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Tag: Raspberry Pi
XBian – Debian-based media center Linux distribution
XBian is a lightweight Debian-based media center distribution for Raspberry Pi and other ARM devices, with Kodi and rolling updates.
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PiPedal – guitar effect pedal for Raspberry Pi
PiPedal turns a Raspberry Pi into a guitar effects pedal that you can configure and control from a phone, tablet, or desktop browser.
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camera-streamer – low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems
camera-streamer is a high-performance, low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems and similar single-board computers.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio
We maintain a roundup of the finest internet radio software. Let’s take a look at the top entries from a Raspberry Pi 5 perspective.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player
Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?
A question I get asked a fair bit is whether the Raspberry Pi 5 represents good value to purchase as a desktop PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Improve Wi-Fi
Let’s try to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s Wi-Fi performance (transfer speed and latency) with a USB 3.0 adapter from BrosTrend.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: 2.5Gbps Networking
In this article I explore a simple upgrade to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s network speed.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Ollama GUI
Did you know that even a Raspberry Pi 5 is able to run LLMs locally? Even better, the developer of Pi-Apps has produced an optimized install script which makes it Raspberry Pi 5 friendly.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC
This is a series of articles on the Raspberry Pi 5 focusing on using this single board computer as a desktop PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Installing Software
Explore my favourite ways of installing new software on the Raspberry Pi 5.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: PiGro – system configuration tool
PiGro is a free and open source system configuration tool that streamlines managing your Raspberry Pi settings from one convenient location.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: raspi-config
raspi-config is a script that offers an easy way to start configuring the Raspberry Pi 5.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Overclocking
I rerun some benchmarks, this time comparing an overclocked Raspberry Pi 5 to an Intel N100 Mini PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Benchmarking
What’s the rationale of benchmarking the Pi 5 against an N100? Simple! This series is looking at using the Pi 5 as a desktop machine.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Passive Cooling the Right Way
Passively cool the Raspberry Pi 5 the right way. Use the case as a heatsink. No fan noise to interrupt your concentration.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Script to use a ZRAM swapdrive
Installing a script to enable ZRAM and optimize its effectiveness on Raspberry Pi computers. It’s very useful for low RAM Pi models.
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Photobooth is photobooth software for the Raspberry Pi and PC
Photobooth is software is intended to run on a Raspberry Pi 2 and upwards, but it can run on any Linux PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Increase Swap Memory Size
In this article I explain how to increase the swap file. This helps performance on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM or less.
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