Kategorie: Technology
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Two NEW Arduino Plug and Make Kit projects recreate iconic vintage games
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix of Arduino designers, engineers, and managers to sit down and brainstorm new projects to have fun with it? Well, at least one of them is guaranteed to come up with…
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Experience AI at UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week, we were honoured to attend UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week conference to present our free Experience AI resources and how they can help teachers demystify AI for their learners. The conference drew a worldwide audience in-person and online to hear about the work educators and policy makers are doing to support…
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This Strandbeest-style coffee table can deliver drinks
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten walking sculptures. Even after decades, they have an almost mythical allure thanks to the incredibly fluid way in which they walk. They’re clearly constructs, but with gaits that are almost organic. Inspired by his fellow Dutchman,…
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Meet Andrew Gregory: a new face in The MagPi
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is your history with making? A lot of people who get into making reckon that they used to take things apart and put them back together when they were kids. Whenever I tried doing that I got told off. Instead, whenever anything broke, it was my job to take it apart…
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ReComputer R1000 industrial grade edge IoT controller review
Reading Time: 2 minutesOut of the box it looks a bit like an unassuming full Raspberry Pi in a nice heat-sink case, albeit a fair bit chunkier. The size comes from the sheer number of features packed into the box – UPS modules, power-over-Ethernet, multiple RJ45 ports, 4G modules, LoRa capabilities, external antenna ports, SSD…
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Giving a teenage pet turtle a synthetic pizza-ordering voice
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of some degree of training. Training is really just taking advantage of an animal’s natural inclination to adapt for survival, which is something all living organisms do. With that in mind, YouTuber Bao’s Builds constructed a…
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Arduino CLI 1.0 is out!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are excited to share some incredible news with you all! We recently released the Arduino CLI version 1.0.0, marking a significant milestone for our software. This release is a big deal because it signifies the stabilization of the software API, bringing greater reliability and predictability to our users and developers leveraging…
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Experience AI expands to reach over 2 million students
Reading Time: 4 minutesTwo years ago, we announced Experience AI, a collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind to inspire the next generation of AI leaders. Today I am excited to announce that we are expanding the programme with the aim of reaching more than 2 million students over the next 3 years,…
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Thumby Color mini gaming device review
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe faster dual-core RP2350 processor running at 150Mhz enables Thumby Color to run an 0.85-inch 128×128px 16-bit backlit colour TFT LCD display inside an absolutely miniscule case measuring 51.6 × 30 × 11.6mm. The case has a hole through it enabling Thumby Color to double up as a keychain fob; enabling you…
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5 new Android features to help you explore, search for music and more5 new Android features to help you explore, search for music and moreDirector, Product Management
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew Android features help you explore with confidence — from using offline maps from your wrist to getting earthquake alerts in more locations.New Android features help you explore with confidence — from using offline maps from your wrist to getting earthquake alerts in more locations.Website: LINK
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Android Earthquake Alerts now available across the U.S.Android Earthquake Alerts now available across the U.S.Group Product Manager
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAndroid Earthquake Alerts is expanding to all 50 U.S. states, using phones to detect earthquakes and send early warnings to users.Android Earthquake Alerts is expanding to all 50 U.S. states, using phones to detect earthquakes and send early warnings to users.Website: LINK
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Join the UK Bebras Challenge 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UK Bebras Challenge, the nation’s largest computing competition, is back and open for entries from schools. This year’s challenge will be open for entries from 4–15 November. Last year, over 400,000 students from across the UK took part. Read on to learn how your school can get involved. What is UK…
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Welcoming HackSpace
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom our perspective, this gives us a bigger and better magazine. It also opens up a new aspect of making that we haven’t traditionally given as much thought to as HackSpace. While The MagPi magazine tends to focus heavily on Raspberry Pi products – it is “the Official Raspberry Pi magazine” after…
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on
Reading Time: 2 minutesMotion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical activity in, Iacopo Guarneri has developed a motion-capturing…
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This miniature monorail stays upright with the help of gyro stabilization
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost monorail systems, like the kind at Disney and in Las Vegas, stay upright because the “rail” is actually a very wide beam. The car’s load tires (often literal truck or trailer tires) roll on top of that beam and guide tires clamp the sides of the beam, preventing the car from…
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Pico 2 and RP2350 in The MagPi magazine #145
Reading Time: 3 minutesPico 2 & RP2350 It has faster processors, more memory, greater power efficiency, and industry-leading security features and you can choose between Arm and RISC-V cores. The new Pico 2 is an incredible microcontroller board and we’ve secured interviews with the Raspberry Pi engineering team. RP2350 Products out now Plenty of companies…
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Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful addition to your Arduino Cloud toolkit. …
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Bridging the gap from Scratch to Python: Introducing ‘Paint with Python’
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have developed an innovative activity to support young people as they transition from visual programming languages like Scratch to text-based programming languages like Python. This activity introduces a unique interface that empowers learners to easily interact with Python while they create a customised painting app. “The kids liked the self-paced learning,…
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Win! One of 20 Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 35% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. UK subscribers get three issues for just £10 and a FREE Raspberry Pi Pico W, then pay £30 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other Raspberry Pi…
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Storing ephemeral micropoetry on RFID cards for bite-sized readings
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of poetry from cover-to-cover over the course of a few sessions, the majority of people seem to prefer enjoying poetry in occasional little chunks. And unlike the epic poems of Greek antiquity, those tend…
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Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect
Reading Time: 2 minutesRobotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior embedded software engineer Dmitry Maslov shows how he was able to take this…
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Amassing a mobile Minion militia
Reading Time: 2 minutesChanneling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the public in local shopping malls. Building one minion robot is, in theory, pretty straightforward. That is especially true when, like these, that robot isn’t actually bipedal and instead rolls around on little wheels attached to the…
