By default, the Raspberry Pi is used like a computer, where you need a keyboard, mouse and monitor. Here are some other ways to configure it.

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Using a ESP32 Thing and a WiFi camera to create a robot that you control from your browser.

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Using the Mind Wave Mobile+, Mort and I created a mind-controlled IoT...solution (?) with sockets, of course!

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Students build Cheerlights display that changes color with tweets

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A new shirt design, a new power relay for your IoT needs, and a revision to the popular RedBearLab Nano board. It's Force Friday!

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Three IoT Platforms for Makers

Everyone seems to have an IoT software platform these days...here are three to try!

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How a hamster ball and Blynk app can detect not only motion, but perhaps something paranormal?

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Build an indoor visual weather display with LEDs and the Particle Photon!

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Our new Simultaneous RFID Reader brings multitag tracking capabilities to the masses.

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Setting up a sensor to text you if your basement is in danger of flooding

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While many of us fancy a new "Home of Tomorrow," the real growth in IoT is occurring in places most of us don't see.

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Got an internet-connected device as a gift? Let's have a quick chat about how to prevent another Mirai botnet attack.

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On IoT and security

Is it time to make smart devices dumber?

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Baby Blynk Monitor Thing

Baby sleep pattern monitor utilizing the SparkFun ESP8266 Thing, Blynk app, and SparkFun ADXL345 Library

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How JavaScript has evolved into a language supporting an entire ecosystem of devices

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Today we're demonstrating chess boards that talk over Phant!

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Getting your plants up to Phant and digging in to IFTTT

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Home automation with the ESP8266 is now easier than ever!

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We want to educate everyone. That means helping the government when they ask.

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You need to reflash the firmware - see: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_DataLogger/issues/3 Once you flash using that command, you can…

I think I just overwrite the DataLogger IoT firmware was doing firmware update and accidently hit Arduino script file, instead of cool term…

Thanks for the great description! I hadn't even been aware of the existance of NNSS, though in the mid 1980s, I'd looked at LORAN-C for a…

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Over the years, I've been pretty vocal about wanting on-board RTCs, with at least the possibility of connecting something like a coin…

Not only does VBAT supply the RTC, but there’s also battery-backed RAM onboard too! With the amount of space available on the Thing Plus…

Interesting... it sort of covers one of my "hot buttons", that is having an RTC. In looking at the schematic, I noticed that the "BAT"…

But Social Engineer's LOVE him. Good job catching so many of the buttons social manipulators use, but I nearly thought Sparkfun was off…

There's a disclaimer at the very end, hopefully that's enough to keep people from attempting. Glad you liked it!

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