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Automation HAT Mini review
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe board’s main connections for inputs and outputs are 3.5 mm screw terminals. As well as a single relay, there are three analogue inputs, three buffered inputs, and three sinking outputs. All of these are tolerant to voltages up to 24 V – which is fine for controlling a plethora of household devices that…
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An open source camera stack for Raspberry Pi using libcamera
Reading Time: 6 minutesSince we released the first Raspberry Pi camera module back in 2013, users have been clamouring for better access to the internals of the camera system, and even to be able to attach camera sensors of their own to the Raspberry Pi board. Today we’re releasing our first version of a new…
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This tape measure shows the time of day in inches
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis tape measure shows the time of day in inches Arduino Team — May 1st, 2020 Tape measures are great for determining length, width, and height. But what about the fourth dimension, time? Normally you’ll need a different device to show this ever-changing entity, but creators Alex Fiel and Anna Lynton…
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New book: The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Guide
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo coincide with yesterday’s launch of the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera, Raspberry Pi Press has created a new Official Camera Guide to help you get started and inspire your future projects. The Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Connecting a High Quality Camera turns your Raspberry Pi into a powerful digital camera.…
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How to use Raspberry Pi temperature & light sensors
Reading Time: 4 minutesTemperature & Light sensor projects: You’ll need Both projects in this tutorial make use of the PiAnalog Python library that lets you connect analogue sensors to Raspberry Pi without special hardware. Although these projects sense temperature and light, you could easily adapt them to use other types or resistive sensor, including stress…
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Recreating Sega’s Columns with Arduino!
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecreating Sega’s Columns with Arduino! Arduino Team — April 30th, 2020 In the early ’90s, Sega shipped its Game Gear console with a falling-block puzzle game called Columns. This Tetris-like game invited users to match colored “jewels” on the ground with lines of three new colors that drop from above. Michael A. Maynard envisioned…
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Emergency ventilators: from ideation to manufacturing
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by César Garcia, researcher at La Hora Maker. Welcome to the second article in this series on ventilators! As we’ve seen last week, ventilators are critical pieces of infrastructure. They must work reliably for long periods of time without missing a beat. Today we will uncover what are the…
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Work from Home and new High Quality Camera in The MagPi #93
Reading Time: 2 minutesClick here to buy The MagPi magazine issue #93 Work from home with Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi 4 is seeing a boom in use as a desktop computer for the home. Whether you’re working with Raspberry Pi, or learning, or looking to do video chat; Gareth Halfacree’s Work from home feature has…
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Win one of five Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera and lens!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe
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A Guide for Parents: How to Learn Electronics and Coding with the Arduino Student Kit
Reading Time: 3 minutesSchools have recently had to make a sudden and seismic shift in the way they teach. As both educators and students get used to remote learning, the onus is now more on parents to support their children through homeschool, and that means parents themselves need support. At Arduino Education, we want to…
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New product: Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera on sale now at $50
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe’re pleased to announce a new member of the Raspberry Pi camera family: the 12.3-megapixel High Quality Camera, available today for just $50, alongside a range of interchangeable lenses starting at $25. NEW Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://rpf.io/ytsub Help us reach a wider audience by translating…
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RetroPie for Raspberry Pi 4: video game emulation on our fastest-ever device
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor many of you out there, your first taste of Raspberry Pi is using it as a retro gaming emulator running RetroPie. Simple to install and use, RetroPie allows nostalgic gamers (and parents trying to educate their kids) the ability to play old-schoolskool classics on any monitor in their home, with cheap…
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These loo rolls formed a choir
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave all of y’all been hoarding toilet roll over recent weeks in an inexplicable response to the global pandemic, or is that just a quirk here in the UK? Well, the most inventive use of the essential household item we’ve ever seen is this musical project by Max Björverud. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf6pai97n2o] Ahh,…
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Add Arduino to your resume – the Arduino Certification Program is now available in Simplified Chinese
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd Arduino to your resume – the Arduino Certification Program is now available in Simplified Chinese Arduino Team — April 28th, 2020 With thousands of users around the world entering the Arduino Certification Program, we are excited to announce the availability of the first Arduino Certification Program: Arduino Fundamentals in Simplified Chinese.…
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An amazingly overkill model rocket launch controller
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn amazingly overkill model rocket launch controller Arduino Team — April 28th, 2020 Eddy Robinson has spent the last six months building a model rocket complete with a thrust vector control system for stabilization, along with a correspondingly epic launch console. His “overkill controller” is packed inside a rugged case and flips…
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Digital Making at Home
Reading Time: 2 minutesThousands of people have started engaging with Digital Making at Home. They’ve also had kids sharing their projects. Digital Making at Home is for kids who want to get into making things with technology and need a few pointers. If you or your friends are looking for ideas of how to entertain youngsters or…
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Build low-power, clock-controlled devices
Reading Time: 7 minutesDo you want to make a sensor with a battery life you can measure in days rather than hours? Even if it contains a (relatively!) power-hungry device like a Raspberry Pi? By cunning use of a real-time clock module, you can make something that wakes up, does its thing, and then goes…
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10 amazing Raspberry Pi audio projects
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe like yelling at our digital home assistant thing to skip the track it’s currently playing. It feels very Star Trek. Sometimes it’s more dramatic to wave the music away – just like with the Wavepad. This radio reads out your notifications from a variety of services. It doesn’t have an old-fashioned…
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WraPr is a spool-based system for creating and modifying 3D objects
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWraPr is a spool-based system for creating and modifying 3D objects Arduino Team — April 24th, 2020 When you purchase a spool of thread or wire, you expect it to be relatively uniform, spun in place with automated machinery that has been developed over hundreds of years. Researchers from MIT’s Media…
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An introduction to ventilators
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by César Garcia, researcher at La Hora Maker. SARS-CoV-2 virus has been spreading around the world since December 2019. The virus causes a coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19. This respiratory illness can cause a severe acute respiratory syndrome. Critical patients often require a ventilator during their…
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University of Toronto supports COVID-19 patient monitoring with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesA member of the Raspberry Pi community in Ontario, Canada spotted this story from the University of Toronto on CBC News. Engineers have created a device that enables healthcare workers to monitor COVID-19 patients continuously without the need to enter their hospital rooms. Continuous, remote monitoring Up-to-date information can be checked from any…
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This maker turned an antique typewriter into a MIDI drum machine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis maker turned an antique typewriter into a MIDI drum machine Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2020 Vintage typewriters are truly amazing pieces of technology, but unlike modern keyboards, they are decidedly one-purpose machines. William Sun Petrus, however, had other ideas for his 1920s-era Remington Portable typewriter, augmenting hammers with wires…