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Raspberry Pi Arcade
I grew up in the dawn of arcade games, and living at the coast meant that I had access to a couple of decent arcades where I could play all the classics as they came out – Space Invaders, Galaxian, Defender, Moon Cresta, Galaga, Phoenix, Star Wars, Tron and Tempest all stick in my mind, […]
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Tags: advancemame, advmame, arcade, elsa, game, gcc, MAME, Raspberry Pi, raspbian, Raspi, RPi, sound
Raspberry Pi Alarm
I set $son0 a summer holiday challenge of building an alarm system that would send an email (and it seems that I’m not alone). I was pleased to see that the latest edition (#4) of Magpi has an alarm project so we set about building it together. The hardware came together pretty nicely, but the software […]
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Tags: alarm, GPIO, howto, python, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi
Recovering my Azure VM
A few weeks back I wrote a howto that utilised the 90 day free trial on Azure to build OpenELEC for the Raspberry Pi. Days later my account was disabled as I’d exhausted the (rather low) limit for I/O within the trial. Since I’d only used 5-6p of extra stuff I went through the process […]
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Tags: Azure, disk, DNS, Microsoft, MS, name, reattach, recover, recovery, VM
In part 1 I went through setting up an SSH tunnel, and waking up machines on the home network. In this part I’ll run through how to use various protocols and clients to connect to machines on the home network. SSH tunnels on PuTTY SSH lets you tunnel many other protocols through it (using a […]
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Tags: howto, http, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RDP, remote access, router, RPi, SOCKS, SSH, tunnel, VNC, vpn, wakeonlan
In this post I’m going to cover setting up a network tunnel and waking up other computers on the home network. Why use a Raspberry Pi? A tunnel needs two ends, so at home this means leaving at least one machine switched on – keeping the electricity meter turning. One of the great things about […]
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Tags: howto, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, remote access, router, RPi, SSH, tunnel, vpn, wakeonlan
In the first part of this howto I went through signing up for a cloud service, provisioning a VM, installing the build tools and kicking off a build. All being well you should end up with something like this: Azure can also give you a pretty chart of how busy the VM was during the build […]
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Tags: Apache, Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Building OpenELEC in the cloud
When I got my Raspberry Pi pretty much the first thing I did with it was to put on OpenELEC, and excellent shrink wrapped package for XBMC. Initially I started compiling it myself on a local virtual machine (VM), but impatience got the better of me and I downloaded an image provided by somebody else. […]
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Tags: Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Password dump checking
Leaks of (badly secured) password files seem to be big news at the moment. In many cases people set up sites to allow you to see if your password was in the leak – but who knows whether these sites are trustworthy. That’s not a risk I’m happy to take. Python provides a reasonably simple […]
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Tags: check, checker, leak, password, python, SHA1
If you just want to download images rather than make them then I’d suggest downloading an image of the latest official build. For the adventerous I’m still doing frequest dev builds and associated images[1], but these may be unstable. Read on if you’re interested in how this stuff is done… The Raspberry Pi build of […]
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Tags: image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SD, VirtualBox, XBMC
I spent time figuring this out due to needing SD cards for my Raspberry Pi, but the instructions apply to pretty much anything on SD. DD on Windows Windows sadly lacks the DD utility that’s ubiquitous on Unix/Linux systems. Luckily there is a dd for Windows utility. Get the latest version here (release at time of […]
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Tags: DD, howto, image, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SD
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