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The age of the Twitter bot
Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite changes to the process, setting up a Raspberry Pi as a Twitter bot is a fairly easy process. And while many such bots simply share time-lapse snapshots, or change the colour of LEDs across the globe, we know some that fill our timelines with fun, random joyfulness of a daily basis.…
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Stream weather conditions to the cloud!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStream weather conditions to the cloud! Arduino Team — November 26th, 2018 Weather reports on the news, your computer, or smartphone are very good—something that people 100 years ago could only dream of—but what if you want to know the exact weather in a fixed location from anywhere in the world?…
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Rotary phone transformed into home automation device
Reading Time: 2 minutesRotary phone transformed into home automation device Arduino Team — November 26th, 2018 While once an essential communication tool, rotary phones in the wild are quite a rarity today. Still, they do hold a certain charm, and hacker Kristiaan N. decided to turn one of these units into a clever home automation…
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Upgrade a sewing machine into an automatic embroidery rig
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpgrade a sewing machine into an automatic embroidery rig Arduino Team — November 26th, 2018 A needle and thread is extremely useful if you need to fasten a few pieces of fabric or sew on a button, and a sewing machine takes things up several notches in speed an accuracy. This venerable…
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Convert a Dremel tool into an Arduino-controlled CNC machine
Reading Time: 2 minutesConvert a Dremel tool into an Arduino-controlled CNC machine Arduino Team — November 26th, 2018 3D printers get most of the attention in maker-fabrication news, but other computerized tools, like laser cutters and CNC routers, can also be extremely useful. In fact, Nikodem Bartnik decided to create his own Dremel-based machine constructed…
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Customize your coffee cups with the Mug-O-Matic!
Reading Time: 2 minutesCustomize your coffee cups with the Mug-O-Matic! Arduino Team — November 25th, 2018 In order to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers, Michael Graham (AKA EngineerDog) has come up with a robot that automatically draws on coffee mugs with a marker—and potentially much more. In its nominal configuration, the Mug-O-Matic…
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Has someone cured the common cold with a Raspberry Pi?
Reading Time: 2 minutesNo. They haven’t. What’s taking you all so long? Alex has a cold I felt it coming on last night. That heavy-headedness. The slight tickle in my throat. Blurry vision, sudden chills, a desperate need for snuggles. Colds can go from zero to a hundred within minutes, and then, no matter how…
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Wireframe 2: The Blackout Club, Battlefield V anxiety, and more
Reading Time: 3 minutesMomentum firmly established, we’re back with our brilliant second issue of Wireframe — the magazine that lifts the lid on video games. And yes, we are continuing to write ‘video games’ as two words. Blacking out In our sophomore edition, you’ll discover all manner of great features, guides, reviews, and everything else…
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UK Scouts! New resources to support the Digital Maker badge
Reading Time: 2 minutesSix months ago, we announced our partnership with the Scout Association in the UK: we launched the new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge, releasing new badge requirements, along with resources for stages 1 and 2, to help tens of thousands of young people learn how to create with technology. Fun fact: when…
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From inspiration to innovation: Hands-On Coding blocks
Reading Time: 5 minutesMarcos Navas is a Union City Technology Facilitator with Union City school district in New Jersey and an active member of the maker, STEM, and coding communities. He was part of the first cohort of Raspberry Pi Certified Educators in the United States. Recently, he completed a fellowship with IDEO’s Teachers Guild…
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Literature dispenser
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are many things I do not know about Argentina. Until today, one of them was this: if you’re in an Argentinian bank, you may not use electronic devices. That includes phones and e-readers like the Kindle (and I can’t be the only person here who is pretty much surgically attached to…
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A new Raspbian update: multimedia, Python and more
Reading Time: 7 minutesToday we’re releasing a new update for Raspbian, including a multimedia player, updated Thonny, and more. Here’s Simon with everything you need to know. Updating Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi || Raspberry Pi Foundation How to update to the latest version of Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi. VLC Media Player When I…
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New product: Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ on sale now at $25
Reading Time: 2 minutesTL;DR: you can now get the 1.4GHz clock speed, 5GHz wireless networking and improved thermals of Raspberry Pi 3B+ in a smaller form factor, and at the smaller price of $25. Meet the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+. New Product Alert: Raspberry Pi 3A+ You can now get the 1.4GHz clock speed,…
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(Almost) autonomous kids’ vehicle with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minute(Almost) autonomous kids’ vehicle with Arduino Arduino Team — November 14th, 2018 While the world seems to be focusing on self-driving cars, maker Sieuwe Elferink has instead turned his attention to creating a semi-autonomous kids’ four-wheeler. As of now, the modified device can steer itself within a set of lines, and…
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Creep out guests with an Arduino-controlled teddy bear
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreep out guests with an Arduino-controlled teddy bear Arduino Team — November 14th, 2018 Halloween has become something of a hacker holiday, giving creative people the world over a chance to show off their spooky animatronic inventions outside without neighborhood scrutiny. This year, Instructables user “gocivici” created a display inspired by…
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The National Centre for Computing Education: your questions answered
Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week was a very exciting week for us, with the announcement of the National Centre for Computing Education: funded programmes for computing teachers and students for the next four years, to really support the growth and profile of our subject. For me and many others involved in this field over the…
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Arduino PRO Gateway for LoRa now available for pre-order
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino PRO Gateway for LoRa now available for pre-order Arduino Team — November 14th, 2018 We are very happy to announce the Arduino PRO Gateway for LoRa! Combined with Arduino MKR WAN 1300 IoT nodes, it makes an ideal solution for a wide range of applications, like smart agriculture, smart cities and building…
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Dual Arduino “CNC” control
Reading Time: 2 minutesDual Arduino “CNC” control Arduino Team — November 13th, 2018 Generally when you work with CNC machinery, you program it on a computer, then allow a controller to automatically run through a cutting routine. Arduino boards have long been used for this kind of control through the grbl software package, but YouTuber…
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Three-factor authentication is the new two-factor authentication
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo-factor authentication continues to provide our online selves with more security for our email and online banking. Meanwhile, in the physical world, protecting our valuables is now all about three-factor authentication. Not sure what I mean? Here’s a video from Switched On Network that demonstrates how to use a Raspberry Pi to build…
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I feel the earth move under my feet (in Michigan)
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Michigan is home to the largest stadium in the USA (the second-largest in the world!). So what better place to test for spectator-induced seismic activity than The Big House? The Michigan Shake University of Michigan geology professor Ben van der Pluijm decided to make waves by measuring the seismic…
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Anatomy of a product quality issue: PoE HAT
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the neat new features of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is its support for IEEE 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet (PoE). This standard allows up to 13W of power to be delivered over the twisted pairs in an Ethernet cable without interfering with the transmission of data. The Raspberry Pi board itself…
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Wireframe issue 1 is out now!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWireframe is our new twice-monthly magazine that lifts the lid on video games. In Wireframe, we look at how games are made, who makes them, and how you can make games of your own. And today, we’re releasing our very first issue! Wireframe: the new magazine that lifts the lid on video…
