Schlagwort: Your Projects
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IoT community sprinkler system using Raspberry Pi | The MagPi issue 83
Reading Time: 4 minutesSaving water, several thousand lawns at a time: The MagPi magazine takes a look at the award-winning IoT sprinkler system of Coolest Projects USA participant Adarsh Ambati. At any Coolest Projects event, you’re bound to see incredible things built by young makers. At Coolest Projects USA, we had the chance to talk…
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Steampunk-inspired Raspberry Pi enclosure | HackSpace magazine #20
Reading Time: 2 minutesWho doesn’t like a good-looking case for their Raspberry Pi? Exactly. We’ve seen many homemade cases over the years, from 3D-printed enclosures to LEGO, Altoid tins and gravity-defying Zelda-themed wonderments. We love them all as much as we love own — our own case being this one if you fancy one —…
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Chat to Ada Lovelace via a Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur friends, 8 Bits and a Byte, have built a Historic Voicebot, allowing users to chat to their favourite historical figures. It’s rather marvellous. The Historic Voicebot Have a chat with your favourite person from the past with the Historic Voicebot! With this interactive installation, you can talk to a historical figure…
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An in-flight entertainment system that isn’t terrible
Reading Time: 2 minutesNo Alex today; she’s tragically germ-ridden and sighing weakly beneath a heap of duvets on her sofa. But, in spite of it all, she’s managed to communicate that I should share Kyle‘s Raspberry Pi in-flight entertainment system with you. I made my own IN-FLIGHT entertainment system! ft. Raspberry Pi Corsair Ironclaw RGB…
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Playback your favourite records with Plynth
Reading Time: 2 minutesUse album artwork to trigger playback of your favourite music with Plynth, the Raspberry Pi–powered, camera-enhanced record stand. Plynth Demo This is “Plynth Demo” by Plynth on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Record playback with Plynth Plynth uses a Raspberry Pi and Pi Camera…
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Playback your favourite records with Plynth
Reading Time: 2 minutesUse album artwork to trigger playback of your favourite music with Plynth, the Raspberry Pi–powered, camera-enhanced record stand. Plynth Demo This is “Plynth Demo” by Plynth on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Record playback with Plynth Plynth uses a Raspberry Pi and Pi Camera…
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Playback your favourite records with Plynth
Reading Time: 2 minutesUse album artwork to trigger playback of your favourite music with Plynth, the Raspberry Pi–powered, camera-enhanced record stand. Plynth Demo This is “Plynth Demo” by Plynth on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Record playback with Plynth Plynth uses a Raspberry Pi and Pi Camera…
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Ghost hunting in schools with Raspberry Pi | Hello World #9
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn Hello World issue 9, out today, Elliott Hall and Tom Bowtell discuss The Digital Ghost Hunt: an immersive theatre and augmented reality experience that takes a narrative-driven approach in order to make digital education accessible. The Digital Ghost Hunt combines coding education, augmented reality, and live performance to create an immersive…
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Ghost hunting in schools with Raspberry Pi | Hello World #9
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn Hello World issue 9, out today, Elliott Hall and Tom Bowtell discuss The Digital Ghost Hunt: an immersive theatre and augmented reality experience that takes a narrative-driven approach in order to make digital education accessible. The Digital Ghost Hunt combines coding education, augmented reality, and live performance to create an immersive…
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Driverless cars run by Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesCould the future of driverless cars be shaped by Raspberry Pi? For undergraduate researchers at the University of Cambridge, the answer is a resounding yes! Can cars talk to each other? A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly can improve overall traffic flow by at least 35…
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Retrofit a handheld Casio portable TV with a Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat do we say to the god of outdated tech? Not today! Revive an old portable television with a Raspberry Pi 3! Pocket televisions In the late 1980s, when I was a gadget-savvy kid, my mother bought me a pocket TV as a joint Christmas and birthday present. The TV’s image clarity…
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Quick Fix — a vending machine for likes and followers
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes we come across a project that just scores a perfect 10 on all fronts. This is one of them: an art installation using Raspberry Pi that has something interesting to say, does it elegantly, and is implemented beautifully (nothing presses our buttons like a make that’s got a professionally glossy finish…
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HeaterMeter, the open-source barbecue controller
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe spent the weekend knee-deep in marinade. (Top tip: if you’re brining something big, like a particularly plump chicken, buy a cheap kitchen bin. The depth makes it much easier than juggling near-overflowing buckets. And when you’re finished, you have a spare bin.) If you’re a serious barbecue jockey, you’ll want to…
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Toilet Tracker: automated poo-spotting, no cameras
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt might be that I am unusually particular here, but there is nothing (absolutely NOTHING) that upsets me more than dirty toilets. Yes, I know this is the epitome of a pampered-person’s phobia. But I have nightmares — honest, actual, recurring nightmares — about horrible toilets, and I’ll plan my day around…
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Penguin Watch — Pi Zeros and Camera Modules in the Antarctic
Reading Time: 2 minutesLong-time readers will remember Penguin Lifelines, one of our very favourite projects from back in the mists of time (which is to say 2014 — we have short memories around here). Click on penguins for fun and conservation Penguin Lifelines was a programme run by the Zoological Society of London, crowdsourcing the tracking…
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Motion-controlled water fountain…for cats!
Reading Time: 2 minutesTired of the constant trickle of your cat’s water fountain? Set up motion detection and put your cat in control. Cats are fickle My cat, Jimmy, loves drinking from running water. Or from the sink. Or from whatever glass I am currently using. Basically, my cat loves drinking out of anything that…
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Build your own animatronic GLaDOS
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 11 years since Steam’s Orange Box came out, which is probably making you feel really elderly. Portal was the highlight of the game bundle for me — cue giant argument in the comments — and it still holds up brilliantly. It’s even in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection; there’s nothing…
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Play musical chairs with Marvel’s Avengers
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou read that title correctly. I played musical chairs against the Avengers in AR Planning on teaching a 12 week class on mixed reality development starting in June. Apply if interested – http://bit.ly/3016EdH Playing with the Avengers Abhishek Singh recently shared his latest Unity creation on Reddit. And when Simon, Righteous Keeper…
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Video call with a Raspberry Pi and Google Duo
Reading Time: 3 minutesUse Google Duo and a Raspberry Pi to build a video doorbell for your home so you can always be there to answer your door, even when you’re not actually there to answer your door. “Martin Mander builds a good build,” I reply to Liz Upton as she shares this project, Martin’s…
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Make a retro console with RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi — part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutesHere’s part two of Lucy Hattersley’s wonderful retro games console tutorial. Part 1 of the tutorial lives here, for those of you who missed it. Choose the network locale RetroPie boots into EmulationStation, which is your starter interface. It’s currently displaying just the one option, RetroPie, which is used to set up…
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Make a retro console with RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi — part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutesDiscover classic gaming on the Raspberry Pi and play homebrew ROMs, with this two-part tutorial from The MagPi Editor Lucy Hattersley. Raspberry Pi retro games console Turning a Raspberry Pi device into a retro games console is a fun project, and it’s one of the first things many a new Pi owner…
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Portable retro CTR game console: the one-thumb entertainment system
Reading Time: 3 minutesOTES is the one-thumb entertainment system that, unsurprisingly, requires only one thumb to play. One-Thumb Entertainment System Uploaded by gocivici on 2019-04-29. Retro handheld gaming Straight out the bat, I have to admit that had this existed in the 80s, it would have been all I played with. OTES oozes gaming nostalgia,…
