Sunday, 03 February 2013 13:25
Running raspi-config anytime anywhere
Raspi-Config is a tool to help you to configure Raspberry Pi, it is a bit similar to adjust the computer BIOS settings. Raspi-config runs automatically when you boot your Raspberry Pi and you can access this tool anytime anywhere.
SSH to Raspberry Pi and enter command below
sudo raspi-config
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Monday, 28 January 2013 23:20
Gambas for Raspberry Pi
Gambas is a BASIC interpreter which is very similar to Visual Basic but running on Linux. Gambas from version 3.2 can run on Raspberry Pi and Gambas3 for Raspberry Pi image file is available here.
Installation
- After download the image file (it is zipped), extract it to any location of computer. Now your computer should have an image file named as 2012-07-15-wheezy-gambas3.img
- Write this img file to SD card using Win32DiskImager as describe in this article
- Remove the SD card from computer once writing completed
- Insert the SD card to Raspberry Pi & power on it.
- Remote access to Raspberry using TightVNC as describe in this article
- You should see Gambas icon appear on the desktop screen.
- To start Gambas3, click the first icon at the left bottom screen then select Programming>Gambas3
People find that they are facing 100% CPU usage when using Gambas3, you can use the patch to overcome this problem.
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Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:19
TinyBASIC for Raspberry Pi
TinyBASIC is a simple BASIC interpreter which allow beginners to easily get into programming
Installing
You need to install libsdl-gfx1.2-4 package before install TinyBASIC.
You need to install libsdl-gfx1.2-4 package before install TinyBASIC.
- SSH to Raspberry Pi and execute command below:
| sudo apt-get install libsdl-gfx1.2-4 |
- Download TinyBASIC deb file and save it to any location of computer
- Transfer the downloaded deb file from computer to /tmp folder of Raspberry Pi using WinSCP
- Execute command below to start install TinyBasic
| sudo dpkg -i /tmp/tinybasic_2.1-1_armhf.deb |
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Sunday, 27 January 2013 14:38
My First Raspberry Pi
This is my first Raspberry Pi and here is my hand on experience. Before this, let me show you the specification of my Raspberry Pi. Here I login to Raspberry Pi and list the hardware information:
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Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:28
Virtualbox Raspberry Pi Emulator
Would like to have Raspberry Pi experience before you own one of the boards? This article show you how to use VirtualBox as a emulator of Raspberry Pi
Download
- Download the zip file and extract the included torrent file to any folder
- Open the torrent file with any torrent client. I'm using flashget to open the torrent file.
- The download should start.
- You will have a 658,763KB ova file upon completion of downloading
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