July 27, 2020

Polish your Raspberry Pi: Clean boot, splash screen video, noconsole & ZRAM

In general the Raspberry Pi is great learning tool. One reason is the great default verbose boot and console messages you see when booting or shuting down your raspberry pi. But for some more polished projects, its quite handy to hide all of that and have a nice boot loading animation instead. In this instance […]

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July 15, 2020

Raspberry Pi Photobooth in a classic vintage plate camera

I always wanted to have an old vintage plate camera from the early times of photography in my home as kind of a decor item. Inspired by walking across old flee markets in Germany, I thought it may be cool to put more into it, than just having the plate camera as a decoration item. […]

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May 31, 2020

Test your internet bandwidth on CLI or Terminal with python and speedtest.net

We all know this situation: you are on a fresh setup of Linux remote server or a headleas Raspberry Pi, and somehow the speed is not feeling right. Besides a iperf LAN speedtest for your device you can quickly check your connection speed to the outside with this handy python script command: If you don’t […]

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