These days ‘toy’ cameras are my go-tos, you can get great images and somehow the word ‘toy’ takes so much pressure off. Super into this build from Christopher Getschmann:
Can I build one? Let’s build one. The good thing here is that a lot of complex electronics stuff has become really accessible and easy to use. That’s the only reason why I am able to do these things as a software person. But the one thing that’s still a pain? Image sensors… You basically have to sign NDAs, order in bulk, sell your soul and still need to write your own drivers on top of that.
The only way to get access to any decent image sensor at all is to use the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.
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In reviewing Kenneth Branagh’s movie Thor, the A.O. Scott presented the following critical conundrum: if a movie aims at mediocrity and achieves it, is the movie a success? Famously (ish), Scott opined “This movie is not distinctively bad, it is axiomatically bad.” With all due respect to the make of the following project, we suggest that the same may be said of any attempt to create a robot whose exclusive purpose is to play beer pong. Here’s more from inconceivable42 via hackester.io:
In April of 2021 I was looking for a project to spend my ample amount of free time on. For some reason a beer pong playing robot popped into my head. At a high level I envisioned a robot that would use a camera to find cups and fire a ping pong ball at said cups. I decided a Raspberry Pi would be used as the “brain” and would handle the image processing. The Raspberry Pi would tell an Arduino how to orientate the firing mechanism. Having a 3D printer I planned to print a majority of the firing mechanism. Over the next year I would spend my time designing, testing, and redesigning various aspects of the robot in hopes of improving its accuracy. I am writing this to document all of the effort I put into to the project and in hopes of it helping someone else.
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StrangeEducation21 designed and shared this nameplate on thingiverse to help you keep track of…well, whatever you desire!
Handy inter-changeable nameplate for Raspberry Pi. It uses the USB ports to mount. Can be used for adding labels to denote the Pi’s Hostname, IP, MAC Address etc… anything really!
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I recently came across this paper which details the use of a Raspberry Pi for taking hemispheric photos of forest canopy and subsequently details a method for batch processing these images using ImageJ and R.
The idea of the system is so tree canopy can be monitored over a season or two to create a picture of how the canopy changes in relation to season, climate, etc.
This tutorial will take you through the process of setting up your Pi, building the enclosure, and conducting analysis of your photographed tree canopy.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
StrangeEducation21 designed and shared this nameplate on thingiverse to help you keep track of…well, whatever you desire!
Handy inter-changeable nameplate for Raspberry Pi. It uses the USB ports to mount. Can be used for adding labels to denote the Pi’s Hostname, IP, MAC Address etc… anything really!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
I never seem to have the right potentiometer knob for the job on-hand. I could keep a reserve of interesting knobs in my parts bin, but that takes space. Instead, I custom design the knobs, as needed. Here is another of my 3D knob print designs. It has a 35mm wide skirt surrounding the knob. The knob is designed to fit a 6mm potentiometer shaft and press fits.
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!
A case for a RaSCSI and Raspberry Pi Zero, with Snow White design language to perfectly fit vintage Apple Macintoshes.
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!
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!
I didn’t find a realistic NASA lettering. I moved the letters a bit to get a solid block.
Looks really nice in black letters on a white surface.
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!
This is my first project and luckily other contributors already completed a lot of the heavy lifting – a huge thanks to TurboDork for developing the 3D models for the NASA Chainmail Fabric and to tjwatson for developing a swappable tie coupling and knot system.
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!
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!
Here is my attempt at a portable dock setup for the Valve Steam Deck. I don’t have a deck yet, but as you can see from the pictures, I printed one to use for fit checks.
My goal was to make a small collapseable portable docking setup for propping the deck up when using it to watch videos and such on airplanes, or for at home to dock it for use on a bigger TV.
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!
This week @adafruit we’re making a portable sound box for bikes and scooters. Revisiting the Connection Machine build with the Raspberry Pi. Prototyping more RGB matrix cubes with the Raspberry Pi. The timelapse this week is a statue of Khonshu by Hickory Hill, stellar!
If you’ve ever experimented with MIDI, you’ll either adore or be infuriated by the way that you can tinker with everything. Sound-waves are really just applied mathematics, so
generations of geeks have poured their hearts and souls into the pursuit of the perfect wobbly tone.
This 3D-printed foot pedal for MIDI is relatively simple by comparison with a lot of MIDI projects. It entails just one 100K linear potentiometer, an Adafruit QT Py RP2040, some M3 fixings, and a USB-A to USB-C cable. That, and a beautifully designed and executed foot pedal chassis, designed by Adafruit’s Ruiz brothers. As always, the source files are available for anyone with space on their printer bed – in this case you’ll need at least 210 × 210 × 100 mm.
