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Raspberry Pi Internet Monitor

Raspberry Pi Internet Monitor

In my house, you can often hear someone shouting “Is the Internet down?” Sometimes it is but most of the time it’s a “user problem”. I decided to build a gizmo that would make it easy to tell whether the internet connection was working or not. Hence the Raspberry Pi Internet Monitor. The Raspberry Pi

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RDM6300 RFID with PIC18 Dev Board

RDM6300 RFID with PIC18 Dev Board

After getting a simple LED-blink program working, I moved on to the RFID portion of my project.  It seemed to be the simplest of the three major parts (RFID, SD card, and MP3) because it’s basically just configuring the UART to receive and check the card IDs.  I’m using the RDM6300 UART RFID Module from ITeadStudio, which

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Telegram on Raspberry Pi

Telegram on Raspberry Pi

In one of our last tutorials we have installed WhatsApp on Raspberry. Whatsapp at the moment is definitely the most famous app for messaging services, but there are also many alternatives although little known. One of these is Telegram. “Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.

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Raspberry Pi Arcade

Raspberry Pi Arcade

A few months ago, I decided that I wanted an all-in-one arcade machine. I started looking for some info on how to build one, and immediately, the name “Raspberry Pi” came up. This Christmas, I got a couple of them. I started experimenting with a few operating systems, and Retropie became my favorite retro gaming

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