Managed to get hold of a Pi Zero ? Here’s how to get started with it… The Pi Zero only has a single micro USB port for connecting peripherals. That can make it a little tricking when trying to get...

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 sess...

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 ...

So for the past few weeks, on and off, I have been focusing on hardware – building a magnificent flying machine – a quadcopter. I bought a build it yourself quadcopter kit from ebay, just for quic...

Short reminder to myself on how to create a new server repo and do the initial push to it from a workstation. On the Server: cd Repositories mkdir Project.git git init –bare On the Workstat...

The first part of this ‘getting things up and running’ series can be found here. In this post I wanted to outline what was required to set up Wi-Fi and to get a Microsoft LifeCam 6000 working, pro...

One of the things I’d been planning on since buying the Raspberry Pi is putting together some sort of robot (for the kids benefit you understand…) Whilst the Pi does have a bunch of GPIO pins that...

After starting with a Raspberry Pi that was just too simple to set up as XMBC media centre for daughter #1 bedroom, it soon became a permanent feature there – meaning, of course, that I needed anot...

I eventually got round to ordering a Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB RAM). As you probably know this is a £25 ($35) computer running a 700MHz ARM processor and capable of decoding displaying HiDef 1080...

If you are anything like me you’ll find yourself using a number of different PCs through a typical week. I have my work laptop, my work Dev machine, my home PC, my netbook and some semi permanent v...