Testing hardware-driven projects pays off quickly. Compared to driving a single LEGO motor, controlling a WS2812B lightstrip involves timing constraints, color math, frame buffers and update sequencing–lots of places …
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In this beginner-friendly guide, you’ll learn how to control a WS2812B (aka “NeoPixel”) LED light strip with a Raspberry Pi using .NET. We’ll enable SPI on the Pi, wire the strip correctly (including best practices like …
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If you go beyond hobby tinkering and aim for reliable, maintainable software, you need tests. Hardware projects are no exception. In fact, the closer you get to IO, timing and device state, the more you benefit from …
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In this beginner-friendly guide, you’ll learn how to control LEGO motors connected to a Raspberry Pi via the official Raspberry Pi Build HAT – using a simple, pure .NET application. We’ll use the Iot.Device.BuildHat …
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Unfortunately, currently the latest versions if Firefox (current: 61) on Ubuntu Mate are not supported. Firefox crashes. The latest version that runs on Ubuntu mate is the 42.
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Ziel ist es einen Raspberry PI mit dem Unitymedia WifiSpot zu verbinden. Dafür verwende ich als Basis Ubuntu Mate 16.04, sowie einen Raspberry PI 3 {target=_blank}, der bereits einen W-Lan-Chip Onboard hat. Diese …
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Often, I have the problem that the buttons of the Ubuntu Mate Network Manager to edit or delete network entries are disabled. This means the current user - even if I am root - do not have permissions.
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