Schlagwort: makers

Reading Time: 2 minutesEven on paper it has some interesting features – sure, it has a ton of buttons and a battery etc., but it also has an active cooling fan, an analogue joystick, and even a brightness control wheel for the screen – something very reminiscent of the contrast control on the original Game…

Reading Time: 6 minutesTim Richardson has been involved with the Raspberry Pi community from almost the start. He is part of the Pi Wars organising team and a course designer/builder, as well as writing the CamJam EduKit worksheets, CamJam organiser, and now a PCB designer. After seeing his first 3D printer at a Raspberry Jam back…

Reading Time: 2 minutesHaunted House Hacks It’s the most wonderful time of the year. (Or the second most wonderful, depending on which The MagPi team member you talk to.) Get ready for Halloween and bonfire night with Rob’s collection of terror-ific projects. Haunt your house and make it a Halloween to remember. Play classic games…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSponsored! Add AI to your project & pi3g will supply the kit about 22 hours ago. Sponsored! Tell us what you’d like to make! Then pi3g will send five makers an AIY Voice Kit v2, AIY Vision Kit, or Coral USB Accelerator. Plus! Your project can appear in The MagPi

Reading Time: 3 minutes“It’s a globe which you spin to search web radio stations,” creator Jude Pullen summarises. “It’s really simple to use (even my four-year-old son gets it!), but the tech inside is pretty clever to make it work. It has a very special component called a rotary encoder, which has the ability to…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I wanted to make a physical arcade machine with an Adafruit Metro M4,” he recalls. “However, [Microsoft MakeCode] does not have a firmware for this exact board… I didn’t know how to do soldering back then, so I didn’t pick ItsyBitsy or Feather M4.” Adafruit projects are almost unheard of in Taiwan,…

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, pixel art invokes pangs of nostalgia and it has evolved into a much-loved digital aesthetic in its own right. Ashley Green is certainly a huge fan, which is why he sought a quirky way of displaying his favourite pixel art, hitting on an idea that also paid homage to the past.…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMaker Ryan Cochran’s project evokes such memories of the past. “I have a passion for vintage modern design and early NASA aesthetics and I wanted to make something which would merge the two into an art piece that could fit on my shelf,” he recalls. “The first thing I could think of…

Reading Time: 3 minutesHistorical significance Kareem explains: “The idea was to display a juxtaposition of peaceful protestors with violent, oppressive police and elevating the names of Black people who have been killed by police in America.” Having had the germ of an idea for such a project, New York-based Kareem tweeted asking for someone to…

Reading Time: 6 minutesExpand your local library collection Let’s start by looking again at our local collection. Storing music locally allows you reliable playback and complete control over how your music is organised. The downside is storage costs, so before embarking on ripping all your CDs, have a think about how you want to store…

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Richard Bowman is spearheading the creation of an open-source, 3D-printed microscope that’s able to be adapted for use in labs, schools, and the home. He was inspired by his time as a Research Fellow in the NanoPhotonics Centre at the University of Cambridge, where an early attempt at such a project…

Reading Time: 3 minutesIs there a particular flavour to activities at a Preston Jam? The activities include workshops, hands-on sessions, support, talks, project demonstrations, discussions about new hardware and software, and something that one of our regulars Simon calls a ‘gather round’ where people gather round a table to learn more about something. In the…

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou’ll need Build innoextract We’re going to build innoextract from source as, at time of writing, the main Raspberry OS repo has an older version. sudo apt install build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev liblzma-dev wget https://constexpr.org/innoextract/files/innoextract-1.8.tar.gz tar xzf innoextract-1.8.tar.gz cd innoextract-1.8 mkdir -p build && cd build cmake .. make sudo make install Version…

Reading Time: 2 minutesMike explains that rather than risk having to cancel an in-person version of Pi Wars 2021, they decided to turn a negative into a positive and hold two online events. The Virtual Pi Wars Conference will be on Saturday 23 January and will be a live-streamed event hosted by CamJam’s Rob Bricheno.…

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor his very first Raspberry Pi project, Mark Hankinson has created a solution. “I listen to a lot of music through streaming services,” he tells us, “but I never really felt like I had a ‘collection’ – it was a stream of tracks chosen for me by an algorithm, rather than me…

Reading Time: 3 minutesStart building Packed in a cardboard box, the kit features a large array of components, including six motors, five servos, and no fewer than 30 PCB shapes to create the structure. In large kits like these, finding the right components and tiny screws can be a pain, so it’s a great help…

Reading Time: 5 minutesClean install of Raspberry Pi OS We start with a fresh installation of Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) flashed to a microSD card using Raspberry Pi Imager. Set up Raspberry Pi with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse (we won’t need these by the end of the tutorial). Power up and go through the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesHear world music with RadioGlobe We love this project by Jude Pullen. Raspberry Pi is added to a toy globe and tuned into internet radio stations. Spin the globe and find a radio station playing anywhere in the world. It uses rotary encoders to know exactly where the globe is positioned at…

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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’s forecast “Raspberry Pi is the perfect device to both call a public API for weather forecast and drive via GPIO the 32 metres of LED strips,” Diego explains. “I can access my Raspberry Pi via SSH and control the logging of the workflow that I implemented using Node-RED and Docker, in…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe think Ren’py might be a good answer. Not because it’s mainly used for creating visual novels (VN) – while easy to deride, they’re a legitimate genre and difficult to make in their own way – but because it’s designed to make it easier to develop. Not only does it have great…

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat you’ll need to build this home music system Hardware assembly
 The JustBoom DAC (digital-to-analogue converter) HAT provides high-quality audio output for our project. It also blocks the GPIO header, which we need to power the touchscreen. Luckily, the HAT has a GPIO breakout, so we soldered a two-pin header to the…