Thor: Ragnarok is set to debut in November, and cosplayer/YouTuber Aerith Mon-Kishu will be ready with her costume of the film’s villain, Hela. One of the most notable features of the character’s ensemble is her massive headdress. Aerith is hard at work on crafting the antler-like look and filmed an overview showing the materials and tools she’s been using for the build. Watch it above.
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Thor: Ragnarok is set to debut in November, and cosplayer/YouTuber Aerith Mon-Kishu will be ready with her costume of the film’s villain, Hela. One of the most notable features of the character’s ensemble is her massive headdress. Aerith is hard at work on crafting the antler-like look and filmed an overview showing the materials and tools she’s been using for the build. Watch it above.
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As reported on NPR, Sony will begin pressing vinyl records again in early 2018.
Sony Music is preparing to make its own vinyl records again in Japan…The company says it’s installing record-cutting equipment and enlisting the help of older engineers who know how to reproduce the best sound.
This comes as a positive sign that the industry sees the obvious vinyl resurgence as long term. It will also offer potential relief to the labels, distributors and stores who have found that reluctance to invest in new pressing plants has resulted in tremendous manufacturing delays, as a handful of plants struggle to meet the demand, particularly at a busy production time like Record Store Day.
Anybody feeling inspired to make an addition to their own record collection should check out Adafruit’s debut vinyl release, Frequency, by Bartlebeats. Available now on stunning pink vinyl.
Here’s a beautiful costume prop pixie dust bag that’s easy to make! This new learning guide will teach you how. An update to the classic GEMMA-controlled NeoPixie Dust Bag, this one is powered by a Circuit Playground Express, using its NeoPixels for sparkling lights, and capacitive touch to change colors. Plus no soldering is required, and you can code it with the easy-to-use MakeCode graphical interface, right inside your browser.
All you’ll need is a Circuit Playground Express, batteries, a wire, some flake salt, and a beautiful, translucent bag.
You can code it with the friendly MakeCode interface.
Salt diffuses the light (the electronics are protected inside a plastic bag, don’t worry!) The wire loop acts as a carrying handle and an antenna for the capacitive touch. Just give it a squeeze to change the color pattern!
Here’s a beautiful costume prop pixie dust bag that’s easy to make! This new learning guide will teach you how. An update to the classic GEMMA-controlled NeoPixie Dust Bag, this one is powered by a Circuit Playground Express, using its NeoPixels for sparkling lights, and capacitive touch to change colors. Plus no soldering is required, and you can code it with the easy-to-use MakeCode graphical interface, right inside your browser.
All you’ll need is a Circuit Playground Express, batteries, a wire, some flake salt, and a beautiful, translucent bag.
You can code it with the friendly MakeCode interface.
Salt diffuses the light (the electronics are protected inside a plastic bag, don’t worry!) The wire loop acts as a carrying handle and an antenna for the capacitive touch. Just give it a squeeze to change the color pattern!
Gain a few extra seconds to click away from Facebook with this Boss Detector shared by Millerl1 on Instructables:
This is a simple but clever way to leverage Bluetooth radio signals as an early warning system for an approaching boss, sibling, parent, kid, spouse, surprise party recipient, or whomever. Once we’ve connected one or more LED’s to the Pi, figured out your target’s Bluetooth MAC address, and loaded some code I’ve written then you’ll be alerted to the target’s approach and proximity by the lights which blink faster the closer your target is.
Note also, that if you’d like to use the built-in LED on your Pi, you can skip all of the hardware and wiring requirements below.
This will work with any Raspberry Pi and can be easily ported to an Arduino or (if you;’re willing to give up the LED feature) any laptop or desktop computer.
For this tutorial I will focus on the Raspberry Pi version 2 model B.
Raspberry Pi won the MacRobert Award last night. The MacRobert Prize is the UK’s top engineering prize. Congrats!
The coding revolution marches on: Raspberry Pi wins UK’s top engineering innovation prize – Royal Academy of Engineering.
DIYODE Magazine – DIYODE Magazine.
Who is DIYODE Magazine?
Thanks for discovering DIYODE Magazine, the first new magazine supporting electronics enthusiasts and makers, that Australia has seen in 30 years!
DIYODE Magazine is a 100% Australian-made, independent publication, produced by a passionate editorial team. But it’s not about us. The magazine’s fundamental focus is to provide a valid platform to showcase the amazing creations and the hard work undertaken by the electronics and maker communities, to solve problems or to just make really awesome things!
