Schlagwort: Raspberry Pi 3B+
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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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RetroPie booze barrel
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat do we want? Retro gaming, adult beverages, and our favourite Spotify playlist. When do we want them? All at the same time. Luckily, u/breadtangle took to reddit to answer our rum-soaked prayers with this beautifully crafted beer barrel-cum-arcade machine-cum-drinks cabinet. We approve of this drink selection The addition of a sneaky…
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Global sunrise/sunset Raspberry Pi art installation
Reading Time: 3 minutes24h Sunrise/Sunset is a digital art installation that displays a live sunset and sunrise happening somewhere in the world with the use of CCTV. Artist Dries Depoorter wanted to prove that “CCTV cameras can show something beautiful”, and turned to Raspberry Pi to power this global project. Harnessing CCTV The arresting visuals…
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Give your voice assistant a retro Raspberry Pi makeover
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo you feel weird asking the weather or seeking advice from a faceless device? Would you feel better about talking to a classic 1978 2-XL educational robot from Mego Corporation? Matt over at element14 Community, where tons of interesting stuff happens, has got your back. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01OHLAjIXJE?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Watch Matt explain how the…
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Self-driving trash can controlled by Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesYouTuber extraordinaire Ahad Cove HATES taking out the rubbish, so he decided to hack a rubbish bin/trash can – let’s go with trash can from now on – to take itself out to be picked up. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fdM2hHW8yA?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Sounds simple enough? The catch is that Ahad wanted to create an AI that…
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Raspberry Pi Off-World Bartender
Reading Time: 4 minutesThree things we like: Blade Runner, robots, and cocktails. That’s why we LOVE Donald Bell‘s Raspberry Pi–packed ‘VK-01 Off-World Bartender‘ cocktail making machine. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9lcwPjyWk?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] This machine was due to be Donald’s entry into the Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge, an annual event in San Francisco. By the time the event was cancelled, he…
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Steampunk ‘Help is coming’ Raspberry Pi alert system
Reading Time: 3 minutesTom Lee decided to combine his household with his sister-in-law during lockdown so that she could help him make childcare more manageable. The problem was, Tom’s household was a smidge frantic in the mornings, as the family struggled to be up and ready in time for his sister-in-law’s arrival. Enter this Raspberry…
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Teaching pigeons with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s been a long lockdown for one of our favourite makers, Pi & Chips. Like most of us (probably), they have turned their hand to training small animals that wander into their garden to pass the time — in this case, pigeons. I myself enjoy raising my glass to the squirrel that…
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Remote teams ring office bell with Raspberry Pi and Slack
Reading Time: 3 minutesBustling offices… remember those? It feels like we’ve all been working from home forever, and it’s going to be a while yet before everyone is back at their desks in the same place. And when that does happen, if your workplace is anything like Raspberry Pi Towers, there will still be lots…
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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 calls out your custom workout routine
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you don’t want to be tied to a video screen during home workouts, Llum Acosta, Samreen Islam, and Alfred Gonzalez shared this great Raspberry Pi–powered alternative on hackster.io: their voice-activated project announces each move of your workout routine and how long you need to do it for. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxixpvTRhwk?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] This LED-lit, compact…
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Raspberry Pi won’t let your watched pot boil
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of our favourite YouTubers, Harrison McIntyre, decided to make the aphorism “a watched pot never boils” into reality. They modified a tabletop burner with a Raspberry Pi so that it will turn itself off if anyone looks at it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1XSx-eaCAY?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] In this project, the Raspberry Pi runs facial detection using…
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This Raspberry Pi–powered setup improves home brewing
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe spied New Orleans–based Raspberry Pi–powered home brewing analysis and were interested in how this project could help other at-home brewers perfect their craft. Raspberry Pi in a case with fan, neatly tucked away on a shelf in the Danger Shed When you’re making beer, you want the yeast to eat up…
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Be a better Scrabble player with a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of our fave makers, Wayne from Devscover, got a bit sick of losing at Scrabble (and his girlfriend was likely raging at being stuck in lockdown with a lesser opponent). So he came up with a Raspberry Pi–powered solution! Using a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera and a bit of Python,…
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Raspberry Pi-powered wedding memories record player
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’re a sentimental bunch and were bowled over by this intricate, musical wedding gift. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and has various other bits of geeky goodness under the hood. Honestly, the extra features just keep coming — you’ll see. This beautifully crafted ‘record player’ plays one pair of newlyweds’ Spotify…
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Meet your new robotic best friend: the MiRo-E dog
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re learning a new language, it’s easier the younger you are. But how can we show very young students that learning to speak code is fun? Consequential Robotics has an answer…The MiRo-E is an ’emotionally engaging’ robot platform that was created on a custom PCB and has since moved onto Raspberry…
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Make it rain chocolate with a Raspberry Pi-powered dispenser
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis fully automated M&M’s-launching machine delivers chocolate on voice command, wherever you are in the room. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsGhCl0y1FY] A quick lesson in physics To get our head around Harrison McIntyre‘s project, first we need to understand parabolas. Harrison explains: “If we ignore air resistance, a parabola can be defined as the arc…
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Build a Raspberry Pi laser scanner
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou really don’t need anything too fancy to build this Raspberry Pi laser scanner, and that’s why we think it’s pretty wonderful. Rasperry Pi 3D Laser Scanner Cornell University: ECE 5725 Michael Xiao and Thomas Scavella Building a Raspberry Pi laser scanner The ingredients you’ll need to build the laser scanner are:…
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Playing The Doors with a door (and a Raspberry Pi)
Reading Time: 2 minutesFloyd Steinberg is back with more synthy Raspberry Pi musical magic, this time turning a door into a MIDI controller. I played The Doors on a door – using a Raspberry PI DIY midi controller and a Yamaha EX5 You see that door? You secretly want that to be a MIDI controller?…
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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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Really, really awesome Raspberry Pi NeoPixel LED mirror
Reading Time: 2 minutesCheck out Super Make Something’s awesome NeoPixel LED mirror: a 576 RGB LED display that converts images via the Raspberry Pi Camera Module and Raspberry Pi 3B+ into a pixelated light show. Neopixel LED Mirror (Python, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting!) DIY How To Time to pull out all the…
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The Nest Box: DIY Springwatch with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week, lots and lots of you shared your Raspberry Pi builds with us on social media using the hashtag #IUseMyRaspberryPiFor. Jay Wainwright from Liverpool noticed the conversation and got in touch to tell us about The Nest Box, which uses Raspberry Pi to bring impressively high-quality images and video from British…
