Schlagwort: Your Projects
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Fix slow Nintendo Switch play with your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesIs your Nintendo Switch behaving more like a Nintendon’t due to poor connectivity? Well, TopSpec (hosted Chris Barlas) has shared a brilliant Raspberry Pi-powered hack on YouTube to help you fix that. Here’s the problem… When you play Switch online, the servers are peer-to-peer. The Switches decide which Switch’s internet connection is…
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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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Retro Nixie tube lights get smart
Reading Time: 2 minutesNixie tubes: these electronic devices, which can display numerals or other information using glow discharge, made their first appearance in 1955, and they remain popular today because of their cool, vintage aesthetic. Though lots of companies manufactured these items back in the day, the name ‘Nixie’ is said to derive from a…
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These loo rolls formed a choir
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave all of y’all been hoarding toilet roll over recent weeks in an inexplicable response to the global pandemic, or is that just a quirk here in the UK? Well, the most inventive use of the essential household item we’ve ever seen is this musical project by Max Björverud. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf6pai97n2o] Ahh,…
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Track your cat’s activity with a homemade speedometer
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirstly, hamster wheels for cats are (still) a thing. Secondly, Bengal cats run far. And Shawn Nunley on reddit is the latest to hit on this solution for kitty exercise and bonus cat stats. Here is the wheel itself. That part was shop-bought. (Apparently it’s a ZiggyDoo Ferris Cat Wheel.) Smol kitty…
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Create your own home office work status light with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re working from home and you have children, you’re probably finding it all pretty demanding at the moment. Spreadsheets and multiple tabs and concentrating aren’t nearly so manageable without the dedicated workspace you have at the office and with, instead, small people vying relentlessly for your attention. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY] And that’s…
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Resurrecting a vintage microwave sensor with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s one of those lovely “old tech new spec” projects, courtesy of hackster.io pro Martin Mander. After finding a vintage Apollo microwave detector at a car boot sale, and realising the display hole in the top was roughly the same size as a small Adafruit screen, he saw the potential to breath…
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This clock really, really doesn’t want to tell you the time
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat’s worse than a clock that doesn’t work? One that makes an “unbearably loud screeching noise” every minute of every day is a strong contender. That was the aural nightmare facing YouTuber Burke McCabe. But rather than just fix the problem, he decided, in true Raspberry Pi community fashion, to go one…
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Crunch your way through morning meetings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, so, we’re not really here. It is a public holiday in the UK and we are all between three and seventeen pounds of Easter chocolate and hot cross buns deep. Our teeth hurt. Anyway, we’re not sure what possessed our cute friends over at Deep Local to do this, but…
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Five years of Raspberry Pi clusters
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this guest blog post, OpenFaaS founder and Raspberry Pi super-builder Alex Ellis walks us down a five-year-long memory lane explaining how things have changed for cluster users. I’ve been writing about running Docker on Raspberry Pi for five years now and things have got a lot easier than when I started…
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FluSense takes on COVID-19 with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi devices are often used by scientists, especially in biology to capture and analyse data, and a particularly striking – and sobering – project has made the news this week. Researchers at UMass Amherst have created FluSense, a dictionary-sized piece of equipment comprising a cheap microphone array, a thermal sensor, an…
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Ashley’s top five projects for Raspberry Pi first-timers
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is time. Time to go to that little stack of gifts from well-wishers who have badged you as “techie” or noted that you “play computer games”. Armed with this information, they decided you’d like to receive one of our small and perfectly formed Raspberry Pis. You were thrilled. You could actually…
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Stay busy in your Vault with a Raspberry Pi Zero Pipboy
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile being holed up in the Vaults living off our stash of Nuke cola, we’ve come across this mammoth junk-build project, which uses Raspberry Pi Zero W to power a working Pipboy. Pipboy scrap build No Description UK-based JustBuilding went full Robert House and, over several months, built the device’s body by…
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Building a split mechanical keyboard with a Raspberry Pi Zero controller
Reading Time: 3 minutesLooking to build their own ergonomic mechanical split keyboard, Gosse Adema turned to the Raspberry Pi Zero W for help. So long, dear friend Gosse has been happily using a Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard for years. You know the sort, they look like this: Twenty years down the line, the keyboard has…
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Raspberry Pi vs antibiotic resistance: microbiology imaging with open source hardware
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Edwards Lab at the University of Reading has developed a flexible, low-cost, open source lab robot for capturing images of microbiology samples with a Raspberry Pi camera module. It’s called POLIR, for Raspberry Pi camera Open-source Laboratory Imaging Robot. Here’s a timelapse video of them assembling it. Measuring antibiotic resistance with…
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Make a hamster feeder with Raspberry Pi Zero
Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople make marvellous things for their pets with Raspberry Pi. Here’s a splendid hamster feeder tutorial from Christopher Barnatt of Explaining Computers, just perfect if you’re after a small project for this weekend. Raspberry Pi Zero Hamster Feeder Raspberry Pi servo-controlled pet feeder, using a Raspberry Pi Zero and two SG90…
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Build a Raspberry Pi Zero W Amazon price tracker
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever missed out on a great deal on Amazon because you were completely unaware it existed? Are you interested in a specific item but waiting for it to go on sale? Here’s help: Devscover’s latest video shows you how to create an Amazon price tracker using Raspberry Pi Zero W…
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3D-printable Raspberry Pi bits and pieces you should totally make
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently, we’ve seen an awful lot of new designs online for 3D-printable Raspberry Pi cases and add-ons. Here are a few that definitely need your attention. Turbine RGB Lamp Described as “a Turbine-fin Lamp with some RGB Neopixels in the middle,” this print from Thingiverse user kryptn would be a rather lovely…
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Cats and lasers and (Raspberry) Pi, OH MY!
Reading Time: 4 minutesKeeping a modern cat entertained requires something more high-tech than a ball of yarn. The MagPi’s Phil King wonders if this is a purr-fect project… WARNING! LASER EYE! Don’t look into a laser beam, and don’t point a laser beam at a somebody’s head. For more on things you SHOULDN’T do with…
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What was your first Raspberry Pi project?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuick and simple blog post today: what was your first Raspberry Pi project? Or, if you’ve yet to enter the world of Raspberry Pi ownership, what would you like to do with your Raspberry Pi once you get one? Answer in the comments below, or on Twitter using #MyFirstRaspberryPi. Photos aren’t…
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Citizen science traffic monitoring with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesHomes in Madrid, Dublin, Cardiff, Ljubljana, and Leuven are participating in the Citizens Observing UrbaN Transport (WeCount) project, a European Commission–funded research project investigating sustainable economic growth. 1,500 Raspberry Pi traffic sensors will be distributed to homes in the five cities to gather data on traffic conditions. Every hour, the devices will…
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TechWiser’s giant Raspberry Pi AirPod speaker (and more)
Reading Time: 2 minutesYouTube is a haven for awesome Raspberry Pi projects, and we often spend time scanning through the platform’s wares for hidden gems. One such hidden gem is this video from TechWiser, in which they showcase some of their favourite Raspberry Pi projects: Cool Raspberry Pi 4 Projects We Use At TechWiser Here…