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5 new Android features to help you explore, search for music and more5 new Android features to help you explore, search for music and moreDirector, Product Management
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew Android features help you explore with confidence — from using offline maps from your wrist to getting earthquake alerts in more locations.New Android features help you explore with confidence — from using offline maps from your wrist to getting earthquake alerts in more locations.Website: LINK
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Android Earthquake Alerts now available across the U.S.Android Earthquake Alerts now available across the U.S.Group Product Manager
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAndroid Earthquake Alerts is expanding to all 50 U.S. states, using phones to detect earthquakes and send early warnings to users.Android Earthquake Alerts is expanding to all 50 U.S. states, using phones to detect earthquakes and send early warnings to users.Website: LINK
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Join the UK Bebras Challenge 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UK Bebras Challenge, the nation’s largest computing competition, is back and open for entries from schools. This year’s challenge will be open for entries from 4–15 November. Last year, over 400,000 students from across the UK took part. Read on to learn how your school can get involved. What is UK…
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Welcoming HackSpace
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom our perspective, this gives us a bigger and better magazine. It also opens up a new aspect of making that we haven’t traditionally given as much thought to as HackSpace. While The MagPi magazine tends to focus heavily on Raspberry Pi products – it is “the Official Raspberry Pi magazine” after…
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on
Reading Time: 2 minutesMotion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical activity in, Iacopo Guarneri has developed a motion-capturing…
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This miniature monorail stays upright with the help of gyro stabilization
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost monorail systems, like the kind at Disney and in Las Vegas, stay upright because the “rail” is actually a very wide beam. The car’s load tires (often literal truck or trailer tires) roll on top of that beam and guide tires clamp the sides of the beam, preventing the car from…
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Pico 2 and RP2350 in The MagPi magazine #145
Reading Time: 3 minutesPico 2 & RP2350 It has faster processors, more memory, greater power efficiency, and industry-leading security features and you can choose between Arm and RISC-V cores. The new Pico 2 is an incredible microcontroller board and we’ve secured interviews with the Raspberry Pi engineering team. RP2350 Products out now Plenty of companies…
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Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful addition to your Arduino Cloud toolkit. …
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Bridging the gap from Scratch to Python: Introducing ‘Paint with Python’
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have developed an innovative activity to support young people as they transition from visual programming languages like Scratch to text-based programming languages like Python. This activity introduces a unique interface that empowers learners to easily interact with Python while they create a customised painting app. “The kids liked the self-paced learning,…
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Win! One of 20 Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 35% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. UK subscribers get three issues for just £10 and a FREE Raspberry Pi Pico W, then pay £30 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other Raspberry Pi…
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7 ways to keep up with the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 on Google and YouTube7 ways to keep up with the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 on Google and YouTube
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome of the world’s greatest athletes are headed to Paris for the Paralympic Games. And with features across Search, Maps, YouTube and more, you can experience the action wherever you are. 1. Stay up-to-date on what’s happening with Search Celebrate the Paralympic Games through daily Paralympic Doodles and features which help…
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Storing ephemeral micropoetry on RFID cards for bite-sized readings
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of poetry from cover-to-cover over the course of a few sessions, the majority of people seem to prefer enjoying poetry in occasional little chunks. And unlike the epic poems of Greek antiquity, those tend…
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Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect
Reading Time: 2 minutesRobotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior embedded software engineer Dmitry Maslov shows how he was able to take this…
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Find the best Google services with Google Essentials on Windows PCsFind the best Google services with Google Essentials on Windows PCsDirector of Strategic Partnerships
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the last two years, we’ve been working to bring Google Play Games to more Windows PC gamers around the world. Today, we’re introducing Google Essentials, a new app that makes it easier for you to discover and install many of our best Google services — including Google Play Games — when…
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More than a store: How we’re evolving Google PlayMore than a store: How we’re evolving Google PlayVice President and General Manager
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore rewards With over 220 million members, Google Play Points is already one of the world’s largest rewards programs. We recently leveled up our offering with new perks and early access to top titles. Now, we’re doing even more to celebrate our members with new rewards and exclusive experiences. This week,…
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Amassing a mobile Minion militia
Reading Time: 2 minutesChanneling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the public in local shopping malls. Building one minion robot is, in theory, pretty straightforward. That is especially true when, like these, that robot isn’t actually bipedal and instead rolls around on little wheels attached to the…
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This beautiful table creates art in the sand
Reading Time: 2 minutesKinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes a different approach inspired by spirograph…
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10 amazing big builds
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaftberry Floating dock It can be nice to pootle around a lake, especially with some delicious food and company. This Raspberry Pi-powered raft uses arcade controls to move around on the water. Teslonda Custom electric car Taking a 1981 Honda Accord and souping it up is one thing, then there’s making it…
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Get ready for Moonhack 2024: Projects on climate change
Reading Time: 3 minutesMoonhack is a free, international coding challenge for young people run online every year by Code Club Australia, powered by our partner the Telstra Foundation. The yearly challenge is open to young people worldwide, and in 2023, over 44,500 young people registered to take part. Moonhack 2024 runs from 14 to 31…
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An Arduino-powered robotic ukulele that plays itself
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any other and that means it takes a lot of practice to play competently. Zeroshot is too busy building cool stuff to bother with all of that, so he put his skills to use…
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Celebrating the community: Isabel
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of our favourite things is sharing the stories of amazing young people, volunteers, and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with Isabel, a computer science teacher at Barton Peveril Sixth Form College in…
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LR1302 LoRaWAN HAT + Gateway Module review
Reading Time: 2 minutesConstruction is simple – simply slot the Gateway Module into the HAT’s mini PCIe connector, and slot the HAT on top of your Raspberry Pi. There are external antennas to add as well, including a fancy GPS module in case you need to know its location. From source The software is a…
