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  • OTON GLASS: turning text to speech

    OTON GLASS: turning text to speech

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith OTON GLASS, users are able to capture text with a blink and have it read back to them in their chosen language. It’s wonderful tool for people with dyslexia or poor vision, or for travellers abroad. OTON GLASS A wearable device for people who have difficulty reading. OTON GLASS Inspired by his…

  • Strange vocal interactions with ‘you, me and all these machines’

    Strange vocal interactions with ‘you, me and all these machines’

    Reading Time: 2 minutesStrange vocal interactions with ‘you, me and all these machines’ Arduino Team — February 22nd, 2018 Moscow-based artist ::vtol:: is back again with an interesting interactive exhibit entitled “you, me and all these machines.” His latest work, a collaboration with Lovozero, allows two participants to produce otherworldly vocals together. One participant wears the…

  • Designing an Arduino-powered split-flap display

    Designing an Arduino-powered split-flap display

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDesigning an Arduino-powered split-flap display Arduino Team — February 22nd, 2018 If you’d like a split-flap display with numbers and letters, options tend to be quite expensive. This though was no problem for hacker “scottbez1” who reports that after “only” two-plus years of work, he has produced a split-flap assembly that plugs into…

  • MagPi 67: back to the future with retro computing on your Pi

    MagPi 67: back to the future with retro computing on your Pi

    Reading Time: 3 minutesHey folks, Rob from The MagPi here! While we do love modern computers here at The MagPi, we also have a soft spot for the classic machines of yesteryear, which is why we have a huge feature on emulating and upcycling retro computers in The MagPi issue 67, out right now. Retro…

  • qrocodile: the kid-friendly Sonos system

    qrocodile: the kid-friendly Sonos system

    Reading Time: 3 minutesChris Campbell’s qrocodile uses a Raspberry Pi, a camera, and QR codes to allow Chris’s children to take full control of the Sonos home sound system. And we love it! qrocodile Introducing qrocodile, a kid-friendly system for controlling your Sonos with QR codes. Source code is available at: https://github.com/chrispcampbell/qrocodile Learn more at: http://labonnesoupe.org…

  • Lunar landing conspiracy put to rest(?) with LIDAR

    Lunar landing conspiracy put to rest(?) with LIDAR

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLunar landing conspiracy put to rest(?) with LIDAR Arduino Team — February 20th, 2018 On July 20th, 1969 man first set foot on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, or so they say. If it was faked, or so the theory goes, one would think that there were a few details…

  • Mission Space Lab flight status announced!

    Mission Space Lab flight status announced!

    Reading Time: 6 minutesIn September of last year, we launched our 2017/2018 Astro Pi challenge with our partners at the European Space Agency (ESA). Students from ESA membership and associate countries had the chance to design science experiments and write code to be run on one of our two Raspberry Pis on the International Space…

  • Levitate water drops with RGB LEDs and Arduino

    Levitate water drops with RGB LEDs and Arduino

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLevitate water drops with RGB LEDs and Arduino Arduino Team — February 19th, 2018 Water normally falls from the sky to the ground, the time fountain from hacker isaac879 appears to work much differently. As shown in the video below, water droplets somehow levitate from a circular orange apparatus to a blue one…

  • Play Striker Air Hockey on a capacitive touch surface

    Play Striker Air Hockey on a capacitive touch surface

    Reading Time: 1 minutePlay Striker Air Hockey on a capacitive touch surface Arduino Team — February 19th, 2018 After discovering capacitive touch interactions with a Makey Makey device and an Arduino Leonardo, Jason Eldred realized it could also be used to control the Unity game engine. After a night of hacking, he had a basic…

  • Community Profile: Estefannie Explains It All

    Community Profile: Estefannie Explains It All

    Reading Time: 5 minutesThis column is from The MagPi issue 59. You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition through your letterbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve our charitable…

  • This IoT Pet Monitor barks back

    This IoT Pet Monitor barks back

    Reading Time: 3 minutesJennifer Fox, founder of FoxBot Industries, uses a Raspberry Pi pet monitor to check the sound levels of her home while she is out, allowing her to keep track of when her dog Marley gets noisy or agitated, and to interact with the gorgeous furball accordingly. Bark Back Project Demo A quick overview…

