Schlagwort: HackSpace
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Archimedes the AI robot | HackSpace #45
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we saw Alex Glow’s name in the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, we just had to share their project. HackSpace #45 celebrates the best Raspberry Pi builds of all time, and we remembered spotting Alex’s wearable robotic owl familiar back in the day. For those of you yet to have had…
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Pico Pico Synth | HackSpace #44
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Ben Everard shows us how to create a framework for building audio devices using Raspberry Pi Pico, called PicoPicoSynth. Raspberry Pi Pico combines processing power with the ability to shuffle data in and out quickly. This makes it a good fit for a lot of…
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Debugging embedded software with Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this article from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Rob Miles takes a look at debugging. You’ll find what a debugger does and discover how to add hardware that can be used to tell us what our devices are really thinking. Figure 1: An ESP32-PROG (on the right) connected to a…
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Make a Raspberry Pi Pico-based Midi Fighter | HackSpace 43
Reading Time: 4 minutesMIDI Fighter-style controllers (MIDI controllers with grids of arcade buttons) have been a staple of the DIY MIDI controller community for years. This project, featured in the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, continues that tradition with the Raspberry Pi Pico. A grid of 16 arcade buttons lets you play MIDI notes faster…
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Meet Estefannie Explains it All
Reading Time: 14 minutesRecently listed as one of Instagram’s Top 7 Women in STEM, software engineer and content creator Estefannie talks to Alex Bate about electronics, her online community, and why she can’t stop giving away free tech in her Instagram Live streams. Coming from a software background, Estefannie had to learn electronics Based in…
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Custom USB games controllers with Raspberry Pi Pico | HackSpace 42
Reading Time: 9 minutesGames controllers – like keyboards – are very personal things. What works for one person may not work for another. Why, then, should we all use almost identical off-the-shelf controllers? In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, we take a look at how to use Raspberry Pi Pico to create a controller…
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Graphic routines for Raspberry Pi Pico screens
Reading Time: 7 minutesPimoroni has brought out two add‑ons with screens: Pico Display and Pico Explorer. A very basic set of methods is provided in the Pimoroni UF2 file. In this article, we aim to explain how the screens are controlled with these low-level instructions, and provide a library of extra routines and example code to help…
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Supercomputing with Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 41
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough it’s a very flexible term, supercomputing generally refers to the idea of running multiple computers as one, dividing up the work between them so that they process in parallel. In theory, every time you double the amount of processing power available, you half the time needed to complete your task. This…
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Make an animated sign with Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 4 minutesLight up your living room like Piccadilly Circus with this Raspberry Pi Pico project from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine. Don’t forget, it’s not too late to get your hands on our new microcontroller for FREE if you subscribe to HackSpace magazine. HUB75 LED panels provide an affordable way to add…
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NeoPixel dithering with Pico
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn the extra special Raspberry Pi Pico launch issue of HackSpace magazine, editor Ben Everard shows you how to get extra levels of brightness out of your LEDs with our new board. WS2812B LEDs, commonly known as NeoPixels, are cheap and widely available LEDs. They have red, green, and blue LEDs in…
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Add face recognition with Raspberry Pi | Hackspace 38
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s hard to comprehend how far machine learning has come in the past few years. You can now use a sub-£50 computer to reliably recognise someone’s face with surprising accuracy. Although this kind of computing power is normally out of reach of microcontrollers, adding a Raspberry Pi computer to your project with…
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Read RFID and NFC tokens with Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 37
Reading Time: 4 minutesAdd a bit of security to your project or make things selectableby using different cards. In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, PJ Evans goes contactless. The HAT is not hard on resources, so you can use many variants of Raspberry Pi NFC (near-field communication) is based on the RFID (radio-frequency identification)…
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Talk to your Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 36
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the latest issue of HackSpace Magazine, out now, @MrPJEvans shows you how to add voice commands to your projects with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a microphone. You’ll need: It’s amazing how we’ve come from everything being keyboard-based to so much voice control in our lives. Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are…
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Build an arcade cabinet | Hackspace 35
Reading Time: 5 minutesGames consoles might be fast and have great graphics, but they’re no match for the entertainment value of a proper arcade machine. In this month’s issue of Hackspace magazine, you’re invited to relive your misspent youth with this huge build project. There’s something special about the comforting solidity of a coin-eating video…
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Rotary encoders: Raise a Glitch Storm | Hackspace 34
Reading Time: 7 minutesA Glitch Storm is an explosive torrent of musical rhythms and sound, all generated from a single line of code. In theory, you can’t do this with a Raspberry Pi running Python – in this month’s new issue, out now, the HackSpace magazine team lovingly acquired a tutorial from The Mag Pi…
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OctoPrint: a baby monitor for your 3D printer
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn issue 32 of HackSpace magazine, out now, we talk to Gina Häußge, creator of OctoPrint – it sits on a Raspberry pi and monitors your 3D printer. Gina Häußge, creator and maintainer of OctoPrint There’s something enchanting about watching a 3D printer lay down hot plastic. Seeing an object take shape…
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The Raspberry Pi Press store is looking mighty fine
Reading Time: 3 minutesEagle-eyed Raspberry Pi Press fans might have noticed some changes over the past few months to the look and feel of our website. Today we’re pleased to unveil a new look for the Raspberry Pi Press website and its online store. Did you know? Raspberry Pi Press is the publishing imprint of…
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Design your own Internet of Things with HackSpace magazine
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn issue 31 of HackSpace magazine, out today, PJ Evans looks at DIY smart homes and homemade Internet of Things devices. In the last decade, various companies have come up with ‘smart’ versions of almost everything. Microcontrollers have been unceremoniously crowbarred into devices that had absolutely no need for microcontrollers, and often…
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Build low-power, clock-controlled devices
Reading Time: 7 minutesDo you want to make a sensor with a battery life you can measure in days rather than hours? Even if it contains a (relatively!) power-hungry device like a Raspberry Pi? By cunning use of a real-time clock module, you can make something that wakes up, does its thing, and then goes…
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Special offer for magazine readers
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou don’t need me to tell you about the unprecedented situation that the world is facing at the moment. We’re all in the same boat, so I won’t say anything about it other than I hope you stay safe and take care of yourself and your loved ones. The other thing I…
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Build a physical game controller for Infinite Bunner
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn HackSpace magazine issue 28 we had a look at how to create an ultrasonic controller for a version of Pong called Boing!. This month, we’re going to take a step further forward through video game history and look at the game Frogger. In this classic game, you control a frog as…
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Play Pong with ultrasonic sensors and a Raspberry Pi | HackSpace magazine
Reading Time: 4 minutesDay three of our Pong celebration leads us here, to HackSpace magazine’s ultrasonic hack of Eben’s Code the Classics Pong tribute, Boing! If you haven’t yet bought your copy of Code the Classics, you have until 11:59pm GMT tonight to get £1 off using the discount code PONG. Click here to visit…
