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What makes a mechanical keyboard ‘clicky’?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn our latest video for the newly rebranded Raspberry Pi Press YouTube channel, Custom PC’s Edward Chester explains what mechanical keyboards are, and why they’re so clicky. How do mechanical keyboards work? So, what makes a mechanical keyboard ‘mechanical’? And why are some mechanical keyboards more ‘clicky’ than others? Custom PC’s Edward…
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Andrew Suttle interview
Reading Time: 3 minutes“My first Raspberry Jam was CamJam in autumn 2013, when I showed some programs I had written,” Andrew tells us. “I also enjoy developing robots and doing electronics. I first went to the Colchester club run by John Woods in 2016, when I built a robot car using a Raspberry Pi. The…
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Will Cogley’s tester controls 16 servos simultaneously
Reading Time: 2 minutesWill Cogley’s tester controls 16 servos simultaneously Arduino Team — January 5th, 2020 When you need to test a single servo, it’s a fairly straightforward task. Just hook it up to an Arduino to generate the proper PWM signal, along with an appropriate power supply, and you’re in business. If, however, you…
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Designing a two-axis gesture-controlled platform for DSLR cameras
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesigning a two-axis gesture-controlled platform for DSLR cameras Arduino Team — January 3rd, 2020 Holding your phone up to take an occasional picture is no big deal, but for professional photographers who often need to manipulate heavier gear for hours on end, this can actually be quite tiring. With this in mind,…
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Cheeseborg project showcase
Reading Time: 4 minutesMaking a splash with your final-year university project can be the ideal way to gain the attention of potential employers and land yourself your dream job. Appealing to your lecturers’ and classmates’ stomachs is also a pretty effective way of getting them onside. Hearing from Taylor Tabb about the robot project he…
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SmartiPi Touch 2 review
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe SmartiPi case is designed to work with the 7-inch official Raspberry Pi touchscreen, effectively turning a Raspberry Pi into a (bulky) tablet or fixed monitor. As there’s no real room for rechargeable batteries as standard, it works better in a more fixed environment. One of the unique features of the SmartiPi…
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This 3D-printed infinity cube is easy to make, hard to resist
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 3D-printed infinity cube is easy to make, hard to resist Arduino Team — December 31st, 2019 Infinity cubes use six mirrors arranged in such a way that they bounce light inside back and forth, making them appear to stretch on to infinity. While not the first to make such a device,…
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The biggest Raspberry Pi projects of 2019
Reading Time: 4 minutesRaspberry Pi NAS and Samba Raspberry Pi 4 introduced improved throughput on the Ethernet port, taking it up to full-fat Gigabit speeds. So it’s perhaps no surprise that building a super-fast NAS (network attached storage) drive was top of the wish-list for many a Raspberry Pi owner. Given the popularity of NAS,…
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Build your child a wooden MP3 player for $100
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild your child a wooden MP3 player for $100 Arduino Team — December 30th, 2019 If your young child wants to listen to music, what better way than a beautiful wooden MP3 “radio,” with an array of buttons that select the album? After being inspired by a similar commercial product, Redditor “DerThes”…
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Build your child a wooden MP3 player for $100
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild your child a wooden MP3 player for $100 Arduino Team — December 30th, 2019 If your young child wants to listen to music, what better way than a beautiful wooden MP3 “radio,” with an array of buttons that select the album? After being inspired by a similar commercial product, Redditor “DerThes”…
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Enviro pHAT Raspberry Pi review
Reading Time: 2 minutesSee also: Enviro + review The Enviro (£28/$30. Pimoroni)also features the same slimline pHAT form factor to match the size of a Raspberry Pi Zero, although it can be used with any Raspberry Pi model. Sensing the world The Enviro’s BME280 weather sensor monitors temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity. As on the…
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How to set up and use your brand-new Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’re reading this, it’s probably because you bagged yourself a brand-new Raspberry Pi for Christmas, and you’re wondering what you should do next. Well, look no further, for we’re here to show you the ropes. So, sit back, pull on a pair of those nice, warm socks that you found in…
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How to set up and use your brand-new Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’re reading this, it’s probably because you bagged yourself a brand-new Raspberry Pi for Christmas, and you’re wondering what you should do next. Well, look no further, for we’re here to show you the ropes. So, sit back, pull on a pair of those nice, warm socks that you found in…
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Organnery pipe organ
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaphaël tell us that he increasingly found components for first-generation digital pipe organs – many of which are installed in churches across the world – to be either obsolete, expensive, or simply unobtainable, threatening to consign many an instrument to the scrap-heap. The solution has been Organnery, a project to to strip…
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Full control of your TV using Alexa and Arduino IoT Cloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesFull control of your TV using Alexa and Arduino IoT Cloud Arduino Team — December 23rd, 2019 We’re excited to announce that the official Arduino Amazon Alexa skill now supports television control. You can now securely connect your TV set to Alexa using Arduino IoT Cloud and a few lines of code.…
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HeyTeddy is a conversation-based prototyping tool for Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesProgramming an Arduino to do simple things like turn on an LED or read a sensor is easy enough via the official IDE. However, think back to your first experiences with this type of hardware. While rewarding, getting everything set up correctly was certainly more of a challenge, requiring research that you…
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arduino-cli 0.7.0 is out!
Reading Time: < 1 minutearduino-cli 0.7.0 is out! Arduino Team — December 20th, 2019 Our dev team is about to kick off their holiday breaks, but not without sharing some exciting news first: the release of arduino-cli 0.7.0! Highlights include: Notarization compliance for macOS Some breaking changes: Remove Sketchbook concept, introduce user data folder “lib…
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Raspberry Pi 3 baby monitor | Hackspace magazine #26
Reading Time: 7 minutesYou might have a baby/dog/hamster that you want to keep an eye on when you’re not there. We understand: they’re lovely, especially hamsters. Here’s how HackSpace magazine contributor Dr Andrew Lewis built a Raspberry Pi baby cam to watch over his small creatures… When a project is going to be used in…
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ZX Spectrum Next Raspberry Pi project showcase
Reading Time: 4 minutes“For me, the goal has been to encourage a new generation of bedroom coders,” says legendary games developer Jim Bagley, who is among a group of Spectrum fans behind the project. Jim has been programming games professionally for the past 31 years and is a key member of the specnext.com team dedicated to bringing back the ZX Spectrum. With 3113 Kickstarter backers handing over £723,390 in…
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Hands-free Raspberry Pi Airdrum | The MagPi 89
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’re always going to beat the drum for projects that seek to improve the lives of people with disabilities. That’s why we fell in love with the Airdrum, which was created to allow anyone, in particular people with disabilities, to play a musical instrument. The Airdrum – speaker and MIDI song demo…
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50 Raspberry Pi tips and tools in The MagPi magazine issue 89
Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of projects need specific tools, and there’s a lot out there to choose from. Raspberry Pi maker Mark Vanstone takes a look at the 50 best physical and digital tools you can use to build projects. Click here to buy The MagPi magazine issue #89 Raspberry Pi kit & gadget…
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Build your own tracking and GoTo mount for DSLR astrophotography
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuild your own tracking and GoTo mount for DSLR astrophotography Arduino Team — December 18th, 2019 Astrophotography can be challenging, in a large part because your subject matter — or your base, the Earth rather — is constantly moving. In order to take excellent long exposures of far-off objects, Redditor intercipere…