Schlagwort: minipc

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I’ve always been into making things as far back as I remember,” Kevin tells us. “From making things with cereal boxes (the best source of robust and available cardboard) to creating robots and futuristic worlds in Lego, at age eight! There was probably a gap of about 30 years before I got…

Reading Time: 3 minutesHillary explains that emergence can mean many things: “capturing the creation of galaxies, intelligent behaviour in ant colonies, economics, ecosystems, and conscious brains.” The use of it in this context is brand new. Idea emerging How does one go about creating such a system? “Functionally, the system needed to extract position and…

Reading Time: 2 minutesHe has a stone dragon gargoyle on his roof and a train layout, for which he built several landmark buildings from scratch. In his younger days, he inspected and reported on nuclear power stations and MOD nuclear installations, a very important job that required extreme focus to keep his nation safe. These power…

Reading Time: 3 minutesDmytro is a Ukrainian from Kyiv, and he and his family are among millions of people displaced and suffering since Russia invaded their country. “I was in Kyiv when the first wave of explosions surged across Ukraine and we left the city with nothing but our backpacks,” he says. Yet among the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I was inspired by the desire to reproduce a capability that a few years ago would have occupied half a room and cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, and replace it with something cheap and portable that could be used by myself and my fellow amateur TV enthusiasts,’’ Dave tells us. Fellow…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi Photography The Raspberry Pi Camera Module offers up a world of creative possibilities. Discover how to add image recognition to your projects by connecting and coding with the camera. Learn how the ‚raspistill‘ and ‚libcamera‘ libraries are used to control your projects, and get inspiration from other makers. Craft Wearables…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith a name like Pirate Audio (£20), it can only be our friends from Sheffield-on-Sea, Pimoroni. Its Pirate Audio range is similar to the HiFiBerry DAC but with more features. We’ve chosen the headphone version here, but line-out, 3W amp and even built-in speaker versions are available. All four Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is your history with making things? When I was eight years old my dog Korsan passed away. I was really upset and wanted to bring him back to life. I had to do a math project for school, and I had to interview a technical professional, so I asked my dad’s…

Reading Time: 3 minutesInspired by this, maker Jeff Stockman looked to automate the process as part of his Internet of Things course at the University of Washington Tacoma. “I’d made a bird feeder a few years ago and used a first-generation Raspberry Pi computer and a basic webcam connected to my local network,” he says.…

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr George Papalambrou and his colleagues Vasilis Mentogiannis and Kostas Katsioulis, from the NTAU’s School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, knew plenty about Raspberry Pi before selecting it for their underwater archaeology surveillance project. “It was our first choice from day one,” George says. For a start, he had used Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMinimalist This case is minimalism taken to a new level. Looking at the rear, we see the ports from a Raspberry Pi 3B, and not only the usual phono (RCA) sockets but XLR sockets too. This unassuming box is aimed right at the professional market as well as the audiophile. Driving…

Reading Time: 3 minutesSounds simple, right? Wayne had found himself forgetting to send the necessary emails, and thought the process was a bit tedious when he did remember, which became the impetus for the project. There’s a little bit more to it than just being a button that makes it pretty cool though. “I used…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile one of its headline features is that it’s very thin (14mm thin to be exact, thinner than a Raspberry Pi 4), it doesn’t skimp on screen size with an 8-inch IPS LCD touchscreen running at 1280×800. It’s bright and very responsive, the latter thanks to a Compute Module 4 being built…

Reading Time: 2 minutesPrint magazines are important for legacy preservation, as well as being a great monthly joy to read. Every copy of The MagPi magazine is filed with the British Library. The legal requirement for publishers to file copies of publications has existed in English law since 1662. In 60 years’ time, when people…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPrecise planting Guy Coleman has extensive experience as an agricultural scientist, and began using Raspberry Pi five years ago as a means of exploring how computer vision might be used in such settings. Weed recognition and precision control using deep learning is the focus of his PhD at the University of Sydney.…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi Smart Garden Spring has well and truly sprung, so it’s time to head outside and make the most of the sunshine. That doesn’t mean we have to leave our electronic toys behind though. We’re going to automate our garden, with low-cost watering systems and robot mowers. Power up your patio…

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Reading Time: 3 minutes“I had thought a little music box which played content from the 1930s and 1940s would be an excellent addition to the car when it’s on display,” explains George. “After putting some thought into making one myself, the idea of having content from each decade in the 20th century somehow seemed more…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe team, the NanoBioPhotonics group at the University of Strathclyde, have been using their imaging expertise to “investigate the mechanisms that macrophages (a type of immune cell in the body) employ to remove respiratory pathogens”, pathogens that, among other things, can lead to pneumonia or meningitis. “From my experience using research microscope…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPortable power One of the easiest ways to take Raspberry Pi portable is to use a mobile phone charging bank. These sticks typically use a USB connection to hold power, and you can plug them into Raspberry Pi just like your phone charger. It’s a hack though – if you want a…

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou can flash it with the Pico firmware and program it with MicroPython, C/C++, or CircuitPython. So it’s very versatile and easy to get started with. To achieve a smaller footprint, a few compromises have been made. Most notably, the Tiny 2040 only has a total of 16 pins versus Pico’s 40,…