8 Reasons to Upgrade to a Raspberry Pi 5, Project by Project #piday #raspberrypi

Not that anyone needs convincing but here are some compelling reasons to upgrade your setup with a Pi 5. You’ll still need to act quick to snag one but availability is up compared to the Pi 4 over the past years.

The beefier power lends to better gaming, machine learning, media streaming, and beyond!

Via Make Use Of:

With a far more capable processor and a bunch of extra features, the Raspberry Pi 5 offers far more power than previous models. Let’s take a look at reasons to upgrade to a Pi 5, project by project.

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Computron: A Raspberry Pi Parallel Computer Performs Mandelbrot Calculations @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

The Mandelbrot set is a fractal curve. On one level it is very simple, while on another it is highly complex. The image of the Mandelbrot set was poularized with the rise of chaos theory in the 1990s, as well as posters on an uncountable number of college dorm rooms. Arriving at the Mandelbrot set requires a great amount of computational power. The Computron, a parallel computer made with Raspberry Pi Picos, has the power to compute the Mandelbrot set. Here’s more from Ryan Kolm and Ignacio De Jesus Romo Jimenez:

For our final project, we built Computron, a parallel computer consisting of Raspberry Pi Picos that communicate over a I2C bus. To demonstrate the power of parallel computation among these devices, the Mandelbrot set is computed across Picos. Every Pico computes a portion of the set, while one is also responsible for projecting the set onto a VGA monitor. This projection unit is special, in that it is the only peripheral device on the I2C bus while every other Pico is an I2C controller. We were able to configure the projection unit to dynamically recognize the number of controllers on the network prior to computation, and to distribute work accordingly without a user informing the network directly. In the end, