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Out of the box, the Raspberry Pi comes without an operating system. Fortunately, there are various (free) operating systems available to choose from. This post will show the basics of installing an operating system to a Raspberry Pi. More…

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Raspberry Pis are popularly being used as stand-alone media centres, task schedulers, desktops, etc. For these types of uses, these computers will need some form of protection. This post features 16 Raspberry Pi model B cases available in South Africa. More…

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Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an open source media centre software and is available in different forms for all major operating systems. For home use, XBian and OpenELEC are two popular Kodi-embedded media centre distributions. More…

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The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. More…

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To many of us South Africans, the Raspberry Pi is something only for computer geeks, computer engineers, guys, people who know their electronics, established hobbyists or people from the USA. Although this is true, the Raspberry Pi is also available, locally, in South Africa! These are the things you’ll need for your first Raspberry Pi build. More…

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