Schlagwort: #technology
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An Arduino-enabled observatory dome door opener
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn Arduino-enabled observatory dome door opener Arduino Team — February 27th, 2020 The South Florida Science Center recently commissioned a beautiful new 10” aperture refactor telescope. Its dome, however, was opened by hand; so in an effort to modernize this part of the setup, Andres Paris and his brother “patanwilson” added a windshield…
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Arm Pelion Device Management comes to the Arduino IoT Cloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesArm Pelion Device Management comes to the Arduino IoT Cloud Arduino Team — February 27th, 2020 As part of Arduino’s expanding relationship with Arm and continuing commitment to professionals, Arm Pelion Device Management users can now seamlessly use Arduino IoT Cloud to quickly create IoT applications. Combining the speed of application development…
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#MonthOfMaking, Starter Electronics and new entry-level Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB RAM in The MagPi 91
Reading Time: 2 minutesClick here to buy The MagPi Magazine issue #91 #MonthOfMaking Once a year The MagPi magazine readers come together and commit to build something. And we all reach out to each other online and offer encouragement. Pick up your copy of The MagPi magazine #91 to learn all about #MonthOfMaking. Let’s build…
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OpenAstroTracker is a tracking and GoTo mount for DSLR astrophotography
Reading Time: 2 minutesOpenAstroTracker is a tracking and GoTo mount for DSLR astrophotography Arduino Team — February 26th, 2020 Stars appear to stand still, but wait a few minutes and they won’t be in quite the same place. This means that if you want to take a long-exposure image of the sky with your DSLR you’ll…
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Win a Raspberry Pi Desktop kit SIGNED by Eben Upton!
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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Resys is an LED drawer system that makes it easy to find your resistors
Reading Time: < 1 minuteResys is an LED drawer system that makes it easy to find your resistors Arduino Team — February 25th, 2020 You’ve got your design ready to go, you know you have the right components… but where exactly did you place that particular resistor? With the Resys drawer system by Lynlimer, you…
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WeatherMan
Reading Time: 3 minutesMartin became enamoured of all things Raspberry Pi-flavoured in 2014. Looking for a one-box alternative to a PC for converted gadgets, he was tipped off by a reader that Raspberry Pi might work. He duly made a Raspberry Pi-powered VCR and Alexa Rotary Phone. Numerous ‘fruitful’ projects followed. There’s now a sizeable…
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Take control of your dashboard — the new Arduino IoT Cloud Dashboard with advanced features!
Reading Time: 2 minutesTake control of your dashboard — the new Arduino IoT Cloud Dashboard with advanced features! Arduino Team — February 24th, 2020 The new dashboard for the Arduino IoT Cloud comes with a host of enhanced features. It allows you to gather and display data from multiple IoT devices in one dashboard, and…
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Duel Disk System blends physical cards with a virtual playfield
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuel Disk System blends physical cards with a virtual playfield Arduino Team — February 21st, 2020 Yu-Gi-Oh! and other similar card games can be quite popular, but actually finding a group to play with can be challenging. Online games, on the other hand, have their advantages yet render your deck pretty…
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Room Guard: build a Raspberry Pi motion sensor alarm
Reading Time: 6 minutesRoom Guard: You’ll Need Why an Automation HAT? Many Raspberry Pi physical computing projects directly use the GPIO to connect things like sensors, buzzers, and LEDs. In this case, we’re going use the incredibly versatile Pimoroni Automation HAT. This ‘input expander’ allows us to control devices that would normally either be incompatible…
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Room Guard: build a Raspberry Pi motion sensor alarm
Reading Time: 6 minutesRoom Guard: You’ll Need Why an Automation HAT? Many Raspberry Pi physical computing projects directly use the GPIO to connect things like sensors, buzzers, and LEDs. In this case, we’re going use the incredibly versatile Pimoroni Automation HAT. This ‘input expander’ allows us to control devices that would normally either be incompatible…
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Audio radar – accessible radar tech
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The radar introduces the user in an easy and accessible way to electronics, [as well as] embedded systems and how radar detects return signals and performs filtering to measure radial velocity and distance to objects,” he explains. The radar is based on a Raspberry Pi 3B which hosts a web server to…
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Audio radar – accessible radar tech
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The radar introduces the user in an easy and accessible way to electronics, [as well as] embedded systems and how radar detects return signals and performs filtering to measure radial velocity and distance to objects,” he explains. The radar is based on a Raspberry Pi 3B which hosts a web server to…
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This SpaceX fan created a levitating Starship lamp
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis SpaceX fan created a levitating Starship lamp Arduino Team — February 18th, 2020 Although you might not be able to build or house your own SpaceX Starship, YouTuber “Embrace Racing” has created a levitating lamp model that will be much more attainable for non-multi-billionaires. The lamp’s landing pad features an Arduino Nano…
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AAScan is an open source, Arduino-powered 3D scanner that uses your phone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAAScan is an open source, Arduino-powered 3D scanner that uses your phone Arduino Team — February 18th, 2020 3D scanners are amazing tools that literally let you turn everyday things into three-dimensional computer models. As seen on Reddit, if you want to make one yourself — using little more than a…
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A DIY digital readout for your wood lathe
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA DIY digital readout for your wood lathe Arduino Team — February 15th, 2020 Small wood lathes don’t typically come with an RPM readout, so after obtaining such a machine several months ago, engineer Zach — also known as ‘byte sized’ — decided to build his own custom display. The device…
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arduino-cli 0.8.0 is here!
Reading Time: < 1 minutearduino-cli 0.8.0 is here! Arduino Team — February 14th, 2020 Our dev team is grateful for the high quality contributions that the project is receiving, and is working hard to collect all the lovely feedback we have received to shape the Arduino CLI into the best tool possible for the community!…
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RetroFlag GPi Case
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore than a simple enclosure for the Raspberry Pi Zero, this rather familiar-looking unit is a full-blown battery-powered gaming console that (just about) fits in the palm of your hand. Game on The clever design of the RetroFlag GPi case replicates that of eighties handheld consoles, including a cartridge-like unit that slides…
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Arduino 1.8.12 is out!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino 1.8.12 is out! Arduino Team — February 13th, 2020 Today, we are excited to announce the arrival of the Arduino IDE 1.8.12. Wow! Another release just after two weeks, you ask? Well, we fixed some serious bugs related to the compiler, and more importantly, we had to take a step…
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This retro-looking rotary cellphone is free of modern-day distractions
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis retro-looking rotary cellphone is free of modern-day distractions Arduino Team — February 13th, 2020 What we carry today in our pockets is nominally called a “phone,” but more often than not we’re using it to do various other computing tasks. Justine Haupt, however, wanted an actual phone that “goes as far from…
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Pi Wars 2020 robots raring to go
Reading Time: 2 minutesPi Wars 2020 is going to be an absolute train wreck – at least that’s the hope of its organisers, Mike Horne and Tim Richardson. With a somewhat apocalyptic atmosphere swirling when it came time to choose a theme, Pi Wars organisers declared the 2020 event – the sixth Raspberry Pi robot…
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Mechanical 7-segment display made with micro servos and an Arduino Mega
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMechanical 7-segment display made with micro servos and an Arduino Mega Arduino Team — February 12th, 2020 Flip displays are an interesting piece of technology, physically moving segments into place that stay put until other information is needed. Michael Klements has been especially fascinated by these devices, and after inspiration from…