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Raspberry Pi Prank Tutorial – Making Your Co-Worker’s Desk “Magically” Go Up and Down

Besides my “work” as a software engineering student at Aalborg University, I also work as a student programmer at a software company here in Aalborg. A couple of months ago, one of my colleagues (Thomas) came by my desk and asked me: Wouldn’t it be fun if we could control Sanne’s desk remotely? At first I laughed at […]

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Raspberry Pi Tutorial – Connect to WiFi or Create An Encrypted DHCP Enabled Ad-hoc Network as Fallback

In this post I describe how I have configured my Raspberry Pi (RPi) to first attempt to connect to WiFi and if that fails, create and use an ad-hoc network as fallback (in this way I can always reach the RPi via SSH). The blog post is based on the following “How To” from the […]

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Getting Started with My Raspberry Pi – Part 2: RPi Specs and Peripherals

  Recently I got myself a Raspberry Pi model B Revision 2.0 with 512MB RAM. In this post, I list the specs of my RPi as well as the peripherals I have bought for it. Raspberry Pi  Model B Revision 2.0 (hardware revision code 0005) (how to see this: http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/09/checking-your-raspberry-pi-board-version/) 512MB RAM (how to see this: […]

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Getting Started with My Raspberry Pi – Part 1: Blog Post Survey

  In this blog post, I give a brief survey of some of the articles I have come across during my initial work with the Raspberry Pi (RPi). WiFi How To : Use The Raspberry Pi As A Wireless Access Point/Router Part 1 – http://sirlagz.net/2012/08/09/how-to-use-the-raspberry-pi-as-a-wireless-access-pointrouter-part-1/ A well written multi-part tutorial that describes how to configure your […]

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Installation of Ubuntu 8.04 Server (Hardy Heron) LTS on SOEKRIS-net4801 using VirtualBox

This fall, we are working with the Internet of Things (IoT) as the topic of our project at the university. We are going to implement a model of how the IoT can be used in the everyday household, and for this purpose we use a SOEKRIS-net4801 box as a proxy server responsible for communication between […]

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