Schlagwort: Raspberry Pi Zero/Zero W
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Tracking the Brecon Beacons ultramarathon with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn my holidays this year I enjoyed a walk in the Brecon Beacons. We set out nice and early, walked 22km through some of the best scenery in Britain, got a cup of tea from the snack van on the A470, and caught our bus home. “I enjoyed that walk,” I thought,…
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Retrofit a vintage camera flash with a Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWanting to break from the standard practice of updating old analogue cameras with digital technology, Alan Wang decided to retrofit a broken vintage camera flash with a Raspberry Pi Zero W to produce a video-capturing action cam. Raspberry Pi Zero Flash Cam Video Test Full story of this project: https://www.hackster.io/alankrantas/raspberry-pi-zero-flash-cam-359875 By…
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Build your own Raspberry Pi night vision camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Raspberry Pi Zero W, Pimoroni HyperPixel screen, and Raspberry Pi IR Camera Module are all you need to build this homemade night vision camera. How to build a night vision camera How to build a night vision camera, video showing the process and problems that I came across when building this camera…
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Real-time train station departure board
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll across the UK, you’ll find train departure boards on station platforms that look like this: They’ve looked this way for as long as I can remember (before they were digital dot-matrix displays, they were made from those flappy bits of plastic with letters of the alphabet and numbers printed on them,…
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Build Demolition Man’s verbal morality ticketing machine
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the 1993 action movie Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone stars as a 1990s cop transported to the near-future. Technology plays a central role in the film, often bemusing the lead character. In a memorable scene, he is repeatedly punished by a ticketing machine for using bad language (a violation of the verbal…
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Raspberry Pi internet kill switch
Reading Time: 2 minutesControl the internet in your home with this handy Raspberry Pi Zero W internet kill switch. Internet Kill Switch! It’s every teenager’s worst nightmare… no WIFI! I built a standalone wireless Internet Kill Switch that lets me turn the Internet off whenever I want. A Raspberry Pi Zero W monitors the switch…
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Raspberry Pi Zero white noise night light
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany members of the Raspberry Pi team have small children. As such, many members of the Raspberry Pi team are constantly tired and walking around like zombies — loving, productive zombies humming Baby Shark while scrubbing food stains off their clothing. Whenever a Raspberry Pi project appears on social media that aids…
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IT’S SO HOT OVER HERE. WE’RE MELTING. SEND HELP.
Reading Time: 5 minutes[Today’s temperatures are set to reach a whopping 38ºC/101ºF degrees in the UK, and none of us know what to do with ourselves. This doesn’t happen here and we have nothing prepared: we live in a society devoid of air conditioning, and we’re are unable to comprehend weather conditions more friendly than…
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IT’S SO HOT OVER HERE. WE’RE MELTING. SEND HELP.
Reading Time: 5 minutes[Today’s temperatures are set to reach a whopping 38ºC/101ºF degrees in the UK, and none of us know what to do with ourselves. This doesn’t happen here and we have nothing prepared: we live in a society devoid of air conditioning, and we’re are unable to comprehend weather conditions more friendly than…
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Good Buoy: the Raspberry Pi Smart Buoy
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs their new YouTube video shows, the team at T3ch Flicks have been hard at work, designing and prototyping a smart buoy for marine conservation research. Smart-Buoy Series [Summary] We all love the seaside, right? Whether that’s the English seaside with ice creams and muddy piers or the Caribbean, with white sand beaches…
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The world’s first Raspberry Pi-powered Twitter-activated jelly bean-pooping unicorn
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen eight-year-old Tru challenged the Kids Invent Stuff team to build a sparkly, pooping, rainbow unicorn electric vehicle, they did exactly that. And when Kids Invent Stuff, also known as Ruth and Shawn, got in contact with Estefannie Explains it All, their unicorn ended up getting an IoT upgrade…because obviously. You tweet and…
