OctoPrint Hologram Dependency Fix

OctoPrint has a sweet plugin called octoprint-hologram which overlays a ‘hologram’ of the 3D print while your printing. If you attempt to install this from the plugin install in OctoPrint, this may fail and the issue is a dependency issue that Numpy requires you’ll need to manually add. I found the below solution here: https://github.com/MarkSlat/OctoPrint-Hologram/issues/1#issuecomment-2119084078 …

Windows and Mac Incompatible because of APIs and Hardware Limitations

Decoding Operating System Compatibility: Understanding the Intricacies of Cross-Platform Software Interaction

This article was heavily inspired using ChatGPT and Bing although 99% of the ideas were more or less derived from ChatGPT. Introduction: Have you ever faced frustration when trying to run a Windows program on your Mac, only to hit a dead end? Or perhaps you’ve pondered over the obstacles standing in the way of …

Raspberry Pi Pi-Hole

Setting up a Pi-Hole (DNS) Server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (Stand Alone App)

Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-hole This means that if set up correctly, all the devices on your network can benefit from the fact that some of the URLs your devices …

Installing motion on a Raspberry Pi and managing the generated files

The purpose of this article is to help you quickly install and configure the motion package on a Raspberry Pi (3 or 4). This should also theoretically work for several Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary, etc. Per their website, “Motion is a highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of …

Booting a Raspberry Pi from USB 3.0 Port Plugged in Device (e.g. SSD, HDD, FlashDrive)

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 …

How to get the Temperature of a Raspberry Pi via CLI

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’