How to emulate Raspberry Pi in QEMU

QEMU is an open source emulator that can emulate operating systems from all architectures, including ARM, the architecture of the Raspberry Pi. You can even emulate it on an x86 PC, but it will be slower than on a Raspberry Pi itself since the code is being converted from ARM code to x86 code throughContinue reading “How to emulate Raspberry Pi in QEMU”

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Raspberry Pi 4 2GB RAM model price reduced to £35; 1GB variant still to be sold at same price however

The 2GB model of the Raspberry Pi 4 has had its price reduced to £35, same as the original Raspberry Pi Model B was priced at in 2012. This is after RAM prices were reduced last year, meaning it no longer costs the Raspberry Pi Foundation as much to produce the 2GB variant as itContinue reading “Raspberry Pi 4 2GB RAM model price reduced to £35; 1GB variant still to be sold at same price however”

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Fix audio on Raspberry Pi

If audio is not playing on your Raspberry Pi and the only output recognised in settings is ‘dummy output’ then you have a problem. However, this issue is easy to solve, all you have to do is add two lines to config.txt.

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Raspberry Pi 4 review

For Christmas I got a Raspberry Pi 4. I had to order a thermal cooling case as well as a USB-C power lead as well as a microHDMI to HDMI adapter (first one didn’t work, second one did luckily). I got the 4GB version so expect some great performance.

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One lovely blog award – who are my favourite bloggers?

This challenge has spread across the internet like fire (I didn’t create this challenge) so I have decided to do one. Basically, I have to tell you 7 things about my character. And up to 15 bloggers I enjoy. I have over 40 followers, but as there are limits (a few don’t have blogs) andContinue reading “One lovely blog award – who are my favourite bloggers?”

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0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

There has probably been a time when you have ran sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. The output may of been like this: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update Get:1 http://archive.raspbian.org jessie InRelease [14.9 kB] Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie InRelease [14.9 kB] Get:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie InRelease [13.2 kB] Get:4 http://archive.raspbian.org jessie/main Sources [7,745 kB] Get:5 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.orgContinue reading “0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.”

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All “Install Chromium on Raspberry Pi” posts are now obsolete!

Hi guys! In the past, I have made a lot of “How to install Chromium on Raspberry Pi” posts. Now these posts are considered obsolete because a Chromium for ARMv7 and ARMv8 installer is found at https://coolchasgamer.wordpress.com/chromium-arm. Chromium 53 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Enjoy! Epic Chas Gamer 😀

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