Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi: Setting Up Your Own NAS Server

Beginner's Guide to Raspberry Pi: Setting Up Your Own NAS Server

Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi (Part 1) Smart Embedded Apprentice, WeChat Official Account: Smart Embedded Apprentice Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi (Part 1) After the previous article, our Raspberry Pi microcomputer can be used as needed, and based on my actual situation (I have a WD-SSD-1T-2024: ¥500) and needs, I plan to set up a … Read more

LiteOS Raspberry Pi Porting Guide (Part 2)

LiteOS Raspberry Pi Porting Guide (Part 2)

This document describes the porting process of the LiteOS open-source version for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B development board, for reference and learning exchange among developers and testers. Porting Introduction For embedded devices, due to the large differences in chip models and peripherals, and limited resources, IoT operating systems cannot adapt and integrate all … Read more

Building a Raspberry Pi 4B Home Server: A Guide to Setting Up an Open Source Free Jellyfin Private Cinema Using an Idle Laptop

Building a Raspberry Pi 4B Home Server: A Guide to Setting Up an Open Source Free Jellyfin Private Cinema Using an Idle Laptop

Jellyfin is an open-source free private cinema (media management) system that helps us manage the film and television resources on our hard drive and add beautiful posters. Jellyfin can record our playback progress; for instance, if a movie is played to 10 minutes and 20 seconds on device A, it can continue from the same … Read more

How to Operate USB Read and Write with .NET6 and LibUsb on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (Ubuntu 22.04)

How to Operate USB Read and Write with .NET6 and LibUsb on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (Ubuntu 22.04)

Initial Motivation Friends who like electronics and DIY hardware should be familiar with Zhihui Jun, who regularly shares some fun hardware he has made. I was very interested in a desktop robot he previously made called ElectronBot, so I made one myself. At first, I only developed an upper computer software called Electronic Brain Shell, … Read more

Top 10 Mini Computers Under $5

Top 10 Mini Computers Under $5

According to reports from Zhongguancun Online: 20 years ago, computers were obviously expensive and bulky, but now many computers that are only palm-sized can meet mainstream applications, with prices as low as several dozen yuan. Here, we will review those compact, inexpensive, and well-performing mini computers. (Image from pcworld) 1. Raspberry Pi Series The Raspberry … Read more

Raspberry Pi + Mechanical Keyboard = Cool Handheld Computer

Raspberry Pi + Mechanical Keyboard = Cool Handheld Computer

This handheld computer is called Penkēsu, designed by Penk Chen, who refers to it as a “homemade retro-style handheld computer.” The Raspberry Pi Zero 2W serves as the main hardware chip. Personally, I love it because it reminds me of that bizarre scene in early music videos where Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child was sending … Read more

Open Source IMX283 Camera Board for Raspberry Pi

Open Source IMX283 Camera Board for Raspberry Pi

“ OneInchEye: An open-source one-inch CMOS sensor (IMX283) camera board designed for Raspberry Pi.” Overview The OneInchEye project is an open-source camera board designed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 using the IMX283 one-inch sensor. This project aims to provide a high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-use camera module for Raspberry Pi projects. The circuit board … Read more

How to Reduce Power Consumption of Raspberry Pi 5 in Standby Mode by 96%?

How to Reduce Power Consumption of Raspberry Pi 5 in Standby Mode by 96%?

Image1 Raspberry Pi 5 Circuit Layout Many makers know that the Raspberry Pi single-board computer gets stronger with each generation, meaning its computational performance improves, and it has more computing resources. However, despite being stronger, the price, size, and power consumption are still kept as compatible or controlled as possible. In terms of price, Model … Read more

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi B: A Basic Introduction

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi B: A Basic Introduction

The Raspberry Pi (Chinese name: “树莓派”, abbreviated as RPi, or RasPi/RPi) is a credit card-sized computer designed for student computer programming education, and its system is based on Linux. I bought a Raspberry Pi B long ago but never got around to using it. Since I plan to venture into embedded development in the future, … Read more

How to Set Up a Cool Dashboard on Your Raspberry Pi

How to Set Up a Cool Dashboard on Your Raspberry Pi

Pi Dashboard is an open-source IoT device monitoring tool released by the Raspberry Pi Laboratory, currently mainly targeting the Raspberry Pi platform while also being compatible with other Raspberry Pi-like hardware products. You only need to set up a PHP server environment on your Raspberry Pi to easily deploy a Pi Dashboard and monitor the … Read more