Schlagwort: minipc

Reading Time: 3 minutesPenk was looking to build upon his work with mechanical keyboards. “I’d learned not only how to build them from scratch, or mould and cast my own key caps, but also how to use a laser engraver to melt pigment onto key caps to print my own legends,” he says. “I recall…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis makes sense. Raspberry Pi is ideal for rediscovering retro classics; its modern processor is capable of faithfully emulating just about every beloved computer of our generation. And like many computer geeks of our generation, we loved many different 8- and 16-bit computers. My beloved computer of this month is the ZX…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe device comes fully assembled, so all you need to do is turn it on and load up the latest version of the software from Pimoroni’s GitHub page. Installation is a case of holding down the BOOT button to mount RP2040 onto the destkop, and copying the UF2 file to the mounted…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“It felt a shame to go to so much effort in restoring and repairing these classic machines only to hide them away in a cupboard,” he says. “A pipe dream began to form that I might one day be able to open an exhibition space for retro fans to come and enjoy…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I am addicted to making stuff,” Mike tells us. “Now retired, but I was a university lecturer for 21 years and an electronic engineer in a mass-production consumer electronics company for the rest of my career.” What is your history with electronics and programming? My first electronic kit was called Trans Tronic.…

Reading Time: 3 minutesStuart’s first computer, a ZX Spectrum, has a special place in his heart, so a Raspberry Pi project based around one seemed ideal. “They’re still great machines!” he says of the beloved computer which celebrates its 40th birthday this April.  Stuart loves repairing and running real hardware as well as emulations and…

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Reading Time: 2 minutesXOGO successfully launched its first bespoke media hardware – the XOGO Mini – in 2019. For its follow-up, XOGO founder and CMO Justin Miller knew price would be critical, especially as the company was aiming for growth along with the thriving digital signage market. He says that the choice of Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe EON is a full network-attached storage (NAS) enclosure for your Raspberry Pi 4. Whereas previous NAS projects often involve a USB hub and cables to external drives, the EON fits up to four drives in an enclosure with a single power source. This allows you to build your own multi-drive storage…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe EON is a full network-attached storage (NAS) enclosure for your Raspberry Pi 4. Whereas previous NAS projects often involve a USB hub and cables to external drives, the EON fits up to four drives in an enclosure with a single power source. This allows you to build your own multi-drive storage…

Reading Time: 3 minutesKevin’s idea was to transcribe everything he said in real-time and display it on a screen that could be worn as a badge. Since he works at Deepgram – which offers a deep learning speech recognition system – he already knew what software he was going to use. One of Kevin’s friends,…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis effort used two motors, a DRV8833 motor driver, and a 70 mAh lithium-polymer battery. It moved along on three 8 mm wooden beads acting as wheels. To make it as small as possible, Kaisar decided to saw away Raspberry Pi Pico’s lower section. “I had a number of these boards, so I took…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe standard Base Kit includes everything you need, apart from a Raspberry Pi 4, microSD card, USB-C power bank, and optional Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2. Note, however, that you could use any full-size Raspberry Pi model and/or power bank by substituting the supplied USB-C cable with one for the connections you…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWolfgang had made a hardware-based arbitrary waveform generator before, but having researched the capabilities of the RP2040 microcontroller and its support for DMA and PIO, he realised Raspberry Pi Pico would be ideal for amplifying waveform signals. MicroPython, which Pico natively supports, also happens to be Wolfgang’s preferred programming language. He decided…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Shonee documented their work on Instagram, people began to take notice. Their bespoke gaming arcade business, Fancy Octopus Arcades, “just sort of took off from there.” Bijou is beautiful Brooklyn resident Shonee started following a few Reddit and Facebook pages where he “saw folks making huge gaming rooms, loading them up…

Reading Time: 3 minutesReminiscent of a PlayStation DualShock, the Pro 2 controller has two analogue sticks, a D-pad, four buttons, four triggers, two Pro-level back buttons, Select, Start, Star, Heart, and Profile button. It’s certainly not short of a button or two. If all that wasn’t enough, there is an ‘SADX’ Mode switch underneath that swaps…

Reading Time: 3 minutesReminiscent of a PlayStation DualShock, the Pro 2 controller has two analogue sticks, a D-pad, four buttons, four triggers, two Pro-level back buttons, Select, Start, Star, Heart, and Profile button. It’s certainly not short of a button or two. If all that wasn’t enough, there is an ‘SADX’ Mode switch underneath that swaps…

Reading Time: 3 minutesOne maker, Matt Desmaris, recently revisited the idea. “I made PiGlass V1 in 2018,” he explains. “I wanted to try to make a heads-up display wearable and see how far I could take it. I kept running into performance issues with Raspberry Pi Zero when I was trying to add more features,…

Reading Time: 3 minutesA monumental make “I have always loved working with microcontrollers and single-board computers,” Zach tells us. “At the end of 2020 I built a large-scale Arduino board and posted a video about it on my YouTube channel. I had lots of suggestions and requests that I build large-scale versions of other DIY…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we say small, we mean small – it’s 140 mm wide and 95 mm high, putting it in the lower end of the size range for a Raspberry Pi attached to a touchscreen. It’s a little bit thick though at 21 mm. However, this is not all because of the internal components – it’s…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMichael’s home is full of Raspberry Pi computers performing tasks from NAS to OctoPrint server and RetroPie games arcade, so it seemed obvious to use our favourite single board computer for his Sol-20 project. He chose a Raspberry Pi 4 because he needed “the horsepower it provides to run the emulator at…