Schlagwort: raspberry pi 3
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Make your bike smart with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaker keanuDav was always forgetting to turn on his bike lights when riding out in the dark. He also never knew how fast he was going, or how long his rides were. So he created a shareable smart bike that automatically turns the lights on or off and keeps track of where…
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Raspberry Pi R2D2 console (plus tons of other Star Wars projects)
Reading Time: 3 minutesDiehard Nintendo and Star Wars fan electrouser301 is behind this customised R2D2 Raspberry Pi-powered console. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is its brain, and a Nintendo GameCube was customised with spray paint and hand-cut stencils. A match made in a galaxy far, far away Unleash your inner child Telling the story of…
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Make a Raspberry Pi-powered BMO Adventure Time console
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re a fan of the animated TV series Adventure Time, you’re already excited and scrolling to see how you can build your own Be MOre (BMO) console. And if you’re not: BMO is Adventure Time main characters Finn’s and Jake’s sentient video game system-cum-roomate. See, you recognise it now, don’t you?…
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Meet SeedGerm: a Raspberry Pi-based platform for automated seed imaging
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers at the John Innes Centre for plant and microbial science were looking for a cost‐effective phenotyping platform for automated seed imaging. They figured a machine learning-driven image analysis was the quickest way to deliver this essential, yet challenging, aspect of agricultural research. Sounds complicated, but they found that our tiny computers…
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Raspberry Pi LEGO sorter
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI–powered, automated sorting machine that is capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick. And its maker Daniel West believes it to be the first of its kind in the world! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JkdHEX3Yk?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Best ever This mega-machine was two years in the making and…
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Raspberry Pi ‘Swear Bear’ keeps your potty mouth in check
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy use a regular swear jar to retrain your potty-mouthed brain when you can build a Swear Bear to help you instead? Swear Bear listens to you. All the time. And Swear Bear can tell when a swear word is used. Swear Bear tells you off and saves all the swear words…
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Turn a watermelon into a RetroPie games console
Reading Time: 3 minutesOK Cedrick, we don’t need to know why, but we have to know how you turned a watermelon into a games console. This has got to be a world first. What started out as a regular RetroPie project has blown up reddit due to the unusual choice of casing for the games…
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Raspberry Pi retro player
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe found this project at TeCoEd and we loved the combination of an OLED display housed inside a retro Argus slide viewer. It uses a Raspberry Pi 3 with Python and OpenCV to pull out single frames from a video and write them to the display in real time. TeCoEd names this…
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Mini Raspberry Pi Boston Dynamics–inspired robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a ‘Spot Micro’ walking quadruped robot running on Raspberry Pi 3B. By building this project, redditor /thetrueonion (aka Mike) wanted to teach themself robotic software development in C++ and Python, get the robot walking, and master velocity and directional control. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-uzWG9Z-5E?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Mike was inspired by Spot, one of Boston…
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Raspberry Pi prayer reminder clock
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of our Approved Resellers in the Netherlands, Daniël from Raspberry Store, shared this Raspberry Pi–powered prayer reminder with us. It’s a useful application one of his customers made using a Raspberry Pi purchased from Daniël’s store. As a Raspberry Pi Official Reseller, I love to see how customers use Raspberry Pi…
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Who needs vinyl records when you’ve got Raspberry Pi and NFC?
Reading Time: 2 minutesRedditor Mark Hank missed the tactile experience of vinyl records so he removed the insides of an old Sonos Boost to turn it into a Raspberry Pi- and NFC-powered music player. Yes, this really works: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N02-eF822dY] The Sonos Boost was purchased for just £3 on eBay. Mark pulled all the original…
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(Raspberry) Pi Commander | The MagPi 95
Reading Time: 4 minutesAdrien Castel’s idea of converting an old electronic toy into a retro games machine was no flight of fancy, as David Crookes discovers The 1980s was a golden era for imaginative electronic toys. Children would pester their parents for a Tomytronic 3D or a Nintendo Game & Watch. And they would enviously…
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Retro Nixie tube lights get smart
Reading Time: 2 minutesNixie tubes: these electronic devices, which can display numerals or other information using glow discharge, made their first appearance in 1955, and they remain popular today because of their cool, vintage aesthetic. Though lots of companies manufactured these items back in the day, the name ‘Nixie’ is said to derive from a…
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How to set up OctoPrint on your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you own a 3D printer, you’ll likely have at least heard of OctoPrint from the ever benevolent 3D printing online community. It has the potential to transform your 3D printing workflow for the better, and it’s very easy to set up. This guide will take you through the setup process step…
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Raspberry Pi 3 baby monitor | Hackspace magazine #26
Reading Time: 7 minutesYou might have a baby/dog/hamster that you want to keep an eye on when you’re not there. We understand: they’re lovely, especially hamsters. Here’s how HackSpace magazine contributor Dr Andrew Lewis built a Raspberry Pi baby cam to watch over his small creatures… When a project is going to be used in…
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a synthesiser
Reading Time: 2 minutesSynthesiser? Synthesizer? Whichever it is*, check out this video of Floyd Steinberg showing how he set up his Raspberry Pi as one of them. How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer. Table of contents below! The Raspberry PI is a popular…
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a synthesiser
Reading Time: 2 minutesSynthesiser? Synthesizer? Whichever it is*, check out this video of Floyd Steinberg showing how he set up his Raspberry Pi as one of them. How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer. Table of contents below! The Raspberry PI is a popular…
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Raspberry Pi snail habitats for Mrs Nation’s class
Reading Time: 2 minutesThese Raspberry Pis take hourly photographs of snails in plastic container habitats, sharing them to the Snail Habitat website. Snails While some might find them kind of icky, I am in love with snails (less so with their homeless cousin, the slug), so this snail habitat project from Mrs Nation’s class is…
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The grilled cheese-making robot of your dreams
Reading Time: 3 minutesUmmm…YES PLEASE! Cheeseborg: The Grilled Cheese Robot! More cool stuff at http://www.tabb.me and http://www.evankhill.com Cheeseborg has one purpose: to create the best grilled cheese it possibly can! Cheeseborg is fully automated, voice activated, and easy to move. With Google Assistant SDK integration, Cheeseborg can even be used as a part of your…
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A low-cost, open-source, computer-assisted microscope
Reading Time: 2 minutesLow-cost open labware is a good thing in the world, and I was particularly pleased when micropalaeontologist Martin Tetard got in touch about the Raspberry Pi-based microscope he is developing. The project is called microscoPI (what else?), and it can capture, process, and store images and image analysis results. Martin is engaged…
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Using data to help a school garden
Reading Time: 7 minutesChris Aviles, aka the teacher we all wish we’d had when we were at school, discusses how his school is in New Jersey is directly linking data with life itself… Over to you, Chris. Every year, our students take federal or state-mandated testing, but what significant changes have we made to their…
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Raspberry Pi interactive wind chimes
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrab yourself a Raspberry Pi, a Makey Makey, and some copper pipes: it’s interactive wind chime time! Perpetual Chimes Perpetual Chimes is a set of augmented wind chimes that offer an escapist experience where your collaboration composes the soundscape. Since there is no wind indoors, the chimes require audience interaction to gently…
