Building a PiGrrl 2
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Building a PiGrrl 2

Back in the earlier days of the Raspberry Pi, there was a project going around called PiGrrl. It's of course, a play on the name "Game Boy". It's essentially just a Raspberry Pi in a GameBoy like housing. I built one back in 2021. I don't think I ever really posted about it because beyond building it, I never really used it much. If anything this is a bit of a discouragement to anyone else looking at a similar project. It never worked real great, and shortly after I just, bought a Retroid Pocket 3 which does, basically the same…
Project – Raspberry Pi – Webcam Project and Updating Pihole
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Project – Raspberry Pi – Webcam Project and Updating Pihole

On my little list of projects, I mentioned a webcam set up. My wife asked me about something for monitoring the cats while we are out. The ideal place would be in the front room area. I have plenty of Pis floating around and an extra Logitech cam, but I also already have one Pi in that area running my PiHole. There isn't any reason I couldn't attach the cam, to that Pi. It ended up being a bit more work than expected, but not really for any negative reasons. I found an easy guide for setting up Motion on…