Gourdan: the Eye Following Jack-O-Lantern #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Braden Sunwold of Bare Naked Embedded made this awesome Jack-O-Lantern prop. A creepy but cool addition to any Halloween scene, the prop includes our Adafruit Animated Eyes Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

When my brother in law was a kid, he loved decorating the yard for Halloween. Since recently buying their first home, he wants to one day turn it into a Halloween attraction for people all over the city. When I heard this, the maker in me couldn’t resist getting involved. After all, Halloween is prime time for people like us, providing an excuse to spend money on new toys and tools. After scrolling for inspiration on Adafruit, I came across these LCD eyes and knew I wanted make some sort of eye following Halloween prop. And thus, Gourdan was born.

Read the full project on Braden’s blog.

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Trio of Performing Jack-o’-Lanterns #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Using projection onto some 3D printed forms, DIY Machines made this delightful signing setup. Passing trick or treaters can select a song, scare or story from the pumpkin heads.

These three singing squashes are driven by a RaspberryPi and low-cost projector. Your guests pick either a song, scare or haunting tale using the 3D printed control panel and its illuminated arcade buttons. This is housed securely alongside a waterproof speaker and all stands at the end of your drive/garden. This keeps the mains electricity and your projector safely indoors.

See the full details!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween!

Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter— (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip!

Get inspired with the Halloween Gift Guide

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Trio of Performing Jack-o’-Lanterns #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Using projection onto some 3D printed forms, DIY Machines made this delightful signing setup. Passing trick or treaters can select a song, scare or story from the pumpkin heads.

These three singing squashes are driven by a RaspberryPi and low-cost projector. Your guests pick either a song, scare or haunting tale using the 3D printed control panel and its illuminated arcade buttons. This is housed securely alongside a waterproof speaker and all stands at the end of your drive/garden. This keeps the mains electricity and your projector safely indoors.

See the full details!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween!

Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter— (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip!

Get inspired with the Halloween Gift Guide

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A DIY Raspberry Pi Smart Phone @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

The answer is yes, you can make a functional DIY smart phone powered by a Raspberry Pi. Here’s more from Hackaday:

[asherdundas], the phone’s creator, actually found a prior build based around the Raspberry Pi before starting this one. The problem was that it was built nearly a decade ago, and hadn’t been updated since. This build brings some modernization to the antiquated Pi phone, and starts with a 3D printed case. It also houses a touchscreen and a GSM antenna to connect to the cell network. With some other odds and ends, like a speaker and microphone, plus a battery and the software to tie it all together, a modern functional Raspberry Pi phone was created, with some extra details available on the project page.

The phone has the expected features — including calling, texting, and even a camera. A small WiFi USB dongle allows it to connect to the Internet too, allowing it to do all of the internet browsing a modern smartphone might want to do. The only thing that it might be pretty difficult to do is install Android apps, and although there are ways to get Android apps working in Linux, it’s not always strictly necessary to have this functionality.

See project!

Raspberry Pi Store Pop Up Today and Tomorrow in London #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

At the beginning of this month the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the dates of the last store pop up of the year, which happens to be today and tomorrow. You’ll find the shop inside Sook at 58 Oxford Street, London. Hope the humans who can make it have a ton of fun!

As well as an exquisite selection of T-shirts, stickers, and some of the best books from the Raspberry Pi Press store, we will have some brand new official merchandise on sale for the first time. Six new items, to be exact. So if you’d like to be one of the first people ever to own one of our brand new mugs, water bottles, pin badges, pens, notebooks, or travel mugs, come and see us in London.

Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB, 4GB, and 8GB) will be in stock at the pop-up. Please be aware that we’re limiting Raspberry Pi 4 to one of these computers per person.

Read more here

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Face-Following Carousel @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Super handy project from Pete Warden up on Hackster.io. I totally relate to the story behind the project as well — this could be so great for things like watching recipe videos while moving around in the kitchen. The tutorial also points to our Adafruit Learn System Guide Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico and CircuitPython by Kattni – thanks for the shout out!

When I’m cooking or cleaning I’ll often watch shows on my tablet, but I’ll be moving around the kitchen and my hands are often full or dirty so I can’t keep the display in view easily. I have a similar problem at my desk, where I have a fan that I’d like to keep pointing at my face as I type. With those situations in mind, I decided to create a stand that you can place an object on, and it will always rotate to face you. This project guide shows you how you can build one too, for around $50, with no soldering!

