Schlagwort: Your Projects
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Hire Raspberry Pi as a robot sous-chef in your kitchen
Reading Time: 3 minutesDesign Engineering student Ben Cobley has created a Raspberry Pi–powered sous-chef that automates the easier pan-cooking tasks so the head chef can focus on culinary creativity. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4utRCyo5C4?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Ben named his invention OnionBot, as the idea came to him when looking for an automated way to perfectly soften onions in a pan…
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Monitor your GitHub build with a Raspberry Pi pumpkin
Reading Time: 4 minutesGitHub’s Martin Woodward has created a spooky pumpkin that warns you about the thing programmers find scariest of all — broken builds. Here’s his guest post describing the project: “When you are browsing code looking for open source projects, seeing a nice green passing build badge in the ReadMe file lets you…
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Raspberry Pi High Quality security camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesDJ from the element14 community shows you how to build a red-lensed security camera in the style of Portal 2 using the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera. The finished camera mounted on the wall Portal 2 is a puzzle platform game developed by Valve — a “puzzle game masquerading as a first-person…
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Global sunrise/sunset Raspberry Pi art installation
Reading Time: 3 minutes24h Sunrise/Sunset is a digital art installation that displays a live sunset and sunrise happening somewhere in the world with the use of CCTV. Artist Dries Depoorter wanted to prove that “CCTV cameras can show something beautiful”, and turned to Raspberry Pi to power this global project. Harnessing CCTV The arresting visuals…
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It’s a brand-new NODE Mini Server!
Reading Time: 3 minutesNODE has long been working to create open-source resources to help more people harness the decentralised internet, and their easily 3D-printed designs are perfect to optimise your Raspberry Pi. NODE wanted to take advantage of the faster processor and up to 8GB RAM on Raspberry Pi 4 when it came out last…
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Raspberry Pi Off-World Bartender
Reading Time: 4 minutesThree things we like: Blade Runner, robots, and cocktails. That’s why we LOVE Donald Bell‘s Raspberry Pi–packed ‘VK-01 Off-World Bartender‘ cocktail making machine. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9lcwPjyWk?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] This machine was due to be Donald’s entry into the Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge, an annual event in San Francisco. By the time the event was cancelled, he…
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Steampunk ‘Help is coming’ Raspberry Pi alert system
Reading Time: 3 minutesTom Lee decided to combine his household with his sister-in-law during lockdown so that she could help him make childcare more manageable. The problem was, Tom’s household was a smidge frantic in the mornings, as the family struggled to be up and ready in time for his sister-in-law’s arrival. Enter this Raspberry…
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Mini Raspberry Pi Boston Dynamics–inspired robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a ‘Spot Micro’ walking quadruped robot running on Raspberry Pi 3B. By building this project, redditor /thetrueonion (aka Mike) wanted to teach themself robotic software development in C++ and Python, get the robot walking, and master velocity and directional control. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-uzWG9Z-5E?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Mike was inspired by Spot, one of Boston…
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Track your punches with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Track-o-punches’ tracks the number of punches thrown during workouts with Raspberry Pi and a Realsense camera, and it also displays your progress and sets challenges on a touchscreen. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro9EjjT5d-g?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] In this video, Cisco shows you how to set up the Realsense camera and a Python virtual environment, and how to install…
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Auto-blow bubbles with a Raspberry Pi-powered froggy
Reading Time: 2 minutes8 Bits and a Byte created this automatic bubble machine, which is powered and controlled by a Raspberry Pi and can be switched on via the internet by fans of robots and/or bubbles. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp7LrYoTGsY?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] They chose a froggy-shaped bubble machine, but you can repurpose whichever type you desire; it’s just easier…
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Remote humidity detector
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe know crawl spaces are creepy, sweaty, and confining but, hear us out… You need to keep an eye on the humidity level in your crawl space, as it can seriously affect the whole house’s overall health. It’s ideal to be able to do this remotely (given the creepy, sweaty atmosphere of…
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Who needs vinyl records when you’ve got Raspberry Pi and NFC?
Reading Time: 2 minutesRedditor Mark Hank missed the tactile experience of vinyl records so he removed the insides of an old Sonos Boost to turn it into a Raspberry Pi- and NFC-powered music player. Yes, this really works: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N02-eF822dY] The Sonos Boost was purchased for just £3 on eBay. Mark pulled all the original…
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Go sailing with this stop-motion 3D-printed boat
Reading Time: 2 minutesShot on a Raspberry Pi Camera Module, this stop-motion sequence is made up of 180 photos that took two hours to shoot and another hour to process. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsdIEe-0gNw] The trick lies in the Camera Module enabling you to change the alpha transparency of the overlay image, which is the previous frame.…
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Travel the world with a retro musical phone
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis rotary phone features a built-in Raspberry Pi that communicates with radiooooo.com (a musical time machine) and an Arduino working behind the map to control the selection of the country. Just pick up the phone, choose a country and a decade, and listen to some great music! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz1SBkfLXiY] How does it…
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Deep learning cat prey detector
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve all been able to check on our kitties’ outdoor activities for a while now, thanks to motion-activated cameras. And the internet’s favourite cat flap even live-tweets when it senses paws through the door. “Did you already make dinner? I stopped on the way home to pick this up for you.” But…
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Be a better Scrabble player with a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of our fave makers, Wayne from Devscover, got a bit sick of losing at Scrabble (and his girlfriend was likely raging at being stuck in lockdown with a lesser opponent). So he came up with a Raspberry Pi–powered solution! Using a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera and a bit of Python,…
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Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera powers up homemade microscope
Reading Time: 3 minutesWow, DIY-Maxwell, wow. This reddit user got their hands on one of our new Raspberry Pi High Quality Cameras and decided to upgrade their homemade microscope with it. The brains of the thing are also provided by a Raspberry Pi. Key features Raspberry Pi OS 8 MegaPixel CMOS camera (Full HD 30…
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Learning with Raspberry Pi — robotics, a Master’s degree, and beyond
Reading Time: 5 minutesMeet Callum Fawcett, who shares his journey from tinkering with the first Raspberry Pi while he was at school, to a Master’s degree in computer science and a real-life job in programming. We also get to see some of the awesome projects he’s made along the way. I first decided to get…
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Raspberry Pi–powered bonsai watering system
Reading Time: 2 minutesBonsai trees are the most glorious of miniature shrubbery. But caring for them takes seriously green fingers. Luckily, this Raspberry Pi–powered bonsai watering system doesn’t require much to get started. Also, the Reddit user who shared the project is named Lord-of-the-Pis, so, we love. You will need: Raspberry Pi Submersible water pump…
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Raspberry Pi-powered wedding memories record player
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’re a sentimental bunch and were bowled over by this intricate, musical wedding gift. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and has various other bits of geeky goodness under the hood. Honestly, the extra features just keep coming — you’ll see. This beautifully crafted ‘record player’ plays one pair of newlyweds’ Spotify…
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Vulkan update: now with added source code
Reading Time: 4 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 is almost five months since we announced the Vulkan effort for Raspberry Pi 4. It was great to see how many people were excited…
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Make it rain chocolate with a Raspberry Pi-powered dispenser
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis fully automated M&M’s-launching machine delivers chocolate on voice command, wherever you are in the room. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsGhCl0y1FY] A quick lesson in physics To get our head around Harrison McIntyre‘s project, first we need to understand parabolas. Harrison explains: “If we ignore air resistance, a parabola can be defined as the arc…