Kategorie: Linux
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Measure voltage and current with the Tiny V/A Meter
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeasure voltage and current with the Tiny V/A Meter Arduino Team — June 3rd, 2020 Measuring voltage with a multimeter is easy enough, and current is a bit harder, but reading both values simultaneously can be a challenge. If you’re tired of having to replug or find two meters, then look no…
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Monitoring CPU usage with an Arc Reactor
Reading Time: 2 minutesMonitoring CPU usage with an Arc Reactor Arduino Team — June 3rd, 2020 Iron Man Arc Reactors have brought joy to makers of all ages, whether as something cool on a movie screen, as a hacked together light assembly, or even a cosplay prop created from a DIY kit. Michael Klements decided…
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Learn at home #3: building resilience and problem solving skills
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith changes to school and work around the world, many parents and carers still aren’t sure what to expect over the next few weeks. While some children have returned to school, we know that many young people and families are still learning and working at home. We’re providing lots of free extra…
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Cut the grass from a distance using an RC lawn mower
Reading Time: 2 minutesCut the grass from a distance using an RC lawn mower Arduino Team — June 3rd, 2020 If you grew up watching Honey I Shrunk the Kids, you may recall the scene with Wayne Szalinski’s remote-controlled lawn mower. Inspired by the 1989 film, “elliotmade” designed a version of his own a few years…
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Enjoy VR games on your PC with this Arduino-based DIY headset
Reading Time: 2 minutesEnjoy VR games on your PC with this Arduino-based DIY headset Arduino Team — June 2nd, 2020 If you want a virtual reality headset for your computer, but don’t want to dig deep into your pockets, this project by “jamesvdberg” (AKA Killer Robotics) presents a low-cost alternative. Although it won’t pack the capabilities…
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6558 programs from young people have run on the ISS for Astro Pi 2019/20!
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, in collaboration with ESA Education, is excited to announce that all of this year’s successful Astro Pi programs have now run aboard the International Space Station (ISS)! Record numbers of young people took part in Astro Pi Mission Zero This year, a record 6350 teams…
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This Arduino-powered LED matrix mask responds to your voice
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Arduino-powered LED matrix mask responds to your voice Arduino Team — June 2nd, 2020 When wearing a face mask nowadays, you can’t show expressions in the same ways that we’re all accustomed to. As a possible solution to this problem, programmer Tyler Glaiel decided to create a custom covering, with…
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Exploring open-source ventilators: Apollo Ventilator
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by César Garcia, researcher at La Hora Maker. This week, we will be exploring the Apollo Ventilator in detail! This project emerged at Makespace Madrid two months ago. It was a response to the first news about the expected lack of ventilators in Spain because of COVID-19. Several members…
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Meet TELEBOT, the terrifying telepresence robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeet TELEBOT, the terrifying telepresence robot Arduino Team — June 1st, 2020 The Internet has been perhaps more important than ever to keep us connected these days. Available technology, however, apparently wasn’t good enough for brothers Hunter and Josh Irving, who built their own telepresence robot using parts on-hand during their own…
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Unicorn HAT Mini review
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne slight downside is that – unlike the full‑size Unicorn HAT HD – it doesn’t come supplied with a translucent diffuser layer to fill out the gaps in the display between the small pixels. However, you could always make your own, even out of paper. Push-button controls Four programmable push-buttons – two on…
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Monitoring bees with a Raspberry Pi and BeeMonitor
Reading Time: 4 minutesKeeping an eye on bee life cycles is a brilliant example of how Raspberry Pi sensors help us understand the world around us, says Rosie Hattersley The setup featuring an Arduino, RF receiver, USB cable and Raspberry Pi Getting to design and build things for a living sounds like a dream job,…
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Learn about exoplanet exploration with this Arduino-powered apparatus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLearn about exoplanet exploration with this Arduino-powered apparatus Arduino Team — May 29th, 2020 How do we know that planets exist outside of our solar system? While too far away to observe directly, with extremely sensitive equipment like the Kepler space telescope it’s possible to detect changes in light as these…
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Latest Raspberry Pi OS update – May 2020
Reading Time: 7 minutesAlong with yesterday’s launch of the new 8GB Raspberry Pi 4, we launched a beta 64-bit ARM version of Debian with the Raspberry Pi Desktop, so you could use all those extra gigabytes. We also updated the 32-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS (the new name for Raspbian), so here’s a quick…
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Announcing the Touch Less, Do More Challenge
Reading Time: 4 minutes[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvsczf9h0Q?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we interact with people, things, and the world around us. We’re calling on the community to use an Arduino Nano or MKR board to build solutions that can help us practice better social distancing, improve queue management, or enable touch-free technologies. Stepping out from…
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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 in The MagPi #94
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Raspberry Pi 4 with double the RAM With twice the memory as any previous Raspberry Pi, and 40 times the power of the original board, the new 8GB model is a powerhouse! Gareth Halfacree muses on what you can do with the ultra-powerful 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 in this month’s edition…
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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe long-rumoured 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 is now available, priced at just $75. Raspberry Pi 4 is almost a year old, and it’s been a busy year. We’ve sold nearly 3 million units, shipped a couple of minor board revisions, and reduced the price of the 2GB variant from $45 to $35.…
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GoodBoy is a robot dog that runs on Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGoodBoy is a robot dog that runs on Arduino Arduino Team — May 27th, 2020 Daniel Hingston wanted to build a four-legged walking robot for several years, and with current coronavirus restrictions he finally got his chance. His 3D-printed robodog, dubbed “GoodBoy,” is reminiscent of a miniature version of Boston Dynamics’ Spot,…
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Learning AI at school — a peek into the black box
Reading Time: 5 minutes“In the near future, perhaps sooner than we think, virtually everyone will need a basic understanding of the technologies that underpin machine learning and artificial intelligence.” — from the 2018 Informatics Europe & EUACM report about machine learning As the quote above highlights, AI and machine learning (ML) are increasingly affecting society…
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This cycling game is controlled by a real bike
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis cycling game is controlled by a real bike Arduino Team — May 26th, 2020 What is one to do when stuck indoors due to bad weather or other circumstances, without the ability to ride your beloved bicycle? If you’re game designer Jelle Vermandere, you build your own cycling simulator as…
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Edge Impulse makes TinyML available to millions of Arduino developers
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post is written by Jan Jongboom and Dominic Pajak. Running machine learning (ML) on microcontrollers is one of the most exciting developments of the past years, allowing small battery-powered devices to detect complex motions, recognize sounds, or find anomalies in sensor data. To make building and deploying these models accessible to…
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8 Bits and a Byte interview
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow did the channel start? The idea of the channel started when Dane finished his first Raspberry Pi hobby project. He loved the project, but he also wanted to take it apart to be able build something else: his next project. We thought it would be a shame to just take it…