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Find your friends with LoRa, GPS, and a compass module.
Glitter Positioning System
by Brennen Bearnes
A quick overview of installing MakeCode for local use or development.
Installing Microsoft MakeCode for Adafruit
by Brennen Bearnes
Learn how to start a script on boot on common GNU/Linux systems.
Running Programs Automatically on Your Tiny Computer
by Brennen Bearnes
Connect your IO account to a wide range of services and APIs with Zapier.
Using Zapier with Adafruit IO
by Brennen Bearnes
Learn the basics of sharing work with collaborators (like Adafruit!) using Git and GitHub.
An Introduction to Collaborating with Version Control
by Brennen Bearnes
Customize a Flashflight or other suitable flying disc, and throw blinky programs at your friends.
A NeoPixel Blinkendisc
by Brennen Bearnes
How to outfit a simple live trap with sensors and data-logging, and quantify the vermin in your life.
A Sillier Mousetrap: Logging Mouse Data to Adafruit IO with the Raspberry Pi
by Brennen Bearnes
Install Kali Linux on your Pi, and add a kernel that supports Adafruit's PiTFT display.
Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi with the PiTFT
by Brennen Bearnes
Quickly set up your Pi to boot with a USB stick or external hard drive as main storage.
Using an External Drive as a Raspberry Pi Root Filesystem
by Brennen Bearnes
An exploration of network communication from the shell using Pygame and the PiTFT.
RasPipe: A Raspberry Pi Pipeline Viewer, Part 2
by Brennen Bearnes
An exploration of standard IO, Unix filters, and simple graphics with Python and Pygame.
RasPipe: A Raspberry Pi Pipeline Viewer, Part 1
by Brennen Bearnes
Use Vagrant to quickly spin up a virtual Linux systems on your Windows PC.
A Quick Linux VM on Windows with Vagrant
by Brennen Bearnes
A look at wildcards, aliases, custom scripts, and other force multipliers in the shell.
An Illustrated Guide to Shell Magic: Typing Less & Doing More
by Brennen Bearnes
An introduction to pipelines, redirection, and other such incantations in the shell.
An Illustrated Guide to Shell Magic: Standard I/O & Redirection
by Brennen Bearnes
A quick and easy path to a virtual machine running GNU/Linux in the cloud.
A DigitalOcean droplet in 10 minutes
by Brennen Bearnes
A fast, simple overview of basic shell commands, with pictures.
An Illustrated Shell Command Primer
by Brennen Bearnes
An introduction to the interface at the heart of Linux & Unix systems.
What is the Command Line?
by Brennen Bearnes
A gentle introduction to the world's most popular free OS.
What is this "Linux", anyhow?
by Brennen Bearnes