Using Raspberry Pi for the first time. Exploring what can be done with a Raspberry Pi and some related peripherals.
Getting a sd card with a copy of raspbian installed is very convenient for beginners.
If you are planning to use your newly updated and changed version of Raspbian for all your other RPIs then you need to clone the SD card. There is a ...
read moreRaspberry Pi sometimes might cause trouble while copying/moving files into pen drives/flash drives. It might copy some files and for the rest its gives an error message stating ...
read moreSetting up remote desktop for raspberry pi and viewing that on windows was very simple. sudo apt-get install xrdp and it can be viewed from windows remote desktop. Reference article ...
read moreWe followed this tutorial to setup the wifi - http://www.maketecheasier.com/setup-wifi-on-raspberry-pi/
You need atleast a class 4 SD card. Be careful of really cheap SD cards.
If you dont have an SD card with a version of Raspberry Pi, you can follow this tutorial to install Raspbian on a SD card
PiFace emulator was not opening. It was giving some random python error. Error seems to say it had something to do with python3 and python2 being on the same comp ...
read morehttps://github.com/piface/pifacedigital-emulator - This works great.
The links that we used to setup PiFace
http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-up-a-PiFace-with-your-Raspberry-Pi/
https://github.com/piface/pifacedigitalio - This one had an example code that could turn on LEDs
Best tutorial for setting up SSH - https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-6-using-ssh?view=all
A tutorial specific to getting started with piface http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-up-a-PiFace-with-your-Raspberry-Pi/
Explains emulator also.
The network that we were on had proxy on it. While ssh-ing since my laptop and the Pi was on the same network, proxy was not an issue, but when ...
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