Raspberry Pi FTP Server

In this project we are going to set up a FTP server using vsftpd. This is one of the fastest and most secure FTP server for Linux. This will take us around 10 minutes to complete and is solely consists of typing commands to install and configure software. By the…

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Time-lapse Video with a Webcam

This project will show you how to use a standard webcam to create a time-lapse video recorder – great for watching the whole day go by in a few minutes. For this we’ll need a Raspberry Pi, a USB webcam (and a portable power source if you want to position…

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Raspberry Pi P6 Reset Hack

I’ve been trying to get some code running on my Pi 2. The code has been ‘problematic’ to get running, and I’m running into frequent hangs on the Pi where I cannot initiate a new SSH or console session. It’s also complicated because the Pi is outside in the garage…

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Starting Pi Starter

Okay, first post… It’s been a manic week at Pi Starter HQ, getting everything set up (domain names, hosting, websites, themes, etc) and planning out what things should look like (menus, sidebars, footers etc) but most of that is done, or planned now. I’ve also been putting a lot of…

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Gradle Generate Release Notes from Git

I thought my ‘Gradle Generate Release Notes’ script might be useful for others, so here you go: If you are using the built in Gradle tool for Android Studio and you want to automagically generate release notes (or a list of commit messages) from Git then this little script might help (whilst it is pretty specific…

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