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This infinity mirror coffee table puts other living room furniture to shame
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis infinity mirror coffee table puts other living room furniture to shame Arduino Team — April 13th, 2020 Coffee tables generally sit between a couch and TV, providing a convenient place to set your cup, snack, or magazine. As proven by Redditor Procupine however, with the addition of an Arduino Mega and a “mere”…
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Digital Making at Home: Make us laugh!
Reading Time: 3 minutesWelcome back for another exciting week of Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! Get ready to keep the coding going, and if you’re joining us for the first time, we’re so thrilled to have you! All of the stories you sent us from across the world last week were…
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Greg’s Harp is an Arduino-powered robotic string instrument
Reading Time: 2 minutesGreg’s Harp is an Arduino-powered robotic string instrument Arduino Team — April 12th, 2020 Frank Piesik recently designed a robotic three-stringed instrument for his friend, Gregor, that features a unique sound and mechanical arrangement. Notes are selected by an array of 12 servos — four for each string — which pull down…
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This system enables users to create room-sized interactive surfaces with spray paint
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis system enables users to create room-sized interactive surfaces with spray paint Arduino Team — April 11th, 2020 If you’ve ever thought of adding a user interface to an everyday surface — like a concrete wall, or even a sofa — MIT CSAIL’s SprayableTech system presents a variety of interesting possibilities. Input…
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Crunch your way through morning meetings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, so, we’re not really here. It is a public holiday in the UK and we are all between three and seventeen pounds of Easter chocolate and hot cross buns deep. Our teeth hurt. Anyway, we’re not sure what possessed our cute friends over at Deep Local to do this, but…
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Control a stepper motor using a laptop touchpad
Reading Time: < 1 minuteControl a stepper motor using a laptop touchpad Arduino Team — April 10th, 2020 While laptops eventually become past their prime, many of the underlying bits and pieces are still functional and could be reused. If you’re wondering what to do with an old touchpad, especially one with a Synaptics chip,…
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Control a stepper motor using a laptop touchpad
Reading Time: < 1 minuteControl a stepper motor using a laptop touchpad Arduino Team — April 10th, 2020 While laptops eventually become past their prime, many of the underlying bits and pieces are still functional and could be reused. If you’re wondering what to do with an old touchpad, especially one with a Synaptics chip,…
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Make a Side Pocket-esque pool game | Wireframe #36
Reading Time: 7 minutesRecreate the arcade pool action of Data East’s Side Pocket. Raspberry Pi’s own Mac Bowley has the code. In the original Side Pocket, the dotted line helped the player line up shots, while additional functions on the UI showed where and how hard you were striking the cue ball. Created by Data…
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Solar-powered Raspberry Pi Camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thing led to another. “I wanted to monitor the construction site remotely because we currently live 100 kilometres away,” he says. But rather than buy an off-the-shelf CCTV system, he purchased a dummy camera case, creating his own way of capturing images using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B computer. “From…
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A mesmerizing magnetic clock for your wall
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mesmerizing magnetic clock for your wall Arduino Team — April 8th, 2020 Magnets are amazing devices, and thanks to this project by “tomatoskins,” they can even be used to mysteriously tell time. His project uses magnets hidden behind a classic walnut veneer to rotate a pair of ball bearings around the…
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Digital making at home: a guide for parents
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog post is for parents. Specifically, it’s for parents who want to help their kids get into making things with technology but don’t know where to start. Lots of us at the Raspberry Pi Foundation are parents too, and right now we’re also all trying to figure out how to keep…
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The Orb is a “rolly, tumbly, singy” synthesizer by Emily Velasco
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Orb is a “rolly, tumbly, singy” synthesizer by Emily Velasco Arduino Team — April 7th, 2020 Some years ago, Emily Velasco started exploring the idea of creating a musical instrument based on a pendulum. This didn’t work out exactly the way she’d planned, but after several iterations — and inspiration from…
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The Orb is a “rolly, tumbly, singy” synthesizer by Emily Velasco
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Orb is a “rolly, tumbly, singy” synthesizer by Emily Velasco Arduino Team — April 7th, 2020 Some years ago, Emily Velasco started exploring the idea of creating a musical instrument based on a pendulum. This didn’t work out exactly the way she’d planned, but after several iterations — and inspiration from…
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Tweet with Morse code
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’ll need Let’s get set up First, select the right Raspberry Pi model for the job. Of course, we would heartily recommend a Raspberry Pi 4, but in fact this project will not be too demanding on even the oldest models, so it is great for upcycling an older Raspberry Pi computer.…
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Tweet with Morse code
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’ll need Let’s get set up First, select the right Raspberry Pi model for the job. Of course, we would heartily recommend a Raspberry Pi 4, but in fact this project will not be too demanding on even the oldest models, so it is great for upcycling an older Raspberry Pi computer.…
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Five years of Raspberry Pi clusters
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this guest blog post, OpenFaaS founder and Raspberry Pi super-builder Alex Ellis walks us down a five-year-long memory lane explaining how things have changed for cluster users. I’ve been writing about running Docker on Raspberry Pi for five years now and things have got a lot easier than when I started…
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Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium – recap of our online event
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Wednesday, we hosted the first-ever Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium online. Research in computing education, particularly in school and for young people, is a young field compared to maths and science education, and we do not have much in terms of theoretical foundations. It is not a field that has received…
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Maker pHAT review
Reading Time: 2 minutesCytron’s Maker pHAT attempts to solve these issues and make it a lot simpler to get started with physical computing on Raspberry Pi. Purple PCB The cool-looking purple PCB has some common components already on board and connected to certain GPIO pins. Along with three small push-buttons, there’s an active buzzer and…
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Digital Making at Home: Storytelling with code
Reading Time: 3 minutesWelcome back to Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! If you’re joining us for the first time this week, welcome: you’re now part of a global movement with other young digital makers from all over the world. You’re in great company, friend! You all CRUSHED making your own games…
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DIY collective control lever for a helicopter flight sim
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDIY collective control lever for a helicopter flight sim Arduino Team — April 3rd, 2020 Kaleb Clark really enjoys flight simulators, but when attempting to fly a helicopter, a normal keyboard or even a joystick isn’t quite optimal for controlling its vertical movement. Real helicopters use a lever assembly called a…
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Instaclock | The Magpi 92
Reading Time: 4 minutesDesigned to celebrate a new home, Instaclock uses two Raspberry Pi computers to great visual effect. Rosie Hattersley introduces maker Riccardo Cereser’s eyecatching build in issue #92 of The MagPi, out now. There is nothing like a deadline to focus the mind! Copenhagen-based illustrator and UX designer Riccardo Cereser was about to…
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Reachy
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhich part of Reachy you’ll love, however, will mostly depend on the configuration you decide to buy – assuming you have enough money, given that the prices start at €9990. The basic model, for instance, comes with just a torso and one arm, while ‘expressive’ adds a Johnny Five-like head. An advanced…
