Schlagwort: retrofit
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Raspberry Pi makes your retro analogue camera digital
Reading Time: 3 minutesBefinitiv has built a custom film cartridge, using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, that turned their gorgeous old analogue camera into a digital one, and enabled it to take digital photos, videos, and even wirelessly live stream to the Internet. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DdQN0NVVT0?start=139&feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] A quick, simple build video for a smooth-running project The…
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Collection of Raspberry Pi retro tech projects
Reading Time: 5 minutesDuring lockdown, Stuart (aka JamHamster) wanted to keep busy whilst between jobs, and ended up building a mini empire of rescued retro systems. Cassette tapes, Game Boys, and floppy disks were all among the treasures he reclaimed. Stuart calls this the “shelf of deceit” – where nothing is what it appears to…
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Raspberry Pi transforms old Wurlitzer into modern digital jukebox
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s been a while since we saw a good jukebox retrofit project, so when we saw this old Wurlitzer transformed into a modern, all-in digital jukebox, we had to share it. Maker Marc Engrie’s cousin came across an old Wurlitzer on a local online second-hand store. The seller had imported it from…
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Play your retro console on a modern TV
Reading Time: 3 minutesWant to connect your retro console to your modern TV? The latest issue of Wireframe magazine has the only guide you need, courtesy of My Life in Gaming’s Mark Duddleson. “Get a Raspberry Pi. Done.” It’s probably the most frequently recurring comment we get across all videos on the My Life in…
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Raspberry Pi turns retro radio into interactive storyteller
Reading Time: 3 minutes8 Bits and a Byte created this voice-controllable, interactive, storytelling device, hidden inside a 1960s radio for extra aesthetic wonderfulness. A Raspberry Pi 3B works with an AIY HAT, a microphone, and the device’s original speaker to run chatbot and speech-to-text artificial intelligence. This creature is a Bajazzo TS made by Telefunken…
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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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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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Raspberry Pi + Furby = ‘Furlexa’ voice assistant
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow can you turn a redundant, furry, slightly annoying tech pet into a useful home assistant? Zach took to howchoo to show you how to combine a Raspberry Pi Zero W with Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service software and a Furby to create Furlexa. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCOsM-4NEKs?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Furby was pretty impressive technology, considering that…
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Atomic TV | The MagPi 97
Reading Time: 4 minutesNothing on television worth watching? Ryan Cochran’s TV set is just as visually arresting when it’s turned off, as David Crookes reports in the latest issue of the MagPi magazine, out now. Flat-screen televisions, with their increasingly thin bezels, are designed to put the picture front and centre. Go back a few…
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Go back in time with a Raspberry Pi-powered radio
Reading Time: 2 minutesTake a musical trip down memory lane all the way back to the 1920s. Sick of listening to the same dozen albums on repeat, or feeling stifled by the funnel of near-identical YouTube playlist rabbit holes? If you’re looking to broaden your musical horizons and combine that quest with a vintage-themed Raspberry…
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Listen to World War II radio recordings with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Reading Time: 9 minutesWith the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings very much in the news this year, Adam Clark found himself interested in all things relating to that era. So it wasn’t long before he found himself on the Internet Archive listening to some of the amazing recordings of radio broadcasts from that time. In…
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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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Chat to Ada Lovelace via a Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur friends, 8 Bits and a Byte, have built a Historic Voicebot, allowing users to chat to their favourite historical figures. It’s rather marvellous. The Historic Voicebot Have a chat with your favourite person from the past with the Historic Voicebot! With this interactive installation, you can talk to a historical figure…
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Retrofit a handheld Casio portable TV with a Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat do we say to the god of outdated tech? Not today! Revive an old portable television with a Raspberry Pi 3! Pocket televisions In the late 1980s, when I was a gadget-savvy kid, my mother bought me a pocket TV as a joint Christmas and birthday present. The TV’s image clarity…
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Video call with a Raspberry Pi and Google Duo
Reading Time: 3 minutesUse Google Duo and a Raspberry Pi to build a video doorbell for your home so you can always be there to answer your door, even when you’re not actually there to answer your door. “Martin Mander builds a good build,” I reply to Liz Upton as she shares this project, Martin’s…
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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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Play Heverlee’s Sjoelen and win beer
Reading Time: 4 minutesChances are you’ve never heard of the Dutch table shuffleboard variant Sjoelen. But if you have, then you’ll know it has a basic premise – to slide wooden pucks into a set of four scoring boxes – but some rather complex rules. Sjoelen machine Uploaded by Grant Gibson on 2018-07-10. Sjoelen It…
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FREE NOODS with FOODBEAST and Nissin
Reading Time: 2 minutesPush a button and share a hashtag to get free ramen, games, or swag with the Dream Machine, a Raspberry Pi–driven vending machine built by FOODBEAST and Nissin. foodbeast.com on Twitter This Instagram-powered vending machine gives away FREE @OrigCupNoodles and VIDEO GAMES 🍜🎮!! Where should it travel next? #ad https://t.co/W0YyWOCFVv Raspberry Pi…
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Upcycle a vintage TV with the Raspberry Pi TV HAT | The MagPi #78
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Martin Mander’s portable Hitachi television was manufactured in 1975, there were just three UK channels and you’d need to leave the comfort of your sofa in order to switch between them. Today, we have multiple viewing options and even a cool Raspberry Pi TV HAT that lets us enjoy DVB-T2 broadcasts…
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Spirit Animal: a guitar with a built-in synthesiser
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK-based Lucem Custom Instruments has teamed up with Seattle’s Tracktion Corporation to create an electric guitar with a built-in Raspberry Pi synthesiser, which they call Spirit Animal. The Spirit Animal concept guitar We love seeing the Raspberry Pi incorporated into old technology such as radios, games consoles and unwanted toys. And we also love…
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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…
