Kategorie: Mobile
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Make your own micro FPV drone racing gate
Reading Time: 2 minutesDrone racing is an increasingly popular hobby, especially as high-performance drones get more and more affordable. Racing drones can reach 200mph and a huge part of the skill set necessary for competition is the pilot’s ability to navigate through gates at high speed. Those gates mark check points on the course, a…
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7 ways Android helps your devices work better together7 ways Android helps your devices work better togetherVP of Engineering, Android
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt CES 2023, we’re sharing our progress toward delivering helpful experiences across your devices, regardless of brand.At CES 2023, we’re sharing our progress toward delivering helpful experiences across your devices, regardless of brand. Website: LINK
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Uninterrupted listening across devices with AndroidUninterrupted listening across devices with AndroidDirector of Product Management, Android
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt CES 2023, we’ll share new experiences for bringing media with you across devices and our approach to helping devices work better together.At CES 2023, we’ll share new experiences for bringing media with you across devices and our approach to helping devices work better together. Website: LINK
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Bringing the best of Android to improve your driveBringing the best of Android to improve your driveDirector of Product and User Experience
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAndroid for Cars is rolling out new updates across Android Auto, digital car key, and cars with Google built-in.Android for Cars is rolling out new updates across Android Auto, digital car key, and cars with Google built-in. Website: LINK
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PiCar entertainment system
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I have made extensive modification to my Jeep, including replacing the motor with a Chevy LS 6.0 V8,” Vincent tells us. “This required some hacking into the Jeep’s CAN bus to fool the Jeep into thinking it still has a motor. There is so much useful information present on the network that…
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Have you heard? Nicla Voice is out at CES 2023!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs announced at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, our tiny form factor family keeps growing: the 22.86 x 22.86 mm Nicla range now includes Nicla Voice, allowing for easy implementation of always-on speech recognition on the edge. How? Let’s break it down. 1. The impressive sensor package. Nicla Voice comes with a…
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Arduino brings birthday cake to life
Reading Time: 2 minutesA good birthday cake is all about the decoration. Usually that comes in the form of fancy frosting, fondant flourishes, and crazy candles. But what if you got electronics involved? That’s the question Natasha Dzurny answered when she used an Arduino to bring a birthday cake to life with epic LED lighting.…
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Gender Balance in Computing — the big picture
Reading Time: 7 minutesImproving gender balance in computing is part of our work to ensure equitable learning opportunities for all young people. Our Gender Balance in Computing (GBIC) research programme has been the largest effort to date to explore ways to encourage more girls and young women to engage with Computing. Commissioned by the Department…
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reTerminal E10-1 industrial expansion board review
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe do mean beefy too – it’s larger than the original reTerminal, and attaching it does increase the footprint (and weight). However, for that sacrifice you do get a barrel DC jack, a battery compartment, PoE, improved wireless LAN, mobile network support, serial ports, microphones, and speakers for any machine learning application,…
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Mini Mars Rover
Reading Time: 3 minutesNikodem had to fit the building of his own remote-controlled Mini Mars Rover around his other university work, and there was plenty to do, including designing it from scratch in CAD and undertaking a lot of 3D printing and CNC machining. “All parts were designed in such a way that you can…
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This project facilitates augmented reality Minecraft gaming
Reading Time: 2 minutesAugmented reality (AR) is distinct from virtual reality (VR) in that it brings the real world into virtual gameplay. The most famous example of AR is Pokémon Go, which lets players find the pocket monsters throughout their own physical region. Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, but lacks any official AR gameplay.…
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Nifty cam-following plotter can draw many shapes
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore CNC (computer numerical control) came along, automated machines utilized mechanisms like cams and tapers to act as guides. Those are physical components with precise contours meant to guide the tool, like an artist tracing lines with a pantograph. Such mechanisms are uncommon today, as CNC is far more versatile and much…
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This train of trash bins moves to the curb with the press of a button
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce a week, millions of people set out their trash cans next to the curb for collection the following day, which many consider to be extremely annoying or laborious. So rather than manually dragging out the garbage and recycling bins, the YouTuber known as Max Maker decided to build a system that…
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Roving Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots make the perfect Secret Santa gift
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of what has become an annual holiday tradition, several YouTube makers coordinated their efforts this year for a Secret Santa exchange. Returning participant James Bruton drew Emily the Engineer and found inspiration for his gift from an automatic boxing glove that she built. Taking that idea and running with it,…
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This flip-dot display acts like an Etch A Sketch
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery year, several of the biggest names in the maker world on YouTube get together for an international Secret Santa exchange. Each participate gets to decide on a gift for the assigned recipient and the only rule is that they must make the gift themselves. Sam Battle, of the LOOK MUM NO…
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Meet Jeff Geerling: YouTuber, ex-engineer, maker
Reading Time: 3 minutes“And sometimes you accidentally short a computer’s power supply and end up with a burn on your finger and a dead computer!” When did you first learn about Raspberry Pi? I remember reading about the first board on Ars Technica in early 2012. I bought my first Raspberry Pi (a Model B)…
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This clever clock displays the time in magnetic fields
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve probably seen videos of people moving magnets near iron dust, which results in the dust aligning itself to the patterns created by the magnetic fields. Magnetic viewing film works the same way, but with the dust in an oil suspension sitting in the gap between two sheets of transparent plastic. By…
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A new way for families to make purchases on Google PlayA new way for families to make purchases on Google PlayProduct Manager
Reading Time: 2 minutesMany families come to Google Play to find apps and games for everyone in the household to enjoy. Now we’re adding a new easier way for families to safely purchase both paid apps and in-app purchases. On Google Play, you’re already able to set up a family payment method, which lets family…
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Announcement: Project Hub is evolving
Reading Time: 2 minutesEncouraging people to share projects and tutorials has always been central to Arduino’s mission of democratizing technology. Learning from the work of others is very important as we always felt that most makers like to start from an existing project and evolve from their own creation. If you’ve been following Arduino for…
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Raspberry Pi Pico Plant Waterer
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor Vanessa Bradley and Martin Spendiff, collectively known as VEEB, the scenario came up because their “lovely” neighbour sometimes watered their houseplants, but the plants didn’t always survive the experience. To save any more plants dying, they designed a carefully calibrated mechanism that would test whether the soil was dry enough for…
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The Infineon team’s XXL Chatbot offers you yuletide greetings
Reading Time: 2 minutesInfineon is one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers, but the company is made up of regular people like any other. Many of those people just happen to be engineers and they like to build gadgets and gizmos like the rest of us. Following a water cooler discussion about who had the…
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Combining research and practice to evaluate and improve computing education in non-formal settings
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the final seminar in our series on cross-disciplinary computing, Dr Tracy Gardner and Rebecca Franks, who work here at the Foundation, described the framework underpinning the Foundation’s non-formal learning pathways. They also shared insights from our recently published literature review about the impact that non-formal computing education has on learners. Dr…
