Cambridge Raspberry Jam

Just a quick post today to report that I want along to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam today. Many thanks to Michael Horne for arranging it! This was my first “jam”, so I was not sure what to expect. It turned out to be a kind of one-day conference, with a sequence of presentations separated by …

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Eben Upton’s ’80s inspiration

I usually try and be fairly serious here, but while reading How Raspberry Pi taught British tech to be world-class at techradar, I was reminded of something else from the 1980s. Looks like Eben Upton was inspired not just by the BBC Micro, but also by Max Headroom :) Max Headroom and Eben Upton. Standing …

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Backups using bt sync and Raspberry Pi (Part 1 – software)

You have probably heard of the big names in “cloud” file storage. Maybe you use something like Dropbox, Google Drive, or iCloud already. They are all easy to use – once you have installed a small service on your PC and told it what files and folders you wish to store, it takes care of …

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A solution to multiple Raspberry Pi ssh key woes

I have several Raspberry Pi boards, and several SD cards which I swap around depending on what I am doing at the time. I usually can’t be bothered to find and connect up a HDMI display and separate keyboard, so I just connect using ssh from whatever development PC I happen to have to hand. …

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