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Reading Time: 4 minutesThis column is from The MagPi issue 58. 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 goals. Dr Lucy […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’re an educator from the UK, chances are you’ve heard of Bett. For everyone else: Bett stands for British Education Technology Tradeshow. It’s the El Dorado of edtech, where every street is adorned with interactive whiteboards, VR headsets, and new technologies for the classroom. Every year since 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesCue the lights! Cue the music! Picademy is back for another year stateside. We’re excited to bring our free computer science and digital making professional development program for educators to four new cities this summer — you can apply right now. We’re thrilled to kick off our 2018 season! Before we get started, let’s take […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKid’s kitchen beeps with the help of an Arduino Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 While Roald Hendriks is quite pleased with the build quality of the IKEA DUKTIG play kitchen, it does lack one thing—the ability to say “beep.” This feature was requested by his daughter, who for her third birthday wanted “a kitchen […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesRotary encoders and Arduino combine for awesome universal remote Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 In his latest hack, “Matlek” has come up with an entirely new take on the universal remote, using a pair of rotary encoders instead of an array of buttons to output up to 400 individual signals. One 20-step encoder in […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatic guitar strumming with Arduino Uno and chopsticks Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 If you like to make music, but don’t consider yourself particularly talented, YouTuber Make It And Fake It has come up with an innovative solution. Her device uses an Arduino Uno, along with a hobby servo motor to move a pair […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery school year, we run the European Astro Pi challenge to find the next generation of space scientists who will program two space-hardened Raspberry Pi units, called Astro Pis, living aboard the International Space Station. Italian ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli with the Astro Pi units. Image credit ESA. Astro Pi Mission Zero The 2017–2018 challenge included […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router Arduino Team — January 30th, 2018 In order to get a good cut with a CNC router, the cutting tool speed needs to be properly set. Since his CNC didn’t come with RPM feedback, Troy Barbour came up with his own solution using an Arduino Nano along with […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe tale of the little HAB that could and its three-month journey from Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in the UK to the coast of Denmark. PACA Computing on Twitter Where did it land ???? #skypaca #skycademy @pacauk #RaspberryPi High-altitude ballooning Some of you may be familiar with Raspberry Pi being used as the flight computer, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While largely supplanted by more modern forms of printing, dot matrix printers still have their fans. Few, however, are more dedicated than Nikodem Bartnik, who constructed his own model that pulls paper up to 55cm wide and as long as he needs under […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesFall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While some fall asleep nearly immediately with no assistance, others need the drone of a fan or a dedicated noisemaker to help them relax. The Fall Asleep Device, also known as “FADing,” by Youz takes a different approach. FADing shines an […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs we head into 2018 and start looking forward to longer days in the Northern hemisphere, I thought I’d take a look back at last year’s weather using data from Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Stations. One of the great things about the kit is that as well as uploading all its readings to the shared […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesHey folks, Rob from The MagPi here! Issue 66 of The MagPi is out right now, with the ultimate guide to powering your home media with Raspberry Pi. We think the Pi is the perfect replacement or upgrade for many media devices, so in this issue we show you how to build a range of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re making with a purpose in issue 3 of HackSpace magazine. Not only are we discovering ways in which 3D printing is helping to save resources — and in some case lives — in the developing world, we’re also going all out with recycling. While others might be content with separating their glass and plastic […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a custom Kerbal Space Program cockpit with Arduino Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 When you play a video game, the controls are normally a compromise between what you have available (a keyboard/mouse) and the actions you’re trying to convey. This, however, wasn’t good enough for Kerbal Space Program enthusiast Hugo Peeters, who instead […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesCrawl through a 1D LED dungeon with TWANG! Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 While video games have grown more and more complex over the last few decades, TWANG takes things in the opposite direction as an Arduino Mega-based 1D dungeon crawler consisting of an RGB LED strip. The player—a dot—is controlled via an accelerometer mounted to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Create plans for education now available! Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 Today, we’re excited to announce that Arduino Create is now available for schools with Chrome OS devices in their classrooms. With Arduino Create, students and teachers will be able to tinker with Arduino hardware and programming in a collaborative, always up-to-date environment. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter getting in contact with us to share their latest build with us, we invited Matvey Fridman of Germany-based production company Spiegelbilder Studio to write a guest blog post about their CRT video walls created for the band STRANDKØNZERT. STRANDKØNZERT – TAGTRAUMER – OFFICIAL VIDEO GERMAN DJENT RAP / EST. 2017. COMPLETE DIY-PROJECT. CRT video […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Arduino infinity mirror lights up to music Arduino Team — January 23rd, 2018 Infinity mirrors, which make light appear to stretch to infinity by bouncing light between two mirrors, are incredible to observe. Hacker “Evocate” decided to go the extra mile and not only illuminate the inside of his mirror arrangement, but used an […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith Raspberry Pi projects using home assistant services such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home becoming more and more popular, we invited Raspberry Pi maker Matt ‘Raspberry Pi Spy‘ Hawkins to write a guest post about his latest project, the Pi Spy Alexa Skill. Pi Spy Skill The Alexa system uses Skills to provide voice-activated […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake an interactive coffee table with Arduino and LEDs Arduino Team — January 22nd, 2018 Rather than buying a coffee table, Marija from Creativity Hero decided to build her own, adding an array of 45 programmable LEDs on top of a pine base. An Arduino Mega is used to take input from 45 sensors corresponding to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesCoolest Projects is a world-leading annual showcase that empowers and inspires the next generation of digital creators, innovators, changemakers, and entrepreneurs. Young people come to the event to exhibit the cool ideas they have been working on throughout the year. And from 2018, Coolest Projects is open to young people across the Raspberry Pi community. […]