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Penguin Watch — Pi Zeros and Camera Modules in the Antarctic
Reading Time: 2 minutesLong-time readers will remember Penguin Lifelines, one of our very favourite projects from back in the mists of time (which is to say 2014 — we have short memories around here). Click on penguins for fun and conservation Penguin Lifelines was a programme run by the Zoological Society of London, crowdsourcing the tracking…
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Portable retro CTR game console: the one-thumb entertainment system
Reading Time: 3 minutesOTES is the one-thumb entertainment system that, unsurprisingly, requires only one thumb to play. One-Thumb Entertainment System Uploaded by gocivici on 2019-04-29. Retro handheld gaming Straight out the bat, I have to admit that had this existed in the 80s, it would have been all I played with. OTES oozes gaming nostalgia,…
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Rousseau-inspired Raspberry Pi Zero LED piano visualiser
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnlock your inner Rousseau with this gorgeous Raspberry Pi Zero LED piano visualiser. Piano LED Visualizer Inspired by Rousseau videos I tried to build my own Piano Visualizer. It is made with Raspberry Pi and WS2812B LED strip. Screen and buttons: Waveshare LCD TFT 1,44” 128x128px. Pianist Rousseau Fans of the popular YouTube…
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Watch Game of Thrones with a Raspberry Pi-powered Drogon
Reading Time: 2 minutesChannel your inner Targaryen by building this voice-activated, colour-changing, 3D-printed Drogon before watching the next episode of Game of Thrones. Winter has come This is a spoiler-free zone! I’ve already seen the new episode of season 8, but I won’t ruin anything, I promise. Even if you’ve never watched an episode of…
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Hacking an Etch-A-Sketch with a Raspberry Pi and camera: Etch-A-Snap!
Reading Time: 2 minutesKids of the 1980s, rejoice: the age of the digital Etch-A-Sketch is now! What is an Etch-A-Sketch Introduced in 1960, the Etch-A-Sketch was invented by Frenchman André Cassagnes and manufactured by the Ohio Art Company. The back of the Etch-A-Sketch screen is covered in very fine aluminium powder. Turning one of the two…
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Laser-engraved Raspberry Pi hologram
Reading Time: 2 minutesInspired by an old episode of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank, and with easy access to the laser cutter at the Raspberry Pi Foundation office, I thought it would be fun to create a light-up multi-layered hologram using a Raspberry Pi and the Pimoroni Unicorn pHAT. Raspberry Pi layered light Read more – Break…
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Handheld text-based adventure gaming with Quest Smith
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlay text-based adventure games that print out in real time, with Quest Smith: the Raspberry Pi Zero W–driven handheld gaming device from Bekir Dağ. Quest Smith Quest Smith is a raspberry pi zero driven thermal printing text based game. In each level, it gives you options to choose so every game is…
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Automatic Calling System using Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf like me, you’re awful at remembering birthdays, you need Piyush Charpe’s Automatic Birthday Calling System. It’s the Raspberry Pi device that calls on your behalf – aka Heaven for Introverts. Building business relationships through niceness Piyush’s father works as an insurance adviser, and, because he’s a lovely chap, he makes it his…
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Monitoring insects at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reading Time: 2 minutesA simple Raspberry Pi camera setup is helping staff at the Victoria and Albert Museum track and identify insects that are threatening priceless exhibits. “Fiacre, I need an image of bug infestation at the V&A!” The problem with bugs Bugs: there’s no escaping them. Whether it’s ants in your kitchen or cockroaches in your…
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Is this the most ‘all-in-one’ a computer can possibly be?
Reading Time: 3 minutesElectronic Grenade’s Computer Mouse is the turducken of the tech world, stuffed so full of computing gubbins that you genuinely don’t need anything else. Don’t believe us? See for yourself: The “Computer” Mouse: A DIY Project The computer mouse is an entire laptop computer in mouse form that uses the raspberry pi…
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Send audio messages to your loved ones
Reading Time: 2 minutesValentine’s Day is fast approaching, so why not make this adorable voice message device for your beloved? Love Birds : a Box to Send and Receive Telegram Audio Message How to make it: https://www.raspiaudio.com/lovebirds and https://www.instructables.com/id/Love-Birds-a-Box-to-Send-and-Receive-Telegram-Audi/ It’s a standalone device that receives send voice messages to your love, family or friend. Open…
