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Reading Time: 4 minutesNote: the Pi Towers team have peeled away from their desks to spend time with their families over the festive season, and this blog will be quiet for a while as a result. We’ll be back in the New Year with a bushel of amazing projects, awesome resources, and much merriment and fun times. Happy […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThese students made their own Guitar Hero-like video game Arduino Team — December 23rd, 2017 If you’d like to create your own simulated guitar from scratch, you’ll want to check out this project by Cornell ECE students Jake Podell and Jonah Wexler. It uses four conductive strings on the neck to sense which note is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesTurn a flatbed scanner into a PCB UV exposure device Arduino Team — December 23rd, 2017 If you want to create your own custom PCBs, you could design it and wait for a fab house to send it back, dealing with any errors, or you could do it yourself. Hacker Andras Kabai decided to go […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday, a guest post: Alasdair Davies, co-founder of Naturebytes, ZSL London’s Conservation Technology Specialist and Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, shares the work of the Arribada Initiative. The project uses the Raspberry Pi Zero and camera module to follow the journey of green sea turtles. The footage captured from the backs of these magnificent creatures is just incredible […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter an incredible response to our first issue of HackSpace magazine last month, we’re excited to announce today’s release of issue 2, complete with cheese making, digital braille, and…a crochet Cthulhu? Your spaces This issue, we visit Swansea Hackspace to learn how to crochet, we hear about the superb things that Birmingham’s fizzPOP maker space […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesCreate a custom Secret Santa trivia box with Arduino Arduino Team — December 20th, 2017 Participating in Reddit’s Secret Santa this year, hacker “Haxxa” decided to go all out, picking out not only several gifts for the recipient, but an Arduino-powered trivia box to house them in. In use, an Arduino Nano onboard feeds queries to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesInteract with the virtual world in a whole new way Arduino Team — December 20th, 2017 As reported by the Creative Applications Network, “Tangibles Worlds explores the effects of tactile experience as a catalyst for full immersion in VR.” The project by Stella Speziali takes the form of three separate boxes, along with an Oculus Rift […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesHey folks, Rob from The MagPi here! We know many people might be getting their very first Raspberry Pi this Christmas, and excitedly wondering “what do I do with it?” While we can’t tell you exactly what to do with your Pi, we can show you how to immerse yourself in the world of Raspberry […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis control panel references your favorite sci-fi films Arduino Team — December 19th, 2017 While you may question if some of the blinking lights and buttons in science fiction movies actually do anything, you’d still really like to hit those buttons just to see what happens, right? If that sounds like you, then something like […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStar Wars fan creates an Arduino-powered rebel pilot chest box Arduino Team — December 19th, 2017 If you’d like a rebel fighter pilot suit, complete with the automated chest box, then look no further than this excellent build from “badjer1.” It features a chest box with the same dimensions seen in the movies that lights […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you see Mommy kissing Santa Claus? Or was it simply an imposter? The Not Santa detector is here to help solve the mystery once and for all. Building a “Not Santa” detector on the Raspberry Pi using deep learning, Keras, and Python The video is a demo of my “Not Santa” detector that I deployed […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBeating the contestants at Countdown: is it cheating if you happen to know every word in the English dictionary? Rosie plays Countdown Allow your robots to join in the fun this Christmas with a round of Channel 4’s Countdown. https://www.rosietheredrobot.com/2017/12/tea-minus-30.html Rosie the Red Robot First, a little bit of backstory. Challenged by his eldest daughter […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatic trash can optimized for battery life Arduino Team — December 15th, 2017 If you have a trash can with a lid, you’ve probably accepted the small inconvenience of opening it with your hand and foot. YouTube hacker MadGyver, however, came up with a different solution using an Arduino Nano and a micro servo to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwinkly lights are to Christmas what pumpkins are to Halloween. And when you add a Raspberry Pi to your light show, the result instantly goes from “Meh, yeah.” to “OMG, wow!” Here are some cool light-based Christmas projects to inspire you this weekend. App-based light control Christmas Tree Lights Demo Project Code – https://github.com/eidolonFIRE/Christmas-Lights Raspberry […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew search engine and Arduino reference! mastrolinux — December 14th, 2017 The Arduino web team has working hard behind the scenes improving our legacy systems. Now, it’s time to work on something more interesting for the team and more useful for our community! From here on out, we will update you every month on the latest and greatest activities… Today, we […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSlide the “time clock” into position with Arduino Arduino Team — December 14th, 2017 Years ago, if you wanted to track employee hours, you needed to have them punch a time card. Saunders Machine Works, however, uses a facial recognition system running on an iPad for this purpose, meaning they had to figure out how […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesSolving problems that are meaningful to us is at the core of our approach to teaching and learning about technology here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Over the last eight months, I’ve noticed that the types of digital making projects that motivate and engage me have changed (can’t think why). Always looking for ways to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute3D-printed miniature roller coaster powered by Arduino Mega Arduino Team — December 13th, 2017 While many enjoy roller coasters, few can claim the same dedication of engineer Matt Schmotzer, who 3D-printed a 1/25th scale replica of Invertigo, a boomerang coaster at Kings Island in Ohio. As reported on 3D Printer Chat, the CAD model took […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesSpyrul breathed new life into his great-grandparents’ 1930s Westinghouse with a Raspberry Pi, an amplifier HAT, Google Music, and some serious effort. The result is a really beautiful, striking piece. The radio With a background in radio electronics, Spyrul had always planned to restore his great-grandparents’ mid-30s Westinghouse radio. “I even found the original schematics […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis DIY machine mixes your favorite three-ingredient cocktail Arduino Team — December 12th, 2017 Do you and your friends have a favorite cocktail? If so—and if it has three ingredients—then this Arduino-based cocktail machine from YouTuber “GreatScott!” may be worth checking out. The device is capable of mixing three liquids, which in GreatScott’s case consist […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesShe asked for help, and you came to her aid. Pioneers, the winners of the Only you can save us challenge have been picked! Can you see me? Only YOU can save us! I need your help. This is a call out for those between 11- and 16-years-old in the UK and Republic of Ireland. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a beat by nodding your head Arduino Team — December 11th, 2017 If you are really enjoying a song, you may start to bob your head to the tunes, but what if you could instead create actual music with this subtle movement? That’s exactly what Andrew Lee’s “Nod Bang” system accomplishes. An accelerometer mounted […]