Kategorie: Mobile
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Radiation detecting Geiger counter
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis prompted him to create a device using a Raspberry Pi Pico W. “Radiation is not something you can feel, see, taste, hear, or smell,” he says. “So, I created a device designed to be a silent observer of the ionising radiation levels in my city. I wanted it to become the…
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James Bruton’s robot centipede of many legs
Reading Time: 2 minutesStrangely, no centipede has exactly 100 legs. They can have either more or fewer than 100 legs, but not exactly 100 because they always have an odd number of pairs. Sadly, that means that James Bruton’s centipede robot is anatomically incorrect — though cool nonetheless. Bruton built this centipede robot as a scaled-down prototype,…
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Smart bedside mat won’t let you snooze your alarm
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is one thing that we can agree on: more sleep is better. None of us want to wake up, which makes that snooze button oh so tempting. That leads to the inevitable cycle of pushing the snooze button over and over again until suddenly you find yourself let for work or your kid’s…
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PiBoy XRS handheld games console review
Reading Time: 3 minutesTaking design notes from the original Game Boy, Neo Geo Pocket, and just about every portable game system since the release of the Game Boy Advance, this updated kit also whacks on a second analogue stick for much improved playability. Instead of two shoulder buttons, there are now four, and while that…
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Portenta C33: The high-performance, low-price oxymoron
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile democratizing professional solutions may seem like an oxymoron, that’s exactly what Arduino Pro is out to achieve. Our business-oriented unit stands at industrial clients’ side with a growing ecosystem of high-performance, reliable, secure products that aim to provide the right solution for every need big and small companies may have, in…
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Celebrate Pi Day by supporting the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is officially Pi Day. While 14 March is an opportunity for our American friends to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi, we are also very happy to make this day a chance to say a massive thank you to everyone who supports the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s work through their generous donations. More…
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This beautiful clock features circuit sculpture faux Nixie tubes
Reading Time: 2 minutesEveryone loves a nice Nixie tube clock, but Nixie tubes are expensive and difficult to find. Even if you can source a working set, driving the vintage tubes is a complicated undertaking by modern standards. Nixie tubes require high voltage and multiplexing, which is a pain. To solve these problems while retaining…
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Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with GoogleCelebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with GoogleGlobal Head of Women’s Community & Programs
Reading Time: 2 minutesUse digital tools to grow and thrive Search interest in “cost of living” reached a 10-year high in the U.S. in 2022, as many people continue to find new ways to manage financial uncertainty. For women in the United States looking for information about financial assistance, including federal government benefits like the…
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4 new stories of women founders on Google Play4 new stories of women founders on Google PlaySenior Director
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDespite having no tech background, Jelena has become a pioneer of the gaming industry in Montenegro. While working in HR, she was asked to set up one of the first gaming studios in the country. 3Hills‘ debut was Starblind, an endless adventure in outer space where players face UFOs and explore…
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Lamptopus: The most adorable desk lamp in the world
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes the only motivation you need for a project is “because I want to.” That is especially true for cute and quirky decoration that doesn’t need to prioritize functionality. The perfect example of this is Ruby Zoom’s Lamptopus, which is the most adorable desk lamp in the world. Lamptopus is a small…
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Learn how to drive flip-disc displays with your Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore digital display technology became affordable and practical, electromechanical flip-disc (AKA “flip-dot”) displays were a popular choice thanks to their high visibility and ability to scale to large sizes. For all practical purposes, flip-disc displays have been obsolete for decades. But we’re seeing a resurgence in demand for them, as they have…
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Improve your data analysis with the Advanced Chart Widget for Arduino Cloud
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’re excited to announce the release of our latest Arduino Cloud feature, the Advanced Chart Widget! This new and improved widget is a significant upgrade from our previous chart widget, offering more customization options and functionality that will make it easier than ever to visualize and analyze your device data. In this…
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Alternative Flight Simulator
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst class upgrade Apart from the seats, and various aesthetic aircraft appendages, there are two key sections to the Alternative Flight Simulator that help provide an authentic passenger experience. Firstly, Alex has constructed a ‘flight selector panel’ that the passenger uses to select the airport where they wish to land (and there…
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HEXA LEDs make Bluetooth-controlled accent lighting affordable
Reading Time: 2 minutesLED accent lighting is very trendy right now, as it can add quite a lot of visual interest to a room without introducing clutter. But commercial products are often either very expensive or subpar in quality and capability. Fortunately for makers, this kind of project is perfect for a DIY weekend build.…
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Ping pong robot lets you dial-in the serves
Reading Time: 2 minutesPing pong is one of the most popular sports in the world, but that doesn’t mean that it is easy to find people to practice with. Lone players are typically forced to practice by using return boards (or one half of the table flipped up), but that is overly predictable. To provide…
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Portenta X8 in Arduino IoT Cloud
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou may have heard about Portenta X8 for its flexibility of usage of Linux combined with real-time applications through the Arduino environment. But now, a new set of features have been added to Portenta X8 thanks to its brand-new Arduino Python container. Update your board with the latest image (here is a…
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A vocational digital skills course in Kakuma refugee camp: Connecting to learners’ lives
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe are working in partnership with Amala Education to pilot a vocational skills course for displaced learners aged 16 to 25 in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Kakuma camp was set up in Kenya in 1992, following a civil war in neighbouring South Sudan in East Africa. Today, 2 million people are living…
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Turn your lights on and off by staring at this little robotic switch
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnlike every other hands-free light switch that relies on infrared motion detection or changes in ambient light values, Michael Rigsby’s “Look at Me Light Switch” instead requires a person to stare at it for six seconds. Based on an embedded machine learning model and a microcontroller, this device uses Person Sensor from Useful Sensors,…
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Predicting when a fan fail by listening to it
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmbedded audio classification is a very powerful tool when it comes to predictive maintenance, as a wide variety of sounds can be distinguished as either normal or harmful several times per second automatically and reliably. To demonstrate how this pattern recognition could be incorporated into a commercial setting, Kevin Richmond created the Listen Up…
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Get More Out of Your Smartphone with Arduino
Reading Time: 5 minutesOur smartphones go pretty much everywhere with us, and we use them for more things than we even realize. From literally the very moment we’re startled into life in the morning, until the one final doom scroll through social media before bed, our phones are with us. It makes sense, then, to…
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How can computing education promote an equitable digital future? Ideas from research
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) focuses on innovation and technology for gender equality. This cause aligns closely with our mission as a charity: to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. An important part of our mission is to shift the gender…
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Plasma Stick 2040 W (Pico W Aboard)
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo get you up and running quickly, the Plasma Stick 2040 W is preloaded with Pimoroni’s own brand of MicroPython firmware, complete with a fair few example programs, including fire, rainbow, snow, and sparkle effects. These can easily be adapted to suit the number of LEDs in your strip. Alternatively you can…
