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The Raspberry Pi Drone Flies: see the first flights and followup!

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 31 July, 2020 - 14:41 |31 July, 2020 Pi Drone, Programming

In this post, there’s a video of my first flights with the Raspberry Pi Drone, and a description of what happened (they were eventful!). Continue reading →

Pi Drone Assembly Part 1 – base pi drone frame

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 17 June, 2020 - 15:20 |24 June, 2020 Pi Drone, Tutorials

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The first part of the drone frame assembled

This is the first part of a multi-part series on the Raspberry Pi Drone project. In this part, we’re building the pi drone frame. Continue reading →

Tutorial: Using toothpaste to help recover data from an optical disk

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 15 June, 2020 - 13:13 |15 June, 2020 Programming, Tutorials

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In this post, and the associated video, I demonstrate how to use toothpaste on a scratched optical disk to aid in recovering data. Continue reading →

How to: Archive a phpBB forum using Wget and preserve styling

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 25 May, 2020 - 14:50 |25 May, 2020 Tutorials

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In this post, I cover how to archive a phpBB forum while keeping styling intact so it remains easy to use. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

Booting from an NVME SSD on an older PC using Clover

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 25 May, 2020 - 14:03 |1 September, 2022 Tutorials

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The adaptor card inserted into my GPU cage

In this post, I show you how to install and boot from an NVME drive on an older PC that doesn’t have an M.2 slot. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

How To: Use Photorec with DDRescue-GUI to recover deleted files

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 15 February, 2020 - 12:36 |22 August, 2022 Cool Apps, Linux Distros, Programming, Tutorials

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In this post, I demonstrate how to use DDRescue-GUI and Photorec to recover lost or deleted files. Continue reading →

DDRescue-GUI tutorial videos released!

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 27 March, 2019 - 20:47 |27 March, 2019 Programming, Tutorials

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I have just released a couple of tutorial videos on how to use DDRescue-GUI, talking over what the settings are for, how to mount the output file, and how to restart a recovery, amongst other things. These do not have a corresponding write-up, so this is more of an announcement… Continue reading →

Category Archives: Tutorials

The Raspberry Pi Drone Flies: see the first flights and followup!

Pi Drone Assembly Part 1 – base pi drone frame

Tutorial: Using toothpaste to help recover data from an optical disk

How to: Archive a phpBB forum using Wget and preserve styling

Booting from an NVME SSD on an older PC using Clover

How To: Use Photorec with DDRescue-GUI to recover deleted files

DDRescue-GUI tutorial videos released!

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