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How to Save Disk Space in Raspberry Pi OS and Purge Bloat

There is no getting away from bloat. Be it the middle aged spread or the ever increasing size of applications. But how can we battle the bloat on our Raspberry Pi? You could install the many lighter Raspberry Pi distros (Raspberry Pi OS Lite, or Diet Pi for example). But what if we want to reduce our running installation?Linux uses package managers to install and remove software packages. Software is downloaded from official (or third party) repositories and the package manager handles the installation of the software…

Raspberry Pi Pico and Zero Team Up to Drive 70 FPS LED Matrix

There’s nothing quite as illuminating as controlling a matrix panel with a Raspberry Pi. It’s like having your own personal marquee for displaying whatever you want from messages and notifications to videos and even games. But what really drives a good Pi project home is high-quality performance like this RP2040-powered matrix project developed by DeVayu that uses a Pico to drive a 64 x 32 matrix panel at over 70 FPS.driving_a_ledmatrix_at_70fps_over_wifi_using_a from r/raspberry_piIn the project thread, DeVayu explains…