Booting your Raspberry Pi from the SD Card can be slow and SD Card’s aren’t the most long lasting forms of media for physical data retention. Neither are NVME SSD’s but their write speeds are really good. To set up your Raspberry Pi to boot from USB, the details can be summarized as: Prerequisites Assuming …
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To get the temperature of a Raspberry Pi, simply run this script in a terminal /usr/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp That’s it! Put it in a script, run it alone in the CLI, or create an alias so you’re not having to type it every time. For instance, a simple alias would be: alias pitemp = ‘/usr/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp’
In short, I had some big files inside folders I needed to copy from one directory to another and wanted to know what the progress. This immediately took me to this article and I’m simply sharing the command here. rsync –info=progress2 -auvz /path_to_source_directory/ /somewhere/destination_directory/ This will display the progress with some information like write speed. Really helpful. …
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This is more of a bookmark for me if I ever forget. If you have an MP4 file and need to convert it to an WAV or other formats, download ffmpeg and run the following command: 1 ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.wav Source: stackoverflow
I’ve hit a point in my life where I think it’s fun to pretend like everything is a computer. In doing so, I like to come up with analogies that describe the inner workings of a computer as if it was something else. In this post, I’m going to try my best to describe a …
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You came here because you want the best mayonnaise. This is my father’s recipe (original here) plus some variations I’ve added to make it closer to some I’ve had in stores. Let’s get to it. Ingredients: Instructions: That’s literally it. If you want it spicier, add some spice to it like peppers or hot sauce. …
Here’s a short breakdown for you to use when looking to learn how to code (websites or use computers more technically than just opening up Chrome and surfing the web) Just something to reference if you need to go back to it. Useful Apps: Microsoft VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/This is what I learned to do websites when …
Hey everyone, today we’re going through the initial setup of an Arduino Nano that I had received as a gift from a friend. This is a simple tutorial where we’ll be loading up a script (built into the software) in Ubuntu in order to make an LED light fade in and out. I’m basically writing …
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[Update] SETI is in Hibernation. Per their website: We are no longer distributing tasks. The SETI@home message boards will continue to operate, and we’ll continue working on the back-end data analysis. Maybe we’ll even find ET!Thanks to everyone for your support over the years. We encourage you to keep crunching for science. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Introduction The purpose of …
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