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The Raspberry Pi might sound like dessert, but it's actually a credit card–sized computer changing the world of DIY tech. First launched in 2012 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it was designed to make ...

So, you’re thinking about getting into smart home stuff, huh? It can seem a bit much at first, but it’s actually pretty doable. We’re going to look at setting up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3, ...

What if you could transform a palm-sized computer into the brain of your next big project, without needing an engineering degree? The Raspberry Pi 5, the latest in the beloved Raspberry Pi series, is ...

For those who love astronomy, both the joy and difficulty of the activity are sitting by your telescope for long hours, continually checking and adjusting it. You may also juggle different software, ...

Setup: A Raspberry Pi (RPi5HA) with a wired LAN connection was configured as a Tailscale subnet router and exit node. Test on Wi-Fi: From a mobile device connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the ...

There’s a new, tiny Raspberry Pi powered handheld on the scene, dubbed the GamerCard, designed for retro gaming. The GamerCard is the brainchild of Grant Sinclair, nephew of the man behind the ...

Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole ...

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