Schlagwort: Your Projects
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Automate analogue film scanning with Raspberry Pi and LEGO
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis automated analogue film scanner runs on a Raspberry Pi and LEGO bricks. BenjBez took to Reddit to share this incredible lockdown project, which makes processing film photographs easier. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegPnVco0Qc?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Video by Benjamin Bezine Benj explains: “When doing analog photography, scanning is the most painful part – RoboScan tries to make…
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Raspberry Pi auto-uploads camera images with PiPhoto
Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture the scene – you’ve just returned from an amazing trip armed with hundreds of photos. You don’t want to lose those memories. However, you also don’t want to spend the next three hours uploading and organising them. An automated solution Lou Kratz spends pretty much every weekend capturing his adventures on…
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Interactive origami art with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesRoss Symons is an incredible origami artist who harnessed Raspberry Pi and Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap board to bring his traditional paper creations to life in an interactive installation piece. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUX7ya_oAgw?feature=oembed&w=500&h=375] Video by White On Rice Touchy-feely The Pi Cap is “[a]n easy-to-attach add-on board that brings capacitive sensing to your…
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Low-cost Raspberry Pi Zero endoscope camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers at the University of Cape Town set about developing an affordable wireless endoscope camera to rival expensive, less agile options. Endoscopic cameras are used to look at organs inside your body. A long, thin, flexible tube with a light at the end is fed down your throat (for example), and an…
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Remotely monitor freezer temperatures with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesElizabeth from Git Tech’d has shown us how to monitor freezers and fridges remotely with a temperature sensor and Raspberry Pi. A real-time temperature monitor dashboard lets you keep an eye on things, and text message alerts can be set up to let you know when the temperature is rising. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSwVGgmGjhU?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]…
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Raspberry Pi thermal camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt has been a cold winter for Tom Shaffner, and since he is working from home and leaving the heating on all day, he decided it was finally time to see where his house’s insulation could be improved. Tom’s setup inside a case with a cooling fan; the camera is taped on…
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Raspberry Pi makes LEGO minifigures play their own music
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe shared Dennis Mellican’s overly effective anti-burglary project last month. Now he’s back with something a whole lot more musical and mini. [embedded content] Inspiration Dennis was inspired by other jukebox projects that use Raspberry Pi, NFC readers, and tags to make music play. Particularly this one by Mark Hank, which we…
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Coding on Raspberry Pi remotely with Visual Studio Code
Reading Time: 5 minutesJim Bennett from Microsoft, who showed you all how to get Visual Studio Code up and running on Raspberry Pi last week, is back to explain how to use VS Code for remote development on a headless Raspberry Pi. Like a lot of Raspberry Pi users, I like to run my Raspberry…
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Check beer stock with Keg Punk on Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you remember the Danger Shed? New Orleans-based Raspberry Pi-powered home brewing monitoring set up in a… shed? Well, Patrick Murphy and his brewing crew are back with a new toy. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJrua4wInQ?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] How does it work? What is it? It’s called Keg Punk – inventory software written in Python, specifically for…
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Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 5 minutesMicrosoft’s Visual Studio Code is an excellent C development environment, and now it’s an easy install on Raspberry Pi. Here’s Jim Bennett from Microsoft to show you all how to get VS Code up and running on our tiny computer. Take it away, Jim… There are a few products in the tech…
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Raspberry Pi LEGO sorter
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI–powered, automated sorting machine that is capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick. And its maker Daniel West believes it to be the first of its kind in the world! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JkdHEX3Yk?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Best ever This mega-machine was two years in the making and…
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Deter burglars with a Raspberry Pi chatbot
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow to improve upon the standard burglar deterring method of leaving lights switched on? Dennis Mellican turned to Raspberry Pi for a much more effective solution. It actually proved too effective when a neighbour stopped by, but more on that in a bit. Here you can see Dennis’s system in action scaring…
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RetroPie booze barrel
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat do we want? Retro gaming, adult beverages, and our favourite Spotify playlist. When do we want them? All at the same time. Luckily, u/breadtangle took to reddit to answer our rum-soaked prayers with this beautifully crafted beer barrel-cum-arcade machine-cum-drinks cabinet. We approve of this drink selection The addition of a sneaky…
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Get VMWare on Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesHacking apart a sweet, innocent Raspberry Pi – who would do such a thing? Network Chuck, that’s who. But he has a very cool reason for it so, we’ll let him off the hook. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLyZisehCU?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Subscribe to Network Chuck on YouTube He’s figured out how to install VMware ESXi on Raspberry…
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These Furby-‘controlled’ Raspberry Pi-powered eyes follow you
Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Battle aka LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER couldn’t resist splashing out on a clear Macintosh case for a new project in his ‘Cosmo’ series of builds, which inject new life into retro hardware. AAGGGGHHHHHHH! This time around, a Raspberry Pi, running facial recognition software, and one of our Camera Modules enable Furby-style…
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Smart Fairy Tale
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is creepy, and we love it. OK, it’s not REALLY creepy, it’s just that some people have an aversion to dolls that appear to move of their own accord, due to a disturbing childhood experience — but enough about me. Smart Fairy Tale is a whimsical, unique community project created by…
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Raspberry Pi ‘Swear Bear’ keeps your potty mouth in check
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy use a regular swear jar to retrain your potty-mouthed brain when you can build a Swear Bear to help you instead? Swear Bear listens to you. All the time. And Swear Bear can tell when a swear word is used. Swear Bear tells you off and saves all the swear words…
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Personal Raspberry Pi music streamer
Reading Time: 3 minutesMike Perez from Audio Arkitekts took to YouTube to show you how to build your own music streamer using a Raspberry Pi. Haters of Bluetooth and RCA plugs, he’s done this for you. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXJ9BT0uuI?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Mike reports a “substantial difference in sound quality” compared to his previous setup (the aforementioned and reviled…
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Vulkan update: we’re conformant!
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we have a guest post from Igalia’s Iago Toral, who has spent the past year working on the Mesa graphic driver stack for Raspberry Pi 4. It’s been nearly a year since we first announced that we were developing a Vulkan driver for the latest generation of Raspberry Pi devices (Raspberry…
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Classify your trash with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaker Jen Fox took to hackster.io to share a Raspberry Pi–powered trash classifier that tells you whether the trash in your hand is recyclable, compostable, or just straight-up garbage. Jen reckons this project is beginner-friendly, as you don’t need any code to train the machine learning model, just a little to load…
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Defeat evil with a Raspberry Pi foam-firing spy camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesRuth and Shawn from YouTube channel Kids Invent Stuff picked a cool idea by 9-year-old Nathan, who drew a Foam-Firing Spy Camera, to recreate in real life. FYI: that’s not really a big camera lens… The trick with spy devices is to make sure they look as much like the object they’re…
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Raspberry Pi smart IoT glove
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnimator/engineer Ashok Fair has put witch-level finger pointing powers in your hands by sticking a SmartEdge Agile, wirelessly controlled by Raspberry Pi Zero, to a golf glove. You could have really freaked the bejeezus out of Halloween party guests with this (if we were allowed to have Halloween parties that is). [youtube…