The “Rainbow Screen of Death” aka “Rainbow screen at boot” is that dreaded Rainbow screen that appears and doesn’t disappear when you boot up your Raspberry Pi. It gets stuck on the Rainbow. Its arrival is never a good sign. Whilst there is a multitude of reasons for this to happen: Like outdated firmware on […]
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** Updated for Raspberry Pi 4 ** This used to be relatively straightforward, but with move from Raspbian Wheezy to Raspbian Jessie, (and then Raspbian Stretch and Buster) things changed. Add to this, the newer Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 family with new hardware and the whole thing became a bit of a Dog’s Breakfast and issues with
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The original Sleepy Pi was introduced over 2 1/2 years ago and has been doing sterling service ever since, finding it’s way to all four corners of the globe. With the 26-pin connector it is compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi. However, with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi B+ a new 40-pin GPIO
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Anthony in Good’ol Blighty has built an Automated Recording Unit Pi (ARUPI) for recording Soundscapes in Ecology research. He’s created a detailed Instructable that shows how he’s built it. An ARUPI can be used to : monitor the birds in your garden or just to make nice recordings of the dawn chorus, without having to
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James from Down Under (a Land of Plenty) has build a Remote Camera System for monitoring water supplies for livestock in remote areas of farms, thus saving the farmer a lot of time and travelling. The system wakes up once a day, takes a photo of the water trough, sends it to the farmer and then goes
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It’s been a busy time at the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently, with not one but two new boards released. Firstly the A+ arrived which is an updated Model A, but in a new square form factor and with the extra GPIO that the B+/2 sport. Next was the release of the Raspberry Pi 2 which
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Chad over at Manifold has produced a fantastic new version of their Feeder Tweeter. It’s a solar powered Raspberry Pi connected to a camera and motion sensor that tweets a every time a bird feeds. You can see the latest pictures over at FeederTweeter.net It’s an upgrade of the original Feeder Tweeter 1.6 and now uses a
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A few weeks ago the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry PI Model B+ which is an improved version of the Model B. What are the major changes and can you still use the Sleepy Pi with the Model B+? Firstly, the most obvious differences are in the form factor. The B+ and B are
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