What could be more satisfying than building a whole computer, from scratch? You might think it’s impossible these days, but we’ve found a band of makers who are re-creating the clicky switches and flashing LEDs of a bygone age. Have a go yourself!
Design, sustainability and ethics with Jude Pullen
Add much-needed safety features to a cheap off-the-internet laser cutter
When designing a site or presentation be sure to Keep your color palettes looking sharp. Contrast is required for ledgability and Reasonable Colors is an open-source tool to take out the guesswork.
Despite having good intentions, designers and brands may still encounter blind spots when adapting their products and services to be more inclusive. Not accounting for the one in 12 men and one in 200 women around the world who deal with color vision deficiency could be one of them.
Fret not, because help is here. Matthew Howell of public-spirited design practice Reasonable Company has created ‘Reasonable Colors’, a suite of open-source colors aimed to help you mix and match accessible, high-contrast hues that are tasteful yet discernible by all eyes.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
On this episode of Uncle Jessy, he runs through 6 different ways you can attach 3D printed parts together.
He tries CA/Super Glue, UV resin, 3D printing pen, wood burner/soldering iron, 3D Gloop, and a plastic welding gun. While all of these methods have there place, in the end, his go-to adhesive remains 3D Gloop.
Reuben Margolin creates kinetic sculptures inspired by nature and math, he shared this video on Youtube!
A caterpillar with nine electric motors climbs a woodpile!
This is the first caterpillar I’ve made that can tackle variably curved terrain. Inside the caterpillar is a micro-controller holding a file with a quarter million angles. As the motors sequentially follow these angles, the caterpillar traverses the woodpile.
The woodpile is not as random as it looks, but follows a predetermined polynomial spline within bounds of certain convex and concave curvatures. It is made of scrap wood and took about week to make.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
Arcangelo Sassolino’s Diplomazija Astuta uses induction to liquify 400 pounds of steel daily, in a reference to a painting by the chiaroscuro master Caravaggio. Here’s more from ArtNet News:
“Induction is really magic,” Sassolino told Artnet News. “Through a magnetic field, it can turn steel from [room temperature] to 1500 degrees Celsius [2732 degrees Fahrenheit], which is the point which steel melts…When steel is melted, the energy is transformed into light,” Sassolino said. “There is darkness and then a moment of light, and then the return of darkness.”
A large metal armature stands inside the pavilion, concealing a computer-programmed system that feeds steel coils into the induction machine. The installation is inspired by Caravaggio’s altarpiece, The Beheading of St. John the Baptist (1608), at St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, and reflects the artist’s famed mastery of dramatic lighting.
We would be very happy if La Machine brought their kaiju-sized beasts to New York for an exhibition. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
The street theater group known as La Machine revived one of its legendary beasts for an ongoing show in Toulouse. “Long Ma,” an enormous dragon-horse hybrid weighing 45 tons and standing 11 meters tall, was originally unleashed in Beijing in 2014 and now joins a minotaur and gigantic spider for an ongoing exhibition at La Halle in the French city. Each day through May 8, a team of artists animates the mechanical creature, which can be seen trotting, galloping, and rearing upward through the streets while she greets her similarly massive companions.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
The exhibition Digital Descending comprises video installations, sculptures, a computer game and the brand-new major work DOKU – 6 Realms of Reincarnation. The exhibition takes the form of a vast, flashing, hyper-stimulating techno-world in which a twenty-five metre alien – an inflatable head with Lu Yang’s face and hair like tentacles – spreads out as if in a huge gaming mothership to lead us into the world created by the artist. A fictional, virtual parallel realm populated by monsters, gods, demons, superheroes, manga characters and not least Lu Yang’s own genderless avatar that zaps across times and places within a teeming video game-like universe.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
Making a fully TIG Welded Stainless Steel Scultpure.
Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!
The transputer chips designed in the early 1980s were and still are odd beasts. It has hardware support for processes (hence OS in hardware, well, sort of), and its assembly language is such a pain that Occam is a much better way to program it. It’s a language that is close to the hardware and allows parallel processing to be built in at a basic level. They have four fast (for the time) 10mbps (20mbps later) links that are used to communicate between devices and other systems.
The only real downside is that the chips were expensive, so they never really made it into common usage in embedded applications. Quite a few parallel processing systems using transputers were made, though.
