Kategorie: Linux
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Stare up at your own ceiling starscape
Reading Time: 2 minutesStare up at your own ceiling starscape Arduino Team — June 15th, 2020 Have you ever looked up at your ceiling and wondered how to make it a bit more interesting? Well, creator Centas has and decided to bring a piece of the galaxy into his room using a fiber optic star display.…
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Raspberry Pi–powered bonsai watering system
Reading Time: 2 minutesBonsai trees are the most glorious of miniature shrubbery. But caring for them takes seriously green fingers. Luckily, this Raspberry Pi–powered bonsai watering system doesn’t require much to get started. Also, the Reddit user who shared the project is named Lord-of-the-Pis, so, we love. You will need: Raspberry Pi Submersible water pump…
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Caroline Dunn interview
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat was your first Raspberry Pi project? I learned about the Raspberry Pi April 2014 during my first project with [it], installing Alexa Voice Service with my friend Steve Youngblood. We saw a tutorial on ‘How to Make an Alexa’ and decided to try it with no prior Raspberry Pi experience. It…
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Stuffed animal gets its own music/AV box
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStuffed animal gets its own music/AV box Arduino Team — June 14th, 2020 Er13k was inspired to create an Arduino music box to go along with his girlfriend’s giant stuffed dog Tobias. This eventually morphed into something that not only plays songs on its own speaker, but also lights up a…
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This Mad-Eye relies on Arduino, not magic
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Mad-Eye relies on Arduino, not magic Arduino Team — June 14th, 2020 In the Harry Potter series, professor Alastor Moody is known for wearing a very distinct prosthetic eyeball that moves in a “mad” manner. When Instructables member replayreb’s son decided to go to a costume party dressed as this character,…
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Let’s make it 3D with Digital Making at Home!
Reading Time: < 1 minute[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KVLeRhTerc?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Join us for Digital Making at Home, where this week, young people get to create all things 3D. With Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week! So get ready to visit a new digital…
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This magnetic board emits light and sound as a marble moves
Reading Time: 2 minutesAndrei Erdei recently designed an amazing Arduino-powered light board, which glows and plays sounds based on the movement of a magnetic marble. First, the magnet is placed on top and then made to roll by lifting the device’s sides. An array of 36 reed switches underneath the smoked plexiglass surface detect the marble’s…
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Mathematics and programming: exploring the links
Reading Time: 6 minutes“In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.” –…
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A DIY Deichkind-inspired tetrahedral LED hat
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA DIY Deichkind-inspired tetrahedral LED hat Arduino Team — June 11th, 2020 After mechanical engineer “Kuchbert” saw the hip-hop/electropunk band Deichkind perform — wearing LED-embedded tetrahedral hats, no less — he decided he wanted his own glowing geometric headpiece. Now, nearly 10 years and several shows later, he finally got his…
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Kaleidoscopic space art made with Raspberry Pi onboard the ISS
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat could be the world’s first interactive art experiment in space is powered by Raspberry Pi! The experiment, named Pulse/Hydra 3, features a kaleidoscope (as seen in the video) that lights up and starts to rotate after it receives heartbeat data from its ground terminal. This artistic experiment is designed to inspire…
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Apollo Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen the gauntlet was first laid down, Martin decided it would be a good time to use an Adafruit thermal sensor he’d already bought. “Our libraries already use commercial thermal visitor counters, so I thought I’d build my own,” he reasoned. Years of designing projects has taught him that it’s best not…
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Raspberry Pi-powered wedding memories record player
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’re a sentimental bunch and were bowled over by this intricate, musical wedding gift. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and has various other bits of geeky goodness under the hood. Honestly, the extra features just keep coming — you’ll see. This beautifully crafted ‘record player’ plays one pair of newlyweds’ Spotify…
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No string attaches this tin can telephone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo string attaches this tin can telephone Arduino Team — June 9th, 2020 Geoff (AKA Facio Ergo Sum) has created a new take on the classic “tin can telephone,” using an Arduino and nRF24L01 transceiver to pass audio signals instead of a physical string. The build and testing process are outlined in…
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Distract yourself with a desktop air dancer!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDistract yourself with a desktop air dancer! Arduino Team — June 9th, 2020 If you’ve ever seen a gigantic air dancer on the side of the road and thought you might want one of your own, Davide Marin shows how to create a desktop version here. The flailing figure is constructed out…
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Vulkan update: now with added source code
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday we have a guest post from Igalia’s Iago Toral, who has spent the past year working on the Mesa graphic driver stack for Raspberry Pi 4. It is almost five months since we announced the Vulkan effort for Raspberry Pi 4. It was great to see how many people were excited…
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Strato Pi CM Duo review
Reading Time: 2 minutesStrato Pi takes this stripped-down Raspberry Pi and uses the DDR2 SODIMM connector to hook it up to a custom board with 10/100 Ethernet, two USB Type-A ports (with individual power and fault detection), a real-time clock and CR1025 battery, and a hardware watchdog chip (used to switch between the two microSD…
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What are the effects of the pandemic on education? | Hello World #13
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow has computing education changed over the last few months? And how will the coronavirus pandemic affect education in the long term? In the introduction to our newest issue of Hello World, our CEO Philip Colligan reflects on the incredible work of front-line educators, and on the challenges educators and students will…
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Let’s go out to sea with Digital Making at Home
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDigital Making at Home: Out at sea Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://rpf.io/ytsub Help us reach a wider audience by translating our video content: http://rpf.io/yttranslate Buy a Raspbe… Join us for Digital Making at Home, where this week for World Oceans Day, the big blue sea is calling our names. With…
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Raspberry Pi–powered robot farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe love seeing Raspberry Pi being used to push industry forward. Here’s an example of how our tiny computers are making an impact in agriculture. Directed Machines is a small company on a mission to remove pollution and minimise human labour in land care. Their focus is to do more with less,…
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Get started with the High Quality Camera
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn this tutorial, we’ll show you how to attach a lens to the HQ Camera and adjust its focus and aperture settings. We’ll then use the supplied ribbon cable to connect it to Raspberry Pi, enable it in Raspbian, and enter some commands in a Terminal window to start capturing photos and…
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Game of Life
Reading Time: 3 minutesJohn sadly passed away in April this year but his creation lives on, not only in memory but in different manifestations. One of the most intriguing – from our perspective at least – is a version run on a Raspberry Pi. It has been produced by software engineer Nick Kelly, and it…
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Code Gauntlet’s four-player co-op mode | Wireframe #39
Reading Time: 4 minutesFour players dungeon crawling at once? Mark Vanstone shows you how to recreate Gauntlet’s co-op mode in Python and Pygame Zero. Players collected items while battling their way through dungeons. Shooting food was a definite faux pas. Atari’s Gauntlet was an eye-catching game, not least because it allowed four people to explore…