Kategorie: Technology
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UNO R4 Stars: Meet Monica Rikic
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe launch of the Arduino UNO R4 marks a huge leap forward for our community. For us, it’s also the chance to celebrate the people who bring our ecosystem to life with their bright ideas, radiant enthusiasm, and shining insight. That is how the UNO R4 Stars blog post series began: to highlight makers who…
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Raspberry Pi-Controlled Automatic Phone Ring Killer
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I had designed a few other projects using Raspberry Pi, so I had extra Raspberry Pi’s laying around,” Barry explains. “[I] decided to put my extra Raspberry Pi 3B+ to good use as the +5 V power source [of the] automatic timer for the phone ring killer circuit.” In the lab We feel…
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Turning a Barbie dreamhouse into a screamhouse with the Arduino UNO R4
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith its bright color scheme and generally upbeat tone, the recently released Barbie movie evokes many of the same feelings as the toy brand. In keeping with this idea, Jaimie and Jay of the Wicked Makers YouTube channel decided to take it in the opposite direction by transforming a Barbie dollhouse into a haunted mansion for…
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Cosmic Unicorn (Pico W Aboard) review
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs with the Galactic Unicorn, it comes preloaded with Pimoroni’s own brand of Pico MicroPython firmware and an auto-running demo program that lets you press one of four tactile buttons to choose from four graphical effects: burning flames, eighties supercomputer (random pixels), cycling rainbow, and nostalgia computer prompt. Again, the Pico W…
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Flight tracker with weather
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I originally saw someone post a flight tracker using an Arduino but it only displayed overhead flights – when there were no planes, it was a blank screen,” Adam explains. “Myniceaccount posted his own project in the comments on Reddit and it included a clock and a flight tracker using Raspberry Pi,…
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Paragraphica camerica
Reading Time: 4 minutesSubterranean survival Now throw into the mix inspiration from a book entitled An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong), and Bjørn’s thinking gets even more fascinating. The book explores how animals perceive the world differently from humans, and a specific story about the star-nosed mole…
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Jumperless breadboard makes prototyping a breeze
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost makers start their initial electronics prototypes on a breadboard, which is great for quickly setting up temporary circuits. But forming the connections requires jumper wires and even a basic project quickly becomes a rats’ nest of wiring that is difficult to manage. Tracking down issues within that tangle of wires is…
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Introducing support for the new Nano ESP32 board in Arduino Cloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesGreat news for Arduino enthusiasts! The new Nano ESP32, just released on July 17th, is now officially supported by the Arduino Cloud. This powerful combo brings MicroPython and IoT capabilities right to your fingertips, simplifying all your smart devices projects. The Nano ESP32‘s native MicroPython support empowers you to code in Python…
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Arduino Cloud is ISO 27001 certified
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt Arduino, we embrace security as an integral part of the development lifecycle in order to provide secure hardware, software, and digital services to our customers. That’s why we are happy to announce that Arduino Cloud services are now certified for ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (ISO 27001). ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized standard…
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Custom vacuum controller facilitates the construction of vacuum tubes
Reading Time: 2 minutesVacuum tubes used to be the building blocks of computation and the drivers of screaming guitar amplifiers, but they’re rare today — so rare that there are virtually no manufacturers producing new units. If you shop for vacuum tubes, most of what you’ll find is either used or NOS (new old stock).…
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Adding a turbo readout to a vintage PC case
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are young, you may not remember the turbo buttons of the 1990s. These existed for backwards-compatibility with older games and software that wouldn’t run properly at the blazing-fast processor clock speeds of the time. The turbo button simply told the CPU to run at a slower clock speed that would…
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This Nicla Vision-based fire detector was trained entirely on synthetic data
Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to an ever-warming planet thanks to climate change and greatly increasing wildfire chances because of prolonged droughts, being able to quickly detect when a fire has broken out is vital for responding while it’s still in a containable stage. But one major hurdle to collecting machine learning model datasets on these…
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Magic office gadget encourages coworkers to solve problems
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether it’s budget issues, lack of time management, or simply not having any ideas for solving the issue at-hand, dealing with coworkers who bring up these problems is a pet-peeve of element14 Presents host Mark Donners. In response, he built a simple wall-mounted ornament consisting of a series of magic wands that prods coworkers to…
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Inky Frame 7.3″ review
Reading Time: 2 minutesOther than that, it’s very similar in design to the previous Inky Frame models, with a seven-colour e-ink display with five tactile user buttons underneath. It’s based around a standard Raspberry Pi Pico W board pre-soldered to the rear of the board, so you can connect it to a computer via USB…
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Using Raspberry Pi at home – a novelty for Rob
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile I’ve made many, many (many!) Raspberry Pi projects over the last decade or so for tutorials and such, I still get a little extra spark of joy when I’m making something outside of a work setting. Last month I wrote a guide on how to create some interactive streaming lights with…
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UNO R4 Stars: Meet Greta Galli
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe launch of the Arduino UNO R4 marks a huge leap forward for our community. For us, it’s also the chance to celebrate the people who bring our ecosystem to life with their bright ideas, radiant enthusiasm, and shining insight. That is how the UNO R4 Stars blog post series began: to highlight makers who…
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New backscatter technology promises cost-effective reliability
Reading Time: 2 minutesTraditional bi-directional wireless communication requires both a receiver and a transmitter at either end. Your laptop, for example, needs to receive a signal from your Wi-Fi router, but it also needs to transmit a signal back to that router. That transmission requires power proportional to the strength of the signal, which is…
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6 creativity apps for Android tablets6 creativity apps for Android tabletsDirector, Android Developer and Partner Relations
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSee how six different creativity apps, from photo editing to sketching apps, made the most of the extra screen space on Android tablets.See how six different creativity apps, from photo editing to sketching apps, made the most of the extra screen space on Android tablets.Website: LINK
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3 ways unknown tracker alerts on Android help keep you safe3 ways unknown tracker alerts on Android help keep you safeVP of Engineering
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnknown tracker alerts help keep you and your loved ones safe on Android with automatic alerts and manual scan.Unknown tracker alerts help keep you and your loved ones safe on Android with automatic alerts and manual scan.Website: LINK
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The four elements of our focus on impact
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation is to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. That’s what we say in our 2025 strategy. But how can we be sure we’re succeeding? Participants at a CoderDojo in England. In our strategy we also…
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The MagPi magazine issue #132
Reading Time: 3 minutesBuild a Universal Media Player Turn a Raspberry Pi computer into a low-cost, but high-powered media box. Our media is far more capable than shop-bought options and plays media from a huge range of sources. Read our detailed guide to cases, remote controls and setting up media player software. KitronikAn amazing Paragraphica…
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4 ways to do more with Google on Samsung’s latest devices4 ways to do more with Google on Samsung’s latest devicesSenior Director, Global Android Product Marketing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s how to get the most of Android on the new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Z Fold5, Galaxy Watch6 series and Galaxy Tab S9 series.Here’s how to get the most of Android on the new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Z Fold5, Galaxy Watch6 series and Galaxy Tab S9 series.Website: LINK
