Schlagwort: PC

Reading Time: 3 minutesBuild a Raspberry Pi 5 Media Player Free your films, videos, and music with our ultimate SSD-powered Raspberry Pi media player. You get complete control over your movies, the ability to stream from all the big players, and access obscure services like public domain films and homebrew games. It’s a complete winner…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 35% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. UK subscribers get three issues for just £10 and a FREE Raspberry Pi Pico W, then pay £30 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: 6 minutes01 Install the software On your PC, visit cdpstudio.com/getstarted and download the free non-commercial version for Windows or Linux. During installation, select the ‘ARMv8 64-bit (Debian 11)’ component under CDP Studio 4.12, along with the one already ticked for your host PC. You will then be able to deploy projects to the…

Reading Time: 6 minutesOfficial Raspberry Pi 5 Case Raspberry Pi £10 / $10 Coming in red/white or black, the official case comprises three plastic sections that snap-fit together, so assembly is a cinch. The middle section includes a clear insert with a fan that connects to Raspberry Pi 5’s Fan port. A small SoC heatsink…

Reading Time: 3 minutesSpeech Note transcription $ sudo apt install flatpak $ flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo Now reboot Raspberry Pi, then open a terminal and type: $ flatpak install speechnote Say “yes” to confirm that you wish to use the suggested ref, that you wish to install it, and that you wish to proceed…

Reading Time: 3 minutesAdafruit Braincraft HAT Built for Raspberry Pi 4, Adafruit’s Braincraft HAT is a pretty comprehensive kit for machine learning. It includes a 1.54-inch 240×240 TFT screen as a display, a joystick to navigate options you might wish to display on it, a cooling fan, three controllable LEDs, plus speaker, headphone and microphone…

Reading Time: < 1 minute“I’ve often had the occasional flight on my grandad’s copy of Flight Simulator X when I visit him, but I purchased X-Plane 12 after Christmas, so I’ve been using it regularly for about three months.” Leo tells us about what inspired him. “[The throttle is] reasonably rigid. There’s some flex in…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBurgerBot Inedible round robot This Pico-powered robot is small and compact, and a great base for expanding and building bigger and more complex robots magpi.cc/burgerbot PicoTico Tic-tac-toe-bot Would you like to play a game of tic-tac-toe? This robot will play with you, but unlike WOPR (from 1983’s WarGames) it’s a bit more…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis has caused me a little bit of a quandary though. My desk in the office is my home away from home and I want to make it feel comfy and welcoming when I visit. However, I’m not there that often, so I can’t bring in stuff I need at home, where…

Reading Time: 4 minutes“I was working at Heathrow Airport developing controls software for a baggage handling line in 1999 when we decided it would be useful to attach a dot matrix printer to keep track of errors and how the code was treating each piece of luggage passing through the system,” he explains. “The choices…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe service we now know as rpilocator started off as cm4locator, with André coding it during a couple of days off. Initially it was private, and within a couple of days it had helped him locate – and buy – a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Surprised at how easy it was,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSetting up the device is very simple, although depends slightly on the version you get. The kit that comes with a Compute Module 4 already installed is basically ready to go, just requiring you to get it set up for your network and IoT add-ons. If you’re adding the Compute Module, you…

Reading Time: 4 minutesMainframes were actually quite boring machines to work with. You created punch-cards, fed them in, waited, then a response was printed out. DEC’s PDP-10 was the first to be truly interactive. It was DEC’s decision in 1968 to provide a unit to MIT that really sealed its place in history. For the…