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📡 Getting the Fintek IR receiver to work with Linux

Some of the Medion AIO (all-in-one) desktop pc-s are equipped with IR remote receiver, which doesn’t work out of the box on linux. Instead during...

📺 Waveshare Spotpear 3.2“ (v4) TFT-LCD with touch input + 3 buttons

Cheap chinese tft lcd module with touch and 3 physical buttons. Connect the lcd on the Raspberry Pi and boot up the Raspbian/Debian (min. Wheezy), then follow the steps below to get it fully functional...

💻 Disable screen blanking in X

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By default X in Raspbian is configured to blank the screen after 5 minutes of no input. If you are working on something it...

📱 Huawei E1752 on Linux

The Huawei E1752 is an ancient USB HSDPA modem which can be still used for connecting to the internet or even sending and receiving sms messages. This post is about to get it working on Raspbian/Jessie...

💾 Writing .img images on SD-card

When i need to write an image on a sd-card, lately i choose pv instead dd in linux. Why? There is no need to bother with switches to achieve maximum writing speed of the sd-card...