Monthly Archives: May 2012

Enable Secure Shell (SSH) On Your Raspberry Pi

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Matt

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows you to run commands on a remote device. In the case of the Raspberry Pi can you execute commands over your network from another device such as a PC or … Continue reading →

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Install RPi.GPIO Python Library

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Matt

The RPi.GPIO Python library allows you to easily configure and read-write the input/output pins on the Pi’s GPIO header within a Python script. In order to use it you need to install the package as this isn’t currently included in … Continue reading →

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Send Text and HTML Email Using Python

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Matt

My first attempt at Python programming was a script to send email. This is something I plan to use in a future application so I thought it was a good first step. In order to create my script I used … Continue reading →

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Change Raspberry Pi Hostname

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Matt

By default the Raspberry Pi has its hostname set to “raspberrypi”. This appears as part of the command prompt when you open a terminal window. You can change it by editing a few system files. This process only takes a … Continue reading →

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