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Sink every shot with this robotic backboard
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSink every shot with this robotic backboard Arduino Team — May 12th, 2020 With many years of practice and discipline, you too can improve your basketball skills. Or you could just choose to play with Shane Wighton’s automated backboard that sinks nearly any shot that you take. The setup uses a Microsoft Kinect,…
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Have a blast with this Arduino-powered laser shooting game
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave a blast with this Arduino-powered laser shooting game Arduino Team — May 12th, 2020 As a fun weekend project at home, Arnaud Atchimon and his son came up with a DIY laser blaster game comprised of a 3D-printed shooter and target setup. Both devices are controlled by an Arduino Nano,…
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Hot Spotter
Reading Time: 3 minutesMade from off-the-shelf hardware, including a Raspberry Pi 3A+, the Hot Spotter can survey an area to create a heat map. “As the drone flies over an area, it records average temperatures of spots on the ground,”explains Jason. “The size of the spot depends on how high the drone is flying, in…
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Please Leave A Message is an interactive plotter that spreads positivity
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlease Leave A Message is an interactive plotter that spreads positivity Arduino Team — May 11th, 2020 As Niklas Roy puts it, “Currently, times are weird.” It’s hard to argue with his sentiment and in order to add a bit more positivity to the world, or at least the area near his…
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This automated mask closes when others are near
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis automated mask closes when others are near Arduino Team — May 11th, 2020 In order to stop the spread of COVID-19, many of us are wearing face masks when outside of our homes. While this can be effective, these coverings can be hot, inhibit breathing, and certainly make eating and drinking…
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ZX Spectrum Next Accelerated review
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe keyboard is a thing of beauty. The keys are responsive, although the layout is a bit weird after years of muscle memory bonded to PC. It’s packed with connections: HDMI and VGA for video out; 3.5 mm ear and mic mini-jacks; PS/2 for keyboard and mouse; plus the mini HDMI and micro…
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Make a Sense HAT rainbow display for your window
Reading Time: 9 minutesBy following our step-by-step guide, you will discover how to light up rainbow and heart images on the Sense HAT’s LED matrix, as well as showing a custom scrolling message. If you don’t have a Sense HAT, you can still try out the code using the Sense HAT Emulator in Raspbian. Click…
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The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Guide out now!
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo coincide with the launch of the High Quality Camera, Raspberry Pi Press has released a new 132-page book to show you how to set it up, shoot great photos and videos, and use it in a range of inspiring projects. A step-by-step illustrated guide reveals how to attach a lens to…
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BiTipText enables text entry across two index finger-worn keyboards
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBiTipText enables text entry across two index finger-worn keyboards Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 Typing with your thumbs on a smartphone has become an everyday activity for many, but what if you could enter text by simply tapping on your index fingers? With BiTipText, that may soon be a reality. …
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Arduino Pro IDE v0.0.6-alpha.preview is out!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Pro IDE v0.0.6-alpha.preview is out! Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 You can now install third party cores! We have developed a handy “Boards Control” feature to help you identify and configure third party boards. Try it out and give us your feedback. Highlights for this release include: Support for…
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Hamster Feeder
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I’d made a video about controlling servo motors using a Raspberry Pi and I wanted to follow that up with a simple, practical project that would put Raspberry Pi-controlled servos into action,” he explains. To that end, the Hamster Feeder was created as a tutorial for his YouTube channel, ExplainingComputers. “It would…
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Control your IKEA smart blinds with an IR remote
Reading Time: < 1 minuteControl your IKEA smart blinds with an IR remote Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 Hacker “replayreb” recently obtained some IKEA FYRTUR motorized blackout shades, but wasn’t satisfied with the stock remote control that comes with them. Instead he wanted to be able to open and shut the blinds with the…
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Nailz turns your fingernails into wearable input system for smart devices
Reading Time: 2 minutesNailz turns your fingernails into wearable input system for smart devices Arduino Team — May 4th, 2020 Researchers at UNIST in South Korea have developed a novel system for smart device input using touch-sensitive fingernails, called Nailz. As noted in the team’s paper, fingernails have long served as a site for body…
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Automation HAT Mini review
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe board’s main connections for inputs and outputs are 3.5 mm screw terminals. As well as a single relay, there are three analogue inputs, three buffered inputs, and three sinking outputs. All of these are tolerant to voltages up to 24 V – which is fine for controlling a plethora of household devices that…
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This tape measure shows the time of day in inches
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis tape measure shows the time of day in inches Arduino Team — May 1st, 2020 Tape measures are great for determining length, width, and height. But what about the fourth dimension, time? Normally you’ll need a different device to show this ever-changing entity, but creators Alex Fiel and Anna Lynton…
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How to use Raspberry Pi temperature & light sensors
Reading Time: 4 minutesTemperature & Light sensor projects: You’ll need Both projects in this tutorial make use of the PiAnalog Python library that lets you connect analogue sensors to Raspberry Pi without special hardware. Although these projects sense temperature and light, you could easily adapt them to use other types or resistive sensor, including stress…
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Recreating Sega’s Columns with Arduino!
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecreating Sega’s Columns with Arduino! Arduino Team — April 30th, 2020 In the early ’90s, Sega shipped its Game Gear console with a falling-block puzzle game called Columns. This Tetris-like game invited users to match colored “jewels” on the ground with lines of three new colors that drop from above. Michael A. Maynard envisioned…
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Emergency ventilators: from ideation to manufacturing
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by César Garcia, researcher at La Hora Maker. Welcome to the second article in this series on ventilators! As we’ve seen last week, ventilators are critical pieces of infrastructure. They must work reliably for long periods of time without missing a beat. Today we will uncover what are the…
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Work from Home and new High Quality Camera in The MagPi #93
Reading Time: 2 minutesClick here to buy The MagPi magazine issue #93 Work from home with Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi 4 is seeing a boom in use as a desktop computer for the home. Whether you’re working with Raspberry Pi, or learning, or looking to do video chat; Gareth Halfacree’s Work from home feature has…
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Win one of five Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera and lens!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe
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A Guide for Parents: How to Learn Electronics and Coding with the Arduino Student Kit
Reading Time: 3 minutesSchools have recently had to make a sudden and seismic shift in the way they teach. As both educators and students get used to remote learning, the onus is now more on parents to support their children through homeschool, and that means parents themselves need support. At Arduino Education, we want to…
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Add Arduino to your resume – the Arduino Certification Program is now available in Simplified Chinese
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd Arduino to your resume – the Arduino Certification Program is now available in Simplified Chinese Arduino Team — April 28th, 2020 With thousands of users around the world entering the Arduino Certification Program, we are excited to announce the availability of the first Arduino Certification Program: Arduino Fundamentals in Simplified Chinese.…
