Kategorie: Linux
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Vineyard Kikushima
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We are now doing viniculture in Koshu city, Yamanashi Prefecture, and we aim to open a small winery in Katsunuma in the spring of this year,” says Kunio Kikushima, owner of Vineyard Kikushima. “We also aim for eco-friendly wine without any agricultural chemicals where possible. We are now doing viniculture and vinification.” Kunio is…
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Remote working with Arduino: Alexa and the Arduino IoT Cloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesRemote working with Arduino: Alexa and the Arduino IoT Cloud Arduino Team — May 13th, 2020 We’ll certainly remember this year, with many of us learning how to adapt and live a safe life-style under the pandemic. As many countries begin to initiate a relaxation of restrictions and we are starting to…
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Making the best of it: online learning and remote teaching
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs many educators across the world are currently faced with implementing some form of remote teaching during school closures, we thought this topic was ideal for the very first of our seminar series about computing education research. Research into online learning and remote teaching At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we are hosting…
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Sink every shot with this robotic backboard
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSink every shot with this robotic backboard Arduino Team — May 12th, 2020 With many years of practice and discipline, you too can improve your basketball skills. Or you could just choose to play with Shane Wighton’s automated backboard that sinks nearly any shot that you take. The setup uses a Microsoft Kinect,…
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Fix slow Nintendo Switch play with your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesIs your Nintendo Switch behaving more like a Nintendon’t due to poor connectivity? Well, TopSpec (hosted Chris Barlas) has shared a brilliant Raspberry Pi-powered hack on YouTube to help you fix that. Here’s the problem… When you play Switch online, the servers are peer-to-peer. The Switches decide which Switch’s internet connection is…
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Have a blast with this Arduino-powered laser shooting game
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave a blast with this Arduino-powered laser shooting game Arduino Team — May 12th, 2020 As a fun weekend project at home, Arnaud Atchimon and his son came up with a DIY laser blaster game comprised of a 3D-printed shooter and target setup. Both devices are controlled by an Arduino Nano,…
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Hot Spotter
Reading Time: 3 minutesMade from off-the-shelf hardware, including a Raspberry Pi 3A+, the Hot Spotter can survey an area to create a heat map. “As the drone flies over an area, it records average temperatures of spots on the ground,”explains Jason. “The size of the spot depends on how high the drone is flying, in…
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Please Leave A Message is an interactive plotter that spreads positivity
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlease Leave A Message is an interactive plotter that spreads positivity Arduino Team — May 11th, 2020 As Niklas Roy puts it, “Currently, times are weird.” It’s hard to argue with his sentiment and in order to add a bit more positivity to the world, or at least the area near his…
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This automated mask closes when others are near
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis automated mask closes when others are near Arduino Team — May 11th, 2020 In order to stop the spread of COVID-19, many of us are wearing face masks when outside of our homes. While this can be effective, these coverings can be hot, inhibit breathing, and certainly make eating and drinking…
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Go back in time with a Raspberry Pi-powered radio
Reading Time: 2 minutesTake a musical trip down memory lane all the way back to the 1920s. Sick of listening to the same dozen albums on repeat, or feeling stifled by the funnel of near-identical YouTube playlist rabbit holes? If you’re looking to broaden your musical horizons and combine that quest with a vintage-themed Raspberry…
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ZX Spectrum Next Accelerated review
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe keyboard is a thing of beauty. The keys are responsive, although the layout is a bit weird after years of muscle memory bonded to PC. It’s packed with connections: HDMI and VGA for video out; 3.5 mm ear and mic mini-jacks; PS/2 for keyboard and mouse; plus the mini HDMI and micro…
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Retro Nixie tube lights get smart
Reading Time: 2 minutesNixie tubes: these electronic devices, which can display numerals or other information using glow discharge, made their first appearance in 1955, and they remain popular today because of their cool, vintage aesthetic. Though lots of companies manufactured these items back in the day, the name ‘Nixie’ is said to derive from a…
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Code Robotron: 2084’s twin-stick action | Wireframe #38
Reading Time: 5 minutesNews flash! Before we get into our Robotron: 2084 code, we have some important news to share about Wireframe: as of issue 39, the magazine will be going monthly. The new 116-page issue will be packed with more in-depth features, more previews and reviews, and more of the guides to game development…
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Make a Sense HAT rainbow display for your window
Reading Time: 9 minutesBy following our step-by-step guide, you will discover how to light up rainbow and heart images on the Sense HAT’s LED matrix, as well as showing a custom scrolling message. If you don’t have a Sense HAT, you can still try out the code using the Sense HAT Emulator in Raspbian. Click…
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The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Guide out now!
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo coincide with the launch of the High Quality Camera, Raspberry Pi Press has released a new 132-page book to show you how to set it up, shoot great photos and videos, and use it in a range of inspiring projects. A step-by-step illustrated guide reveals how to attach a lens to…
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Learn at home: a guide for parents #2
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith millions of schools still in lockdown, parents have been telling us that they need help to support their children with learning computing at home. As well as providing loads of great content for young people, we’ve been working on support tutorials specifically for parents who want to understand and learn about…
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BiTipText enables text entry across two index finger-worn keyboards
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBiTipText enables text entry across two index finger-worn keyboards Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 Typing with your thumbs on a smartphone has become an everyday activity for many, but what if you could enter text by simply tapping on your index fingers? With BiTipText, that may soon be a reality. …
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How to work from home with Raspberry Pi | The Magpi 93
Reading Time: 7 minutesIf you find yourself working or learning, or simply socialising from home, Raspberry Pi can help with everything from collaborative productivity to video conferencing. Read more in issue #92 of The MagPi, out now. 01 Install the camera If you’re using a USB webcam, you can simply insert it into a USB…
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Arduino Pro IDE v0.0.6-alpha.preview is out!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Pro IDE v0.0.6-alpha.preview is out! Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 You can now install third party cores! We have developed a handy “Boards Control” feature to help you identify and configure third party boards. Try it out and give us your feedback. Highlights for this release include: Support for…
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Hamster Feeder
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I’d made a video about controlling servo motors using a Raspberry Pi and I wanted to follow that up with a simple, practical project that would put Raspberry Pi-controlled servos into action,” he explains. To that end, the Hamster Feeder was created as a tutorial for his YouTube channel, ExplainingComputers. “It would…
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Control your IKEA smart blinds with an IR remote
Reading Time: < 1 minuteControl your IKEA smart blinds with an IR remote Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 Hacker “replayreb” recently obtained some IKEA FYRTUR motorized blackout shades, but wasn’t satisfied with the stock remote control that comes with them. Instead he wanted to be able to open and shut the blinds with the…
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Nailz turns your fingernails into wearable input system for smart devices
Reading Time: 2 minutesNailz turns your fingernails into wearable input system for smart devices Arduino Team — May 4th, 2020 Researchers at UNIST in South Korea have developed a novel system for smart device input using touch-sensitive fingernails, called Nailz. As noted in the team’s paper, fingernails have long served as a site for body…