Read more

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leaf separator for 40mm drain #3DThursday #3DPrinting

MassassiOrder shares:

Needed a leaf separator for my ACD Greenhouse drain. There are two gutters on each side with a 40mm drain to my water storage. But all the leafs will fall trough it. So I made this separator that fits in the drain/gutter.
You still need to clean the gutter, but no leafs will go in to the water storage any more.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5447154

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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!

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Mini Weather Station(WeMos D1 Mini/ESP #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Tokyo_Bird shares:

This project is the production of a mini size weather station of about 45mm x 45mm x 50mm using WeMos D1 Mini (ESP8266).
I am using the OpenWeather API to get weather data.
It also measures indoor real-time temperature and humidity using DHT22 (or DHT11).

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5447324

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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!

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Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

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Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

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Fix t-nut in 2020 profile #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Curimind shares:

This part encapsulate a t-nut so that the t-nut will not come loose by mistake. However the ability to easily remove the t-nut will be lost.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5465189

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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!

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

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Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

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Coaster Pallet #3DThursday #3DPrinting

FSD_3D_Printing shares:

unique design for a coaster love the look one print

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5467937

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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!

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:

Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:

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Rgb Double Helix Dna Lamp #3DThursday #3DPrinting

INVESTEGATE shares:

remix for this project: https://ift.tt/IS0Zb6x

I have add a USB-Micro PCB Socket, because I wanted to save myself the cost of an extra power supply. You can buy the Sockets very cheap everywere. Just look for “micro usb pcb”.

So you can use an old USB charger or connect it directly to a TV or PC via USB.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5456155

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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!

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:

Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:

Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken

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Cute Skull Lamp #3DThursday #3DPrinting

rayjizza shares:

In preparation for the Halloween season, you can print your own cute skull lamp army, i looks awesome printed in Prusament Galaxy black and White pearl, but you can use any different filament color, the see through filaments make cool light effects.

download the files on: https://www.printables.com/model/40977-cute-skull-lamp

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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!

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit

Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

3D Printing Projects Playlist:

3D Hangout Show Playlist:

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:

Timelapse Tuesday Playlist:

Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media:

Noe’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/ecken

Pedro’s Twitter / Instagram: http://instagram.com/videopixil

Connecting Art and Advertising #ArtTuesday

Art and advertising have been intertwined for a long time. However, the world of art is much different from the world of advertising. NPR shares how The Los Angeles County Museum of Art makes you question what is considered art and why.

The LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) show is called Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising. Curator Rebecca Morse says the reconfiguration started in the 1970s, when “contemporary art photography had developed suffocating parameters.” It had to be black and white, had to measure 8×10, “and anything else wasn’t considered art.” To break those barriers, they took real ads from magazines and billboards, re-photographed and manipulated them, and got them into galleries and museums. Why? “To get viewers to look at them more critically than you would if you were just flipping through Vogue.”

Read more.

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A Better Museum Experience for Color-Blind Visitors #ArtTuesday

The Dallas Museum is offering visitors with Color Vision Deficiency lenses that can help many see a broader spectrum of colors.

Via Hyperallergic:

The technology, which alleviates red-green CVD for about four out of five users with the condition, was developed by EnChroma, an independent company based in Berkeley, California. Usually genetic, red-green CVD is caused by an overlap in the red and green color receptor cones within the eye, causing the hues to become practically indistinguishable. The lenses now provided by the DMA increase the contrast between red and green color signals for users with the cone overlap, enabling them to view the world with a more enriched color field.

Learn more!

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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!

3D Hangouts This Week with @ecken @videopixil

Oh Hi! We’ll be doing this week’s livestream as usual. Starts this Wednesday, Oct 26 at 11am ET. Hope to see folks in the discord chat!👻🎃🐭

This week @adafruit we’re 3D printing neon signs for Halloween! Prototyping a Disney magic band reader in CircuitPython. Timelapse this week features a Mickey Pumpkin.

YouTube Project Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POytmejpGzI

Learn Guide
https://learn.adafruit.com/halloween-neon-led-signs/

Flexible Neon NeoPixel Strips
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4310

QT Py RP2040
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4900

Small PermaProto
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1214

3D Parts Library on GitHub –
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts

Layer by Layer CAD Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVsMp6nKnpjsXSQ45nxfORb

Timelapse Tuesday

Mouse Jack-O-Lantern By mwafler
https://youtu.be/rNfeLV9phbQ
https://www.printables.com/model/297357-mr-mouse-pumpkin-jack-o-lantern

Community Makes:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5584482 lightsaber remix
https://www.printables.com/model/7260-raspberry-pi-zero-stand/comments/439451

Allison Horst Makes Data Science Illustrations #ArtTuesday

Alright, we’re totally smitten with Allison Horst’s absolutely adorable Data Science Illustrations. The illustrations cover Linear Regressions Dragons, Hierarchical Clustering, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Lowndes Quarto Keynote, Tiny Data and more! via Flowing Data

Check them all out here

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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!

