Schlagwort: raspi

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou can watch the ‘First Raspberry Pi 5 tablet’ build on YouTube. Tight fit The project began with disconnecting the fan wires from the GPIO on Raspberry Pi 5 and unscrewing the standoffs. The Ethernet and USB 3.0 cables inside the RasPad are quite short, so they were a little more stretched…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat is an underwater ROV? If you’re not sure what an underwater ROV is, the short answer is: a Remotely Operated Vehicle you chuck in the sea. But if you’re our favourite kind of geek and wish to feast on a much longer answer, Blue Robotics has shared a short history and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesA sixth joint rotates the end of the head, to which you can attach various accessories using tiny LEGO connectors inserted into its grid of holes and those on the accessory, making them easy to fit and remove. A similar LEGO connection system is used on the bottom of the robot to…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe two Toms continue to work together and are both members of Sheffield-based VolcanoTech. They aim to get more instruments onto volcanoes and acquire unprecedented long-term datasets that contribute to volcano research and monitoring. Designing and constructing low-cost scientific instrumentation is crucial for developing countries, where funding for equipment can be quite…

Reading Time: 3 minutesStart your Raspberry Pi adventure We may be a little heavy-handed on the Dungeons & Dragons metaphor this month. This guide to beginning your Raspberry Pi is packed with information, hints, and things to discover with your favourite computer. It’s the perfect guidebook for Raspberry Pi newcomers.  Raspberry Pi Beginner Projects We…

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: 3 minutesFor us landlubbers, tides aren’t always something we have to think about, although Levi was familiar with the tide clocks where he grew up. Not being able to find one for his new Californian home, Levi decided to make his own: “It displays current tide height in feet, predicted hours until next…

Reading Time: 3 minutesHe had a number of Raspberry Pis at home and built a solar-powered watering system using Raspberry Pi A+ back in 2015. He says the low-powered footprint paired with the significant compute capabilities of Raspberry Pi 4 prompted him to explore its machine learning potential at home. Inaudible alarm bells Having moved house in…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPower is connected using Pico W’s micro USB port – as usual, you can hook this up to a computer for programming in MicroPython or C/C++, or flashing Pico W with new firmware. Alternatively, PicoVision can be powered via two unpopulated pins. There’s also a breakout header for CPU and GPU debugging,…

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith an ongoing fascination with PalmOS – “it was the first mobile OS with any sort of success and it gave the world the term ‘smartphone” – Dmitry says he wanted to see if he could put the operating system on another device with minimal changes. He looked into emulating the hardware with…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt its simplest, washing up liquid and a loop in which to form bubbles is all that’s needed to create this low-cost and playful distraction. But having set a precedent delighting pupils with her builds and science experiments, Aula was determined to design something that would catch their imagination while also encouraging…

Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite his thoroughly modern career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley and a CV that lists VMware and Google among his credits, Raju has a fondness for the old days. “I have always loved to tinker and repurpose old hardware to build something new”, he says, favouring Raspberry Pi boards because…