowing this process is incredibly handy when setting up an old or new drive and it has the wrong or no partitions.

Raspberry Pi DNS Settings: How to Change the DNS

Getting Started, Guides

This tutorial will take you through all the steps of setting the DNS on the Raspberry Pi. There are many reasons why you may want to change this away from the default. The biggest reasons are for performance and privacy. The biggest reasons are for performance and privacy.

Raspberry Pi Boot from USB

Getting Started, Guides

In this tutorial, we take a look at how to set up booting from a USB drive with the Raspberry Pi. There are many reasons why you may want to do this, such as wanting more storage at a lower price. Great if you want to run a NAS or retro game emulator.

Raspberry Pi Epiphany Browser (Gnome Web)

Browsers

In this Raspberry Pi Epiphany browser tutorial, I go through everything you need to know about this simple web browser. Epiphany is also known as Gnome web due to its integration with the Gnome desktop. Either name is fine for when talking about the browser. If you love playing around with different browsers, then you […]

How to Setup ExpressVPN on the Raspberry Pi

Guides, Network

In this Raspberry Pi ExpressVPN tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps of installing ExpressVPN. It’s a pretty straightforward process that will result in your network traffic being securely anonymized. ExpressVPN is yet another large VPN provider that is widely praised. There are no activity logs, connection logs and they’re based in the […]

Why these Guides

You will find that in these guides we take a look at a lot of the basics such as SSH, FTP, port forwarding, and much more.

A lot of these guides can also be applied to any Linux system and not just the Pi so if you're looking to learn Linux then these should hopefully come in handy.

We're continually adding more guides to this page so be sure to check back in the future.

We hope these guides will help you understand and learn a lot more about the concepts of Linux, networking, programming and the Raspberry Pi itself.

As we mentioned above this page contains all the Raspberry Pi guides that may or may not be directly related to the actual Pi. A perfect example is the transformation of photos into a time-lapse while you use the Pi to capture the photos this guide just teaches you how to use Premiere Pro or Avidemux.

If you’re just starting out with the Raspberry Pi, then you should check out all the guides we have on getting started with the Raspberry Pi. It also has all the information you will need to know to get your Pi up and running.

If you haven’t already bought a Pi, then you might be confused by all the different models. I strongly recommend taking a look at your guide on What is a Raspberry PI.

If you’re already familiar with the basics of the Pi and want to get into some easy projects, then you should check out our Raspberry Pi projects for beginners. There are also plenty of intermediate and many advanced projects on the way.

If you’re after the full list of Raspberry Pi projects, then be sure to check out that page. If you are ready to jazz your Pi up a little with some Raspberry Pi accessories be sure to check out our guides on Pi cases, the Kano kit and much more.

We hope you enjoy all the Raspberry Pi guides and also the other guides on this page. Be sure to check back in the future as we will be adding lots more guides covering even more topics than what we already do.

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