How a deteriorating Paul Bunyan giant is restored #ArtTuesday @ArtInsider

Joel Baker is the owner of American Giants, a company that finds and restores 1960s International Fiberglass giants. Recently insider.com posted how the team restores a Paul Bunyan muffler man.

Muffler men were large 20-foot advertising giants made in the early ‘60s by the International Fiber Glass Company. They were made to bring attention to businesses.

This particular muffler man was buried in the back of an old camping ground in Wisconsin and is estimated to be a 1964 model. When Baker first saw the figure, he noticed it had fallen forward, landing on its hands, which pushed its shoulders out and cracked them.

Once fully refurbished, the giant is taken to a location where it’ll be installed. The team takes a moment to admire their work. “[We] take time to appreciate all of our hard work in bringing another one of these giants back to life,” Joel Baker said.

See the video below (and More YouTube Channel videos) and more in the Twitter thread here.

How a deteriorating Paul Bunyan giant is restored pic.twitter.com/BbU6mXpvze

— Insider Life (@InsiderLife) October 7, 2022

Is Bowser Too Overpowered?! Mario Movie Diorama

This Mario Movie diorama from Boylei Hobby Time on YouTube is super impressive. The maker uses these 130mm 3V LED Filaments, which are similar to the n00ds we are currently stocking!

Like many of you, I watched the Mario Movie trailer last week. The opening sequence is more action packed and beautiful looking than I expected it to be. Bowser demolishing the castle seems a little overpowered, but it was quite impressive and looked like it would make a fun diorama.

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Give Your 12′ Skeleton a Turning Neck #ElectronicHalloween

If you’re one of those lucky folks with the space for a 12′ skeleton you should absolutely give it a turning neck. Use this Instructable from jamiep for help:

This Instructable will teach you how to make an animatronic rotating neck for your 12’ Home Depot Skeleton or 12’ Inferno Skeleton. This will allow your skelly to look around randomly anytime it is on. The motorized animatronic neck looks lifelike and will bring another level of wow-factor to your display! I designed this in Tinkercad to use as many off-the-shelf parts as possible. Enjoy!

Read more and see more on YouTube

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween!

Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, Discord, Instagram or Twitter— (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip!

Get inspired with the Halloween Gift Guide

If Rotoscoping Isn’t Animation, Nothing Is

Rotoscoping, developed by early 20th century animator Max Fleischer, is one of the earliest forms of animation used in cinema. The technique has been used to create so many classics – Cinderella, The Birds, Mary Poppins, and more. It is no longer the form du jour, and has not been widely popular for nearly a century, but it has re-entered the discourse due to Richard Linklater’s 2022 film Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, which the Academy rejected for inclusion in the category for Best Animated Film. Linklater and the film’s animation director Tommy Pallotta are not only feeling snubbed personally, but feel this rejection speaks to a larger issue — the Academy’s refusal to consider work made for adults in the Best Animated Film category, or consider films produced by smaller, independent studios (especially those that focus on 2-D animation). Vulture spoke to Linklater, who has appealed the Academy’s decision. They also explore the controversy’s larger implications in great detail.

For a quick history on rotoscoping in cinema itself, check out this post from intofilm.

Second, the “older 2-D animation methods” Pallotta describes date back to the earliest days of cartooning. A lot of early animation is actually indistinguishable from what we’d today call special effects superimposed onto live-action filmmaking. The rotoscope itself — a machine that allows animators to trace a projected silhouette of a live-action film — was invented by visionary animator Max Fleischer in 1915 and became a cornerstone in the history of the medium. To thumb your nose at rotoscoping and its place in the art form is to disregard Cab Calloway’s dancing in Fleischer’s Minnie the Moocher, the mind-tripping weirdness of Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings, and even Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — among literally thousands of other cartoons over the decades.

Read the full piece by Eric Vilas-Boas here on Vulture.

The Secret Optical Tool that Let you Draw like a Photo #Art #Tools

The Camera Lucida is an old tool that lets you copy what you are looking at. If you have seen the fascinating documentary Tim’s Vermeer, they make the argument that Vermeer may have used something similar.

Interesting connections between current AI images and the nature of art.

