Jeremy's Raspberry Pi Tutorials

How to Install DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

DeepSeek R1 shook the Generative AI world, and everyone even remotely interested in AI rushed to try it out. It is a great model, IMO. As you may know, I love to run models locally, and since this is an open-source model, of course, I had to try it out. It works great on my Mac Studio and 4090 machines.

But can it run on this? A silly little Raspberry Pi?

How to install Raspberry Pi OS from Arch Linux

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

So you just got a fancy new Raspberry Pi and want to set it up and get it running. There are several ways to do this, and there are many instructions for folks using Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu.

Lately, I’ve been using the RPI Imager. There aren’t any instructions on the official website for Arch Linux, but it isn’t much different to install and adds some cool options, as we’ll see in this article. I’ll also show you the old “dd” method.

Processing IOT Data with SQLite and Golang

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:06:18 -0700

An unprecedented heat wave rocked the Pacific Northwest in June. Oregon turned into an oven. This gave me yet another reason to break out a Raspberry Pi and collect some data. I sent it to Adafruit because it remains one of the greatest places to send and look at IoT data.

During the first day I placed a Raspberry Pi under my deck to collect and send temperature and humidity data.

Easy IoT with Adafruit IO and a Raspberry Pi

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:30:39 -0800

There are a ton of IoT solutions in the cloud. Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have great and complex IoT platforms out there. They’re fantastic for doing enterprise IoT.

But what about folks who just want to dip their toes into IoT? What if you just want to do a small hobby project to learn IoT before jumping into the big stuff??

Adafruit has your solution. They have a fully functional, easy to use IoT platform for hobbyists who just like to mess around and learn things. This platform is so good, you could use it for enterprise stuff as well.

How to Install OpenCV on a Raspberry Pi

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:04:10 -0800

OpenCV is an incredible computer vision library, and the Raspberry Pi is an awesome piece of hardware. You can bring them together for your projects. In fact, I am writing this article as a reference so you folks can set up your Pi with OpenCV for a series of tutorials I’m doing.

We’re going to install OpenCV on the Raspberry Pi for Python projects. Note: There are two ways to install this:

Shaking down the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:42:56 -0700

I picked up the new Raspberry Pi High Quality camera last week. It’s pretty impressive. In this article, I’ll show you some ways to interact with this camera and do some cool stuff with it.

This is my current setup for this article. I built little stage with Mario, and I have the camera with a lens, into my Pi, and a temp/humidity sensor hooked to it. It’s the same I used in my previous live stream with this camera.

Raspberry Pi: Unboxing the New Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:29:24 -0700

The Raspberry Pi foundation just released their new High Quality Camera for the Raspberry Pi and we’re going to try it out!!

Some specs:

12.3 megapixel Sony IMX477 sensor
7.9mm diagonal image size
back-illuminated sensor architecture
adjustable back focus
support for C- and CS-mount lenses

I recieved mine today, and I’m going to try it out and play with it live!

We’re going to show how to hook it up, and try it out.

Golang: Get and Store Temperature from a Raspberry Pi with Go

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:08:19 -0700

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to grab temperature from a Raspberry Pi and build an endpoint to store the data, with Go. You will learn:

How to retrieve the temperature from a sensor
How to send that data in JSON
Build an API endpoint to receive it
Store the data in SQLite database

And we’ll do it all with Go. I did a live stream of the entire process that you can watch here.

How to Install Go on the Raspberry Pi

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:20:33 -0700

If you want to install Go on your Raspberry Pi you have a few options. In the past there was a lot of cross compiling and hacking to get it done, but now you can install it through Apt. However, you’re likely to find an older version.

For instance at the time of this writing, an updated Raspberry Pi OS shows a version of 1.11.1 in the repositories. However the current version is 1.14.3 so if the latest version is important to you, here’s your solution.

