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What could be more annoying than LEDs? It consumes nothing, it makes light at night and it tends to point out things that we would like to keep discreet. On the Raspberry Pi's camera module, the LED manages to do all of this at once. We will therefore see in this tutorial how to deactivate […]

How to control the Raspberry Pi when it is not possible to plug it into a keyboard, nor to connect it to the internet. We will see how to use the serial connection of the Raspberry Pi in order to control it from a PC. The necessary equipment To be able to connect in series […]

If you're a little familiar with online privacy issues, you're probably familiar with the Tor Project which aims to create an encrypted and anonymous internet network. In this tutorial we will see how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Tor router to connect to over Wi-Fi to encrypt all your traffic and hide your […]

You have probably already seen that the Raspberry Pi has two LEDs directly soldered to the board, one red and one green. But did you know that it is possible to control this green LED, and sometimes even the red one? In this tutorial, we are going to see how we can use the green […]

Sometimes we need to run a program or a command line when our Raspberry Pi starts up. This is particularly the case when we manufacture an object for home automation, and we want to automatically launch a program when the object is connected. In this tutorial we will see a very simple way to launch […]

If you have a computer that is not running Linux then you faced a problem, you cannot read the partition rootfs SD cards from your Raspberry Pi from your PC! We will see how you can read Linux partitions, and therefore rootfs, from a Windows or Mac OS system. The material used To be able […]

In computing, the user interface problem is probably one of the most complicated. That, naming things, and invalidating a cache … The easiest way to present information to a human from a computer is usually to use vision. But for that you need a screen, which is bulky, expensive and therefore not very suitable for […]

This tutorial is the third part of a file devoted to discovering electronics with the Raspberry Pi. If you have not read it, I advise you to consult the first tutorial to control an LED with the Raspberry Pi as well as the second tutorial to use an RFID reader with the Raspberry Pi. When […]

I'm sure you've needed to transfer files from your PC to your Raspberry Pi over the network before. If so, chances are you had to install an FTP server. And yet there was a much easier way … In this tutorial we will see how to transfer files from our computer to our Raspberry Pi […]

Tutorials often ask you to connect to the IP address of the Raspberry Pi, but how do you find that IP address? Let's see how to find the local IP address of your Raspberry Pi in 3 different ways, with or without a GUI. Note that when a tutorial tells you about the IP address […]