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Beginner Python with Raspberry Pi Tips

Below are some tips for beginners who want to develop python program on Raspberry Pi (assuming you are using Windows as the development environment. 1. Interact with Raspberry Pi After connect rasberry pi to your computer, you need to configure the ip address of your network adapter, to ssh login to raspberry pi (e.g. configure an address such as 10.0.2.15), use Putty which can be downloaded from http://www.putty.org/ . After launching Putty, enter the "10.0.2.15" as  the address and select ssh and 22 as the port, and connect 2. Install TightVNC server for remote GUI access to Raspberry Pi Accessing raspberry pi via putty or ssh wont allow you to launch the raspbian x11 GUI by running command such as "startx". In that case, you can use TightVNC server allows you to remote login to the Raspbian x11 GUI on the raspberry pi so that you can interact with the raspberry pi in its GUI. >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install -y tightvncserver To start an...

Banana Pi M3 v1 2 First Tests

This is a short summary of my experience with my newly obtained Banana Pi M3 (v.1.2) board.  I am touching on the following topics, Operating systems Installing an OS on the internal eMMC storage (no SD cards finally!) Expanding the file system to the whole eMMC size The  Hardware What power supply to get Read & Write speeds from/to 2.5" HDD Encrypted containers and their speeds Temperatures Passive cooling with heat sink Forced cooling with a small USB fan Controlling CPU frequency to limit heat generation So three weeks ago on Thursday I have received my Banana Pi M3 v.1.2 board. In my excitement - despite not having slept enough for the previous 2 weeks - I have started to write OS .img files to different SD cards to quickly try out my new toy before going to bed. Well, long story short I have managed to dd my laptops / (/home was on a separate partition, so it was not a major issue, but still annoying). To reinstall so I had to burn some of those DVD things that were s...