Video from Mathiew Stern showing off the tool and how it works.

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3D Modeling- How to Make a Halloween Pumpkin

via instructables

Need a Halloween activity that involves 3D modeling? We have the solution for you.
The objective of this project is to create a decorative piece with a festive halloween theme involving 3d modeling and problem solving. To the students we give the tools: a led and a caliper and thus they discovered the necessary measures in the execution of the project.

Learning objectives, skills and competences:

® Know a variety of strategies and tools to support creativity and innovation, using analysis criteria;

® Identify problems and/or solvable situations with the creation of 3D printable objects;

® Generate and record ideas, represent thoughts and develop work plans, identifying and using suitable digital technologies to work with traditions and festive themes.

How Fake Animals Are Made For Movies And TV

This video from Insider breaks down the serious technique and artistry at work when creating fake animals for on-screen use. The level of detail is astounding! It’s also cool to see how CGI comes in to enhance these props/models, adding to the overall effect.

When a movie or TV show wants to film an action that it never could with a real animal, special effects artists have to come up with a convincing fake version. Thanks to the special effects artists at MastersFX, “The Boys” season three created several infamous scenes involving octopi and hamsters. Many instances, like in “Nightmare Alley” (2021) and “The Love Guru” (2008), involve scenes that switch between a real animal and a fake version for moments that wouldn’t be safe for a real animal to do.

STRANGERS Race RC CARS over the internet! #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

YouTuber Ollie Q made an epic online race with real rc cars. Its sort of like a Mario Kart Home Circuit with an online mode.

So this is me making some internet controllable RC cars that can be controlled from literally anywhere in the world, and not only that, I made two of them!

They also shared the project on Reddit:

I recently used RPi’s to host a first person video stream for people to race RC cars around my house from all over the world! I turn it on every now and then and you guys can race around my house, from your house!

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Open-Source Real-Time Metrics with Netdata on Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Netdata offers open-source means to collect real-time data such as CPU usage and disk activity. Here’s more from PiMyLifeUp:

Netdata is an open-source tool that you can use to collect real-time metrics. These metrics include details such as CPU usage, disk activity, and more.

By using Netdata on the Raspberry Pi, you can quickly see how the system is being utilized.

This software is designed to minimize its impact on its system, which is perfect for low-performance devices like the Pi.

Best of all, Netdata provides all the data it collects in an elegant interface with easy-to-read graphs. It even has support for displaying all of its data in real time.

Learn more!

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Raspberry Pi OS Versions #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

In this article Raspberry Tips breaks down all the Raspberry Pi OSs from Lite, Desktop, Full to Bullseye.

When I started using a Raspberry Pi, picking the correct operating system was straightforward. Raspbian was only available in 3 versions: Lite, Desktop, and Full. Now, when you go to the official website or open Raspberry Pi imager, there are more versions listed, so how do you pick one for yourself?

Read more

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Articulated Ancient Guardians #3DThursday

Crafty Sven shared on Printables.com

Articulated Ancient Guardians

No supports needed. Make sure that the bed is clean and the first layer adheres properly. It is a good torture test for print bed adhesion and filament retraction.

Good luck and happy printing ! ^-^

*Version 1.35 has improved legs so they adhere easier and make for an easy release from the bed platform. Attached g-codes are thoroughly tested and mastered for perfect results. The one for MK3S has a pause at the beginning, followed by an Easter egg.

Any comments and photos will make my day

Thx

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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!

Simple 3D-printed Halloween decorations @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Rad round-up from Raspberry Pi, just in the nick of time!

Everybody panic. There is only one weekend left before Halloween. [There are, in fact, TWO weekends left before Halloween, and we’re busy trying to calm Ash down right now – Ed.] You haven’t made anything scary or zeitgeisty to display. You are a disgrace to the maker and to the Halloween enthusiast communities. But don’t worry, we’re still friends, and what do friends do? They help each other. So here are a few super easy ideas to help you 3D-print your way out of a Halloween decor dearth.

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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!

Simple 3D-printed Halloween decorations @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Rad round-up from Raspberry Pi, just in the nick of time!

Everybody panic. There is only one weekend left before Halloween. [There are, in fact, TWO weekends left before Halloween, and we’re busy trying to calm Ash down right now – Ed.] You haven’t made anything scary or zeitgeisty to display. You are a disgrace to the maker and to the Halloween enthusiast communities. But don’t worry, we’re still friends, and what do friends do? They help each other. So here are a few super easy ideas to help you 3D-print your way out of a Halloween decor dearth.

Read more

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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!