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everything tagged raspberry-pi
Building a USB HID Device with Raspberry Pi Pico and TinyGo
I have an old Mac Mini that I wanted to use to run RetroPie and launch it automatically after startup. But the question was how to turn it off. I didn’t want to yank the power or force‑shut the whole OS, but I also don’t have a keyboard and a mouse connected to it. I wanted to have a graceful way to trigger a clean shutdown so the system could close everything properly.
How to do Raspberry Pi OS backups
I recently got a Raspberry Pi Zero and started configuring it for a personal project. As I was setting everything up I realized how much time and effort I was investing. That’s when it hit me: microSD cards, which the Pi relies on for storage, aren’t exactly known for their durability under heavy I/O. A sudden failure could mean losing everything. To avoid starting from scratch in the future, I decided to create a full backup of the system, including all configurations and data.