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Raspberry Pi Shutdown Button

Raspberry Pi Shutdown Button

As everyone at some point will recognise the Raspberry Pi doesn’ t include any kind of shutdown button. So the only way to power it off is by unplugging it from the power supply. To make sure you get no corruption of your data files on the SD card you should shutdown the Raspberry before […]

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Record Infrared Codes of Any Remote Control Unit for Usage with Linux Infrared Remote Control LIRC on Raspberry Pi

Record Infrared Codes of Any Remote Control Unit for Usage with Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) on Raspberry Pi

Introduction The remote controls that are orphaned when the device they control stopped working are reusable on your Raspberry Pi. After completing this instructable, you may be interested in trying out the following instructables: Reuse Unwanted Remote Control to Shutdown and Reboot Raspberry Pi Reuse Unwanted Remote to Launch Graphical Application in Raspberry Pi Scope

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Apple Pi Media Centre

Apple Pi Media Centre

Hello there, this is just my step by step on how i made my raspberry pi apple case! in short, it is an apple airport extreme case which i have gutted and replaced the circuit boards with a raspberry pi and a powered usb hub. i used; Apple Airport Extreme (broken one i picked up

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Installing and running PICPgm on Raspberry Pi

Installing and running PICPgm on Raspberry Pi

Installation Steps The following commands download and install PICPgm on your Raspberry Pi: cd ~ mkdir picpgm_install cd picpgm_install wget http://picpgm.picprojects.net/download/picpgm_v2810.tar.gz tar xzvf picpgm_v2810.tar.gz sudo ./install.sh cp pgmifcfg.xml ~ Note: For PICPgm versions till 2.8.1.0, a copy of pgmifcfg.xml has to be in your home directory. For newer versions this will no longer be required.

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Warming to the Pi and Python

Warming to the Pi and Python

I’ve had a Raspberry Pi since Christmas, but haven’t done much with it up till now.  That’s all changed since I moved house.  Getting to grips with a new central heating system, I find that (for reasons too dull to list here) I need to monitor and control it rather more flexibly than I can

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