Raspberry Pi 4 Dev Server

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 10:44:03 -0800

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a Raspberry Pi 4 as a development (or testing) server. You can use this as a place to push your code and test it in a web browser. For the demo, I’ll use a React application, but with a few modifications, you can build just about anything with it.

For this project, I’m using a Canakit Raspberry Pi 4 Complete Kit. This gives you everything you need to get going, including a case, power supply, and SD Card.

Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Adafruit IO

Sat, 26 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

There is an updated article showing the features of Adafruit IO here Check it out!

Earlier this year Adafruit Industries put their IoT dashboard Adafruit.IO into Beta, and it looks pretty cool. I’ll show you how to set up a dashboard using one of my mini weather station designs for data input. You may remember this project from a few months ago. I’ll be adding yet another endpoint to the project on Adafruit.IO.

How to set up the Raspberry Pi 7 Touchscreen

Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I recently purchased the 7" touch screen for the Raspberry Pi and thought I’d put something together to show how it’s set up and share my thoughts on it so far. This has been a really popular item and I had to check it out.

The Kit

The Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen kit came from Newark element14 , and it’s boxed with everything you need (except of course a Raspberry Pi). It comes with an interface boards and everything to mount a pi to the back of it, which can be pretty nice.

Make a Weather Station with a Raspberry Pi

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Today I’m going to show you how to make sort of a mini weather station with a Raspberry Pi. This is an ongoing project of mine that I’ve been tinkering with so I’ll share my learnings with you. It started with a project I wrote about last month, and is an improvement on it.

How To Monitor Room Temperature with a Raspberry Pi

Sun, 26 Jul 2015 08:00:00 +0000

Today I’m going to show you how to monitor ambient room temperature with a Raspberry Pi. We’re going to wire up a temperature sensor, gather temperature values and send them to Firebase. This could be the start of a weather station or other crazy experiments. In my case we’re going to check the temperature of a room to make sure our newborn puppies don’t get too hot or cold during the day.

How to Blink an LED on a Raspberry Pi

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The blinking LED is the “hello world” of the maker community, and today I’ll show you how easy it is to do with the Raspberry Pi 2 (or Model B)! We’re going to use Python and WiringPi for this project.

What you’ll need

For this article I’m using a Raspberry Pi 2, but you can also use a Raspberry Pi Model B. You will also need:

Dotnet: How to Build C# apps on Your Raspberry Pi

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Want to run and build .Net applications on your Raspberry Pi? In this article I’ll show you how. With Mono you can develop and run .Net applications on your Raspberry Pi. I got a few emails about this, so I decided to create a quick tutorial.

What’s the Purpose here?

If you’re thinking of running your favorite Windows .Net applications, or setup a fancy ASP.NET server, you may be disappointed. While Mono does a great job and the Raspberry Pi performs great for what it is, I wouldn’t say this solution is ready for the big leagues, and definitely not something you want to do in a production or commercial environment.

Raspberry Pi Programming For Beginners

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Want to learn how to write some apps for the Raspberry Pi? Today I’m going to kick off a new series of tutorials related to the Raspberry Pi and programming. This is a series that will be aimed at beginners, but seasoned programmers may want to take a look as well. The Raspberry Pi was created for education, tinkering and bringing technology to the far parts of the world. This is a mission I firmly stand behind, so I’m doing my part to throw some new stuff out there to get people excited about becoming a programmer with this awesome device.

The Top 10 Raspberry Pi Blogs

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Do you love the Raspberry Pi as much as I do? Ever since I first heard of it I’ve been trying to keep up on all the latest happenings with this device. Here is a list of great blogs and other places to get Raspberry Pi content.

The Top 10 Raspberry Pi Blogs

Adafruit Industries

By far one of the most thorough and technical of the Raspberry Pi blogs, this site is very unique in the sheer amount of great information it provides on many embedded devices. Run by Limor “Ladyada” Fried, one of the smartest and coolest bloggers out there.