The Black Rock Blog looks into interfacing and emulating Transputers using the RP2040 chip on the Raspberry Pi Pico:
While I was looking at the RP2040, it suddenly occurred to me that the four links on a transputer could be implemented using the eight PIO state machine son an RP2040. Each state machine handles data in one direction, leaving the processor(s) free for other work. What other work? Well, how about running an emulator of a transputer on the core? That would give you a hardware emulation of a transputer.
Here’s a project that will let you install a free DX7 synth emulator on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s more from Floyd Steinberg:
MINIDEXED is a superb implementation of 8 instances of DEXED, the free DX7 emulator, on a “bare metal” Raspberry PI. Think of a TX816 in mini format. In this video, I walk through the installation, setup and navigating the menu.
Zach Freedman has designed a really cool grid-based storage system that you can 3D print.
Zach never does anything half-way and that is the case here. He designed and printed all sorts of bins, trays, tool holders, racks. It’s a pretty complete workbench storage system that you can easily customize for your own needs.
As if a water leak wasn’t already a headache, a lot of insurance policies don’t cover the damage. Save some stress with this leak detector from Suhas Deshpande on Courier:
When I realized there was a leak in my home, I knew it was time to put my expertise to work. I needed to call on my years of experience and passion for my job – as a software engineer? While at first glance, it may appear that a plumber would have been a better option, my argument is that there is a step to be taken before a plumber is even involved to fix a leak. And that is to detect the leak when it first happens.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Here’s a fun project from Joerg Schultz that will help train your pooch! Here’s more via hackster.io:
How can I train my dog to stay on its mat, even when I am not in the same room? Typical feeders can treat after a given time, but they don’t know whether the dog is still on its mat or left to go somewhere else (like excitedly greeting a scared visitor :-). Here, I address this challenge using Machine Learning based Image classification. I (transfer) trained a neural network using Edge Impulse to distinguish an image of a dog on a mat from one with an empty mat…. I deployed the model on a Rasberry Pi. Finally I connected the RasPi via BueTooth to an Android App, which then can trigger a feeder. Now my dog is reinforced for staying on its mat and reinforcement stops when he leaves. All without me being present. On the long run system like this can address typical behaviuor problems like reacting to the door bell, over-exitedly greeting visitors or barking at passer-bys relying completely on positive reinforcement.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Play Doom on Raspberry Pi Pico thanks to kilograham on GitHub.io, via YouTube:
This post is split into a number of distinct sections which are hopefully largely independent, so you can pick and choose the ones that interest you. In some cases a part may assume you have some knowledge from another part, but if so you can always go off and read that. The ordering of parts is somewhat arbitrary and based on my guess of what people might find most interesting/unique.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Here’s a great retro gaming project that runs on Raspberry Pi. Here’s more from Arnov Sharma via hackster.io:
The goal for making this project was to make a low-cost game console like a Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck that can run most retro games…Old DOOM, WOLFENSTEIN, Pokemon Games Etc.
This console has more than 40 games preloaded on it. also, we can add any game on this console. for example, I’ve loaded dragon ball advance adventure on this game console through WINSCP or by manually transferring ROM File on the memory card. (will explain more about this process later in the post).
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Rad project from Ensar Karabudak up on Hackster.io.
Digital signage is a sub-category of electronic signage that use a variety of technologies such as LCD, LED, and others to deliver messages and ads to the general public for marketing and informational reasons. A content, a system that organizes, plans, and communicates your content, a media player, and screens that display the content is all part of digital signage. They are used to offer exhibits, marketing, and outdoor advertising in public areas, museums, stadiums, hotels, restaurants, and corporate structures, among other places.
piSignage is the most popular and cost-effective digital signage platform that enables businesses to manage their network of panels and display centrally through cloud-based storage for the Raspberry Pi.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
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!
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!
This is a case design for a custom OpenWRT Router using a Raspberry Pi 4, a Noctua Fan and TP-Link 5 Port 1GB Switch.
Why didn’t I just buy a normal OpenWRT router capable router do you ask?
This is actually an OpenMPTCP router – an Open Source Multi Path TCP Router (OMR) – Which is used alongside a VPS to aggregate multiple WAN lines (ASDL, VDSL, ethernet WAN, 4G dongle) into 1 for increased broadband speeds… I live in area with shoddy broadband. I needed something with a little more CPU power, and the software doesn’t have a ‘non-beta’ version for routers just yet, so… hence – A Raspberry Pi router!
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!
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!
