Schlagwort: makers

Reading Time: 3 minutesJoseph Uding’s robot-building education started with Stan Winston’s Hollywood animatronics and MIT’s robotics online courses. He’s now a project officer at Hive Colab’s department of Robotics and AI. The single-board computer features prominently in Joseph’s Project Zed robot, created as a means of encouraging citizens to take sensible health precautions. “A friend…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSince then he’s made several Raspberry Pi projects, including Spider-Man specs – hence his profile pic. His Mind Patterning headset is intended “to kick off a much larger project using mind-reading capabilities.” The project reads brainwave data with a MUSE headband and uses TensorFlow machine learning to train a model on the…

Reading Time: 2 minutespi3g plans to celebrate AIY Projects and Coral by giving away five AIY Voice Lot v2, AIY Vision, or Coral USB Accelerator units to The MagPi readers. And we will make sure the world gets to see your creation! All you have to do is tell us what you plan to make…

Reading Time: 7 minutesCopyright alert! DOSBox is an emulator and we use it with open-source FreeDOS code. Be mindful of copyright when downloading image files, and only use proprietary software that you own and in accordance with the licence terms. To run Windows 98 software on Raspberry Pi you’ll need : Find a copy of…

Reading Time: 6 minutesCrowPi2 is is a huge step up in ambition. The touchscreen is replaced with a full IPS display, keyboard, and a trackpad with mouse combo, turning the CrowPi learning environment into a laptop. At the time of writing, CrowPi2 is in the last days of a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign, and the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt comes with an IP40 rating: “Protected from tools and small wires greater than 1 millimetre. Not protected from liquids.” The modular cases come with either a solid lid or a side panel for an embedded display. We got three sizes to experiment with: 125×87 mm, 145×125 mm, and 237×195 mm Made to measure Matching…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is your background in making and programming? I graduated from a Japanese technical high school with a major in electric engineering. I have learned not only soldering to make electronic DIY, but also welding and programming with Apple IIe and punch cards. I also came across the Sharp pocket computer PC-1416G…

Reading Time: 2 minutesDirk aimed to keep the build costs to around €300 – nearly two years later he estimates the project has cost him nearer €1500, though this includes the cost of two 3D printers and two previous prototypes. Now it’s built, there are no significant running costs. “Solar power is free and the…

Reading Time: 5 minutesSome people take things further and use a third-party service to help protect their Raspberry Pi. In this tutorial, we’re taking a look at remote.it to set up a work network using Raspberry Pi as a remote access gateway. With remote.it, you can access a Raspberry Pi remotely without port forwarding. You…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMany robots use the two wheels of a DC motor to provide tank-like steering. PiCar-V 2.0 takes things up a gear with an additional servo motor to steer the front wheels via a rack mechanism (called the Servo Linkage Plate). A further two servos provide a pan-and-tilt mechanism for the included USB…

Reading Time: 2 minutesRaspberry Pi 4 web hosting with Mythic Beasts Hire a Raspberry Pi in the cloud and run web services at twice the speed and half the cost! Mythic Beast’s new Raspberry Pi 4 web hosting service is now live.   Run Windows 9x software Boot a Raspberry Pi into Windows 98 and run…

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Girls Into Coding (GIC) events were incredibly successful, so Helene has decided to commit fully to the organisation: “Earlier this year, we set higher ambitions and established GIC as a Community Interest Company aiming to offer more girls more opportunities to develop.” When did you first learn about Raspberry Pi and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Anyone can come by and see the stills run and learn about them in more detail,” says son Jim, cheerfully. Given its location on a rather pretty island just north of Seattle, Washington, and the quality of the liqueurs and whiskeys produced there, it’s little wonder the Heisings have plenty of visitors.…

Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently, VueScan released a version of its software that works on Raspberry Pi, so we decided to check it out on Raspberry Pi OS. Problem solver Getting VueScan is pretty easy – head to hamrick.com and it will recommend you a version to download for the OS you’re using. There are instructions…

Reading Time: 6 minutesForked from the original DOSBox emulator, DOSBox-X has more precise hardware emulation, supports a wider range of software, and can effectively run more DOS-related operating systems (up to Windows ME). It also has a sophisticated graphical interface to help you manage tasks such as configuration and virtual disk-swapping. DOS emulation: you’ll need…

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt took him around four months, on and off, to develop his Piano-Playing Robot. As shown in his YouTube project video (), it features 15 solenoids mounted on a wooden frame placed on top of an electric piano keyboard. “Basically, the system is quite simple,” reveals Étienne. “Each solenoid pushes on a…

Reading Time: 5 minutesAttach Inky wHAT to Raspberry Pi Carefully line up your Inky wHAT over the GPIO header pins on Raspberry Pi (use the header booster that sits between the wHAT and the board if yours is a full-sized Raspberry Pi model) and press it into place. Connect Raspberry Pi’s mouse, keyboard, screen, and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“This March, two friends of mine organised a Raspberry Jam in my hometown, Amsterdam.” Jolien explains. “There I saw some really cool projects. Living in Amsterdam, more living space in my apartment is always very welcome and I’ve wanted a loft bed for some time.” Instead of simply modifying an existing bed,…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“BB is a small, wall-powered robot designed to test out offline computer vision, detecting people and faces,” says Sean. “It searches a room for people, then tries to recognise any faces if it detects a person. If it comes across a person in its memory, it will respond appropriately, e.g. ‘Hello Sean’,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou gotta roll with it The system is built around a Raspberry Pi, a HiFiBerry AMP to output high-quality sound to a hidden speaker, and an Arduino Mega to take readings from eight Hall effect sensors. In each toilet roll holder, a 3D-printed part contains a circular four-pole magnet that triggers the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSupplied fully assembled, it’ll work with any 40‑pin Raspberry Pi model. Pimoroni has thoughtfully included six metal PCB standoffs (with screws) for spacing and securing it, and/or the attached mini or full-size HATs, via pairs of the eight mounting holes provided. Pin checking No extra software is required. So, in theory, you…