Raspberry Pi how to: Set up a SVN Server

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Today we’re going to go thru the process of turning your Raspberry Pi into an SVN server. While this may not be the most practical use of your Pi, it’s an excellent learning experience. SVN is a pretty good way to manage your code, especially if you’re juggling lots of projects.

This isn’t going to be a “how to use SVN” tutorial but more of a guide for setting it up on a Raspberry Pi. If you’re not familiar with SVN Here is an excellent free guide to get started.

How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

So I found yet another cool use for a Raspberry Pi. You can actually use it as a file server, or more accurately a controller for a file server. All you need is your Pi and a nice external drive and you can serve files to anyone on your network. It’s pretty easy, I’ll show you how.

What you’ll need.

You need the Raspberry Pi set up and connected to your network. You’ll also need an external drive. I’m using a Western Digital My Book 500 GB drive.

Raspberry Pi How to: Learning Linux Commands

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

So you have a Raspberry Pi but you’re not a Linux expert? Have no fear it’s not as hard as you might think. You can do tons of stuff on the Raspberry Pi without ever using the Linux prompt, but if you do take the time to learn it you’ll open a whole world of power. In this article I’ll attempt to give you a crash course in the Linux prompt on the Raspberry Pi.

How to Install Drupal on Raspberry Pi

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Do you want to install Drupal on your Raspberry Pi? It’s a lot easier than you might think, and this tutorial will walk you through the details of putting this great system on your Pi.

What you need to do first

First you’ll need the following:

Web Server Software such as Apache, Nginx
PHP 5.2.5 or higher (5.3 recommended)
MySQL 5.0.15 or higher with PDO

You should have all these set up and configured already. If you need to, refer back to How to set up a Raspberry Pi Web Server if you need to.

Remote Desktop with Raspberry Pi

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This article updated for the Raspberry Pi 5. I still prefer this over Raspberry Pi Connect.

Do you want to remote into your Raspberry Pi and see a graphical desktop? It’s really easy. If you don’t want to dedicate a monitor or the TV to the pi but still want to use it, here’s your solution.

Let’s say you’re like me and you have a bunch of computers around all the time. You have your Raspberry Pi that you want to play around with but you don’t want to fiddle back and forth with cables or hook it to your TV, well this method will let you have a graphical desktop on your own desktop of your PC or Laptop like this:

How to Install Node.js on Your Raspberry Pi

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Do you want to install Node.js on your Raspberry Pi? It’s actually quite a bit easier than it used to be. I just recently installed Node.js 0.8.16 on my Raspberry Pi and decided to document it. For this tutorial I’m using a setup with the latest Raspian image.

Installation of Node.Js 0.8.16

To do this, you’ll need to build Node.js from source. It’s not as bad as it sounds, and actually pretty easy. We’ll be getting the source from the downloads page at Nodejs.org and compiling it from there.

How to Overclock your Raspberry Pi

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Do you want to safely overclock your Raspberry Pi? Here’s how you need to do it. There are a few articles out there on overclocking your Raspberry Pi, and I followed them but it didn’t work. So after some Googling and Stack Overflow work I find the answer, and I’m here to save you some time.

Find your current clock speed

There are several ways to find out what you Pi is running at currently. Most likely it’s running at 700mhz, and this is how you verify it

The Raspberry Pi Web Server Speed Test

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

So last week I showed how to set up a web server on the Raspberry Pi. Many people pointed out that Apache probably isn’t the best option for the Pi. So I decided to do a little speed test to see which server would be the fastest if you were going to build a Raspberry Pi Webserver. This is a good way to compare how each server will run on low powered hardware.

Tutorial: How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi Web Server

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

People are doing a lot of cool things with the Raspberry Pi. One of the first things I thought to do was to see if I could make a Raspberry Pi web server. Being a web developer and overall geek I figured it might be kind of fun to do, and as I found out it’s really easy.

Getting Started

Setting up a Web Server on this device really isn’t much different from any other Linux machine, but there are a couple things you’ll want to do in order to get it working right.