  • HackSpace magazine 4: the wearables issue

    HackSpace magazine 4: the wearables issue

    Reading Time: 3 minutesBig things are afoot in the world of HackSpace magazine! This month we’re running our first special issue, with wearables projects throughout the magazine. Moreover, we’re giving away our first subscription gift free to all 12-month print subscribers. Lastly, and most importantly, we’ve made the cover EXTRA SHINY! Prepare your eyeballs —…

  • Water speakers enhanced with an Arduino Mega

    Water speakers enhanced with an Arduino Mega

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWater speakers enhanced with an Arduino Mega Arduino Team — February 14th, 2018 Maker “cool austin” is a fan of water speakers, which pulse jets of water inside plastic enclosures to the beat of your music, but thought they could be improved. What he came up with is a multi-tower setup that…

  • Video game head tracking with Wii Remote camera

    Video game head tracking with Wii Remote camera

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteVideo game head tracking with Wii Remote camera Arduino Team — February 14th, 2018 While the Nintendo Wii has been on the market for well over 10 years, its controllers continue to provide a variety of tools for hacking. One component you may want to consider for your next hack is…

  • N-O-D-E’s always-on networked Pi Plug

    N-O-D-E’s always-on networked Pi Plug

    Reading Time: 3 minutesN-O-D-E’s Pi Plug is a simple approach to using a Raspberry Pi Zero W as an always-on networked device without a tangle of wires. Pi Plug 2: Turn The Pi Zero Into A Mini Server Today I’m back with an update on the Pi Plug I made a while back. This prototype…

  • Hacker House’s Zero W–powered automated gardener

    Hacker House’s Zero W–powered automated gardener

    Reading Time: 3 minutesAre the plants in your home or office looking somewhat neglected? Then build an automated gardener using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, with help from the team at Hacker House. Make a Raspberry Pi Automated Gardener See how we built it, including our materials, code, and supplemental instructions, on Hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/hackerhouse/automated-indoor-gardener-a90907 With…

  • YouTuber creates an organ out of 44 Furbies

    YouTuber creates an organ out of 44 Furbies

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYouTuber creates an organ out of 44 Furbies Arduino Team — February 12th, 2018 If you think Furbies have become extinct, think again, as musical hacker “Look Mum No Computer” has decided to revive a number of them to create his own Furby Organ. To make this horrifying yet awesome instrument,…

  • The Fisher Piano: make music in the air

    The Fisher Piano: make music in the air

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPiano keys are so limiting! Why not swap them out for LEDs and the wealth of instruments in Pygame to build air keys, as demonstrated by Instructables maker 2fishy? Raspberry Pi LED Light Schroeder Piano – Twinkle Little Star Raspberry Pi LED Light Schroeder Piano – Twinkle Little Star Keys? Where we’re…

  • Recreate Optimus Prime’s blaster with Arduino

    Recreate Optimus Prime’s blaster with Arduino

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecreate Optimus Prime’s blaster with Arduino Arduino Team — February 9th, 2018 YouTuber Bob Clagett has dreamed of creating his own life-sized Optimus Prime ion blaster for years, and now after hours of 3D printing and finishing, he finally has something worthy of that universe. While he opted to construct it in…

  • When tiny robot COZMO met our tiny Raspberry Pi

    When tiny robot COZMO met our tiny Raspberry Pi

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHack your COZMO for ultimate control, using a Raspberry Pi and this tutorial from Instructables user Marcelo ‘mjrovai’ Rovai. Cozmo – RPi 4 Full integration The complete tutorial can be found here: https://www.instructables.com/id/When-COZMO-the-Robot-Meets-the-Raspberry-Pi/ COZMO COZMO is a Python-programmable robot from ANKI that boasts a variety of on-board sensors and a camera, and that…

  • Pour Reception turns water into radio controls

    Pour Reception turns water into radio controls

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPour Reception turns water into radio controls Arduino Team — February 8th, 2018 Using a capacitive sensing arrangement, artists Tore Knudsen, Simone Okholm Hansen, and Victor Permild have come up with a way to interact with music with two glasses of water. One pours water into a glass to turn the radio on.…

  • Scribble is an Arduino-controlled haptic drawing robot

    Scribble is an Arduino-controlled haptic drawing robot

    Reading Time: 2 minutesScribble is an Arduino-controlled haptic drawing robot Arduino Team — February 8th, 2018 As part of his master’s studies at Eindhoven University, Felix Ros created a haptic drawing interface that uses a five-bar linkage system to not only take input from one’s finger, but also act as a feedback device via a…