Prevent Your Raspberry Pi From Sleeping

You’re using your Pi and your monitor keeps going blank and it’s driving you mad.

There are various methods to accomplish this so we’ll look at a few. That way if you find one isn’t working for you, you’ll have some alternatives.

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Creating a New User and Changing Username/Password on Raspbian

Reasons Why

A great reason to do this is increased security. On a fresh copy of Raspbian, your username and password will be ‘pi’ and ‘raspberry’. You may have projects that are more public and require a bit more security.

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Browsing the Web from the Raspbian Command Line

Reasons Why

This a quick way to check something on the web without firing up the GUI and then a browser. I found its good for text based sites like news, blogs or articles.

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Rotate your Raspberry Pi Display

Reasons Why

With some projects you may have a need for a portrait oriented display. Or perhaps you’re one of the ‘cool kids’.

You might recall a blog post going around called the ‘Magic Mirror’ by Michael Teeuw. This was a really cool project and a perfect example of why you may have a need to rotate your display.

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Live Twitter Stream Using Raspberry Pi and NodeJS

What’s the Purpose?

The main use case was I wanted to see some geofenced Twitter tweets and/or some relevant keyword terms. Getting a bird’s eye view of some relevant tweets seemed very interesting to me.

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Accessing your Raspberry Pi from another Computer

Reasons Why

Sometimes you want to control your Pi from your regular computer. Maybe you want to start a program on the Pi without being infront of the Pi.

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Mounting and Accessing a USB Drive on the Raspberry Pi

Mounting a USB is easy!

First you have to make/name your drive.

sudo mkdir /mnt/nameofyourdrive
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