DIYODE Magazine was created in response to a demand from within the community. We are committed to supporting those who support us, and for this reason we invite feedback, suggestions, ideas and comments from far and wide!
Our core values include education, providing real-world outcomes, and solving problems (both pesky and mammoth).
We got our first issue today (digital edition) – good to see an indie magazine in the AU doing electronics!
DIY Tech & Repairs shared this project on Youtube!
Create your own serial port adapter so you can monitor your inverters with RS232 ports!
Hacking on #InternetOfSeeds Mark II with my @Raspberry_Pi – here's a test live-stream of my cress. 0$ approach to creating an enclosure http://pic.twitter.com/hyujO6EuNV
— Alex Ellis (@alexellisuk) June 11, 2017
From alex ellis’ blog via raspberry pi pod:
In this guide I’ll show you how to build an Internet of Things (IoT) grow-box that will share the progress of your plants growing live on the internet via Twitter.
This is a perfect project for the summer holidays or for a weekend project for kids and adults too.
via Mr Pj Evans
A few years ago, I got a great Atari 2600 VCS job lot. Two consoles (a light-sixer and a Vader – now both composite modded) and a stack of games. Out of all the games only one appeared to be beyond repair. That cartridge, Activision’s F-14 Tomcat, was duly placed in the bits and bobs box until a project came to light for it.
Almost simultaneously, I came across the cart and a couple of 9-pin sub-D joystick ports. The brain, it ticked. And tocked. And finally came up with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Of course, an Atari 2600 in a cartridge! Why not? Why? Who cares.
via Mr Pj Evans
A few years ago, I got a great Atari 2600 VCS job lot. Two consoles (a light-sixer and a Vader – now both composite modded) and a stack of games. Out of all the games only one appeared to be beyond repair. That cartridge, Activision’s F-14 Tomcat, was duly placed in the bits and bobs box until a project came to light for it.
Almost simultaneously, I came across the cart and a couple of 9-pin sub-D joystick ports. The brain, it ticked. And tocked. And finally came up with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Of course, an Atari 2600 in a cartridge! Why not? Why? Who cares.
There are countless ways to find out the current weather, but then you only know the weather outside. What if you want to know the weather inside your house, inside a specific room? That’s what I attempt to resolve with this project.
Fanair uses multiple sensors to sense:
- temperature
- humidity
- light
- certain gasses
- air pressure
It is very compact and makes use of the Raspberry Pi 3 B, for getting the values, saving them in a MySQL database and then making them easily available on a website. Included in the code and website is the ability to get actual weather data for your location so that the website can be used to check outside weather as well.
Every convention on the calendar means more costumes to admire, and the recent HeroesCon featured a variety of cosplayers. YouTuber Beat Down Boogie was on the ground and captured dozens of those cosplayers on video. The seven minute round-up features an impressive Two Tubes from Rogue One, a Predator and Deadpool mash-up, a couple of different Wonder Womans, and even Captain EO.
via Fashionably Geek
Every convention on the calendar means more costumes to admire, and the recent HeroesCon featured a variety of cosplayers. YouTuber Beat Down Boogie was on the ground and captured dozens of those cosplayers on video. The seven minute round-up features an impressive Two Tubes from Rogue One, a Predator and Deadpool mash-up, a couple of different Wonder Womans, and even Captain EO.
via Fashionably Geek
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Chris Riebschlager and the Dimensional Innovations team came up with an over-sized build for the two-day Boulevardia music festival in Kansas City. They built an electric guitar for the event which weighs in at 500 pounds and is 12 feet in length.
It is made out of MDF and steel and the strings are comprised of 16-gauge wire. They used a Bare Conductive Touch Board to sense the plucking of the strings. The Touch Board then sends messages to a Raspberry Pi which decides which sound sample to play. They added arcade buttons on the side of the guitar to allow the playing of chords (the ability to play chords on the strings somewhat difficult due to the size of the thing!) You can see the guitar in action in the video below and read more and see more of the build over on medium.com.
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Chris Riebschlager and the Dimensional Innovations team came up with an over-sized build for the two-day Boulevardia music festival in Kansas City. They built an electric guitar for the event which weighs in at 500 pounds and is 12 feet in length.
It is made out of MDF and steel and the strings are comprised of 16-gauge wire. They used a Bare Conductive Touch Board to sense the plucking of the strings. The Touch Board then sends messages to a Raspberry Pi which decides which sound sample to play. They added arcade buttons on the side of the guitar to allow the playing of chords (the ability to play chords on the strings somewhat difficult due to the size of the thing!) You can see the guitar in action in the video below and read more and see more of the build over on medium.com.
