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Fix Raspberry Pi File Manager Crashing

If you’ve recently updated your Raspberry Pi installation, and you’ve started to notice that every time you try and open the file manager it instantly closes again, here’s how to fix it.

Which Raspberry Pi is Right For You?

With many different versions, across four generations of models, the Raspberry Pi is certainly a busy little board. However, while each Pi offers something slightly different, for the newcomer it’s a confusing medley of hardware…

Using Raspberry Pi for Python Coding

If you’re considering on which platform to install and use Python, then give some thought to one of the best coding bases available: the Raspberry Pi. The Pi has many advantages for the coder: it’s…

Using a Raspberry Pi as a BBS Client

In a digital world before the Internet was a common household name, there existed a connected community of surfers. These individuals didn’t surf the WWW, instead they dialled up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), and opened…

How To Use Feh For Raspberry Pi

In the mood for a small, lightweight image viewer for use in the Raspberry Pi Terminal? Then feh may well be the package you’re looking for.

Use Multiple Terminals in Raspberry Pi

Want to use multiple Terminals within a single window on the Raspberry Pi? You’ll need the Terminator, then.

Up Close with the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Released at the end of June 2019, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is a significant improvement in terms of hardware. Labelled the ‘Ultimate’ Raspberry Pi, this new generation offers true desktop computing power.

Pi In The Sky

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has today released an image and video of the Earth, as seen through the fish-eye lens of an orbiting Raspberry Pi Zero.

Retro Gaming on Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi makes for an amazing retro gaming computer. With it you’re able to emulate and play the classic home computers, consoles and arcade machines that brought us so much joy back in the…

Stream Digital TV with a HAT – Part 2

In part 1 of this tutorial, we set up the Raspberry Pi and the TV HAT. The core Pi software and system should now be up to date and the TV Hat connected to an…

Stream Digital TV with a HAT – Part 1

A HAT, in case you’re wondering, is a Hardware Attached on Top add-on board that connects to a Raspberry Pi’s 40-pin GPIO. They can extend the capabilities of a Pi by adding motors, LCDs, sensors,…

7 Common Raspberry Pi Problems Solved!

The Raspberry Pi hardware and software is pretty reliable and problems are more often due to set up errors rather than anything to do with the hardware.