Month: September 2012

Backing Up the Raspberry Pi Blog

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It would be a shame to lose everything I have put into the Raspberry Pi blog so it’s time to put in a backup regime. Strategy The Raspberry Pi blog is located both both ‘/var/www/raspberrypi/’ and in the serendipity-db catalog of the local MySQL database. We will need to backup up both to completely cover … Read more

Wi-Fi Pi

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Putting the Raspberry Pi into an appliance means that it will not have access to an Ethernet connection and will require USB WiFi. Which USB Wifi Device? Adding USB WiFi to a Linux device is generally quite easy however there are limitations which apply to non PC (non x86) applications such as the ARM11 based … Read more

Raspberry Latte

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What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi with a Breville 820ES Espresso machine? A Raspberry Latte! There has been a long standing symbiotic relationship between engineers and coffee!! So it only seems natural that a candidate project for my espresso machine is a Raspberry Pi brain transplant. Of course I’ll keep the … Read more

Pi For Dessert

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Welcome to my Raspberry Pi! Last week I ordered a new toy, one little Raspberry Pi and this blog will be dedicated to all the things I do with it. As can be expected the first thing I did was to put a standard image on an SD card and bring it to life. It … Read more