From Cory Whitesell on Hackster.io:
I built a new home where water is a persistent problem. To mitigate the chances of a flooded basement, I needed a system to notify me in case of a sump pump failure or a power outage so I can react in time.
Because of the rural location of my home and spotty cell phone service, I could not rely on the push notifications from a home automation hub (because push notifications are not queued and are lost if your mobile data service is spotty).
So I built my own solution.
This solution uses a raspberry pi GPIO to monitor a pair of float switches. One switch is placed between the high and low water mark in your sump so that it toggles every time the sump fills and drains as the pump does it’s thing. The second switch is placed above the high water mark so that there’s an alarm if the water reaches a level where it is certain that power or pump has failed.
Here’s a great guide from our learn system by Phillip Burgess.
The Snake Eyes Bonnet is a Raspberry Pi accessory for driving two 128×128 pixel OLED or TFT LCD displays, and also provides four analog inputs for sensors.
It’s perfect for making cosplay masks, props, spooky sculptures for halloween, animatronics, robots…anything where you want to add a pair of animated eyes!
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eBooks are a great way for teachers, librarians, and others to share books, classroom materials, or other documents with students—provided you have ready and reliable access to broadband. But even if you have low or no connectivity, there’s an easy solution: Create an eBook server with the open source Calibre eBook management software running on a Raspberry Pi 3. Here’s how I did it—and you can, too.
First I downloaded the latest Raspbian Pixel image and installed it on a new 8GB microSD card. Then I inserted the microSD; connected a keyboard, mouse, and an old LCD TV with an HDMI cable; and booted the Pi. After adjusting the resolution of the Pixel environment on my monitor and connecting to the local network, I was ready to begin. I opened a terminal and entered sudo apt-get update to get the latest updates for the operating system.
From zolv on Instructables:
In a company where I work there is a kicker table. The company occupies many floors and for some of the employees it takes up to 3 minutes to get to the table and…to realize that the table is already occupied.
Therefore an idea arised to build a kind of simple reservation system with some status information available in real time.
Company uses Slack communication tool where every employee has an account. We have even a #kicker channel just for discussions about…kicker. The channel could be used as a kind of “entry point” for reservation and to be informed about current table’s status.
As usual, there were many concepts how to deal with such a system. But generally, one basic rule appeared in all of them: it has to be simple to use without any unimportant steps to perform to reserve and work with the system.
The device and the service are not sticked to the kicker table and can be used for any “common resource” (like ping-pong table, console, etc…) which needs some kind of reservation solution.
So, let’s get started…
Hello, in this instructable (sic) we will make a bike speed sensor. This will be controlled by a Raspberry Pi.
This speed sensor will detect how fast you go and display this on an LCD, remember how long you biked, how long you paused between biking and how far you have driven with your bike and display this on your website.
If you rely on the bus for your commute, check out this handy project from Eva Frohnhofer up on Hackster.io.
If you need to know when it’s the right time to go to the bus stop, just by looking up, then this is the project for you!
A Magnetic Vector generator of chimes. The MagPi No. 59 July 2027
This 4th of July we are celebrating American makers! Made in NYC is an initiative that supports a varied manufacturing sector in New York City! Via Made in NYC
Made In NYC’s mission is to support a vibrant manufacturing sector in New York City. Local manufacturing encourages entrepreneurship and innovation, creates employment opportunities for New York’s extraordinarily diverse workforce and gives the city much of its character and soul.
New York City is home to 5,700 small and medium manufacturers employing 78,000 people. They make everything from pianos (Steinway in Queens) and landing gear for spacecraft (Vahl in Brooklyn) to food, fashion, and furnishings which are the largest sectors within NYC manufacturing. What this incredibly diverse community has in common is a commitment to producing high-quality, high-value products, often customized to meet the needs of particular consumers.
In this project, we will be using a raspberry pi to control a servo that turns a cardboard dog’s head away whenever a person looks at the dog, to mimic a begging dog that doesn’t want to be seen begging.
pazu shares:
From the 3D printing side of things, this uses a cheap 5″ LCD from ebay with HDMI inputs and a Raspberry PI with a 3.5″ backpack – that part list below is just for the screen setup.
download the files on: http://ift.tt/2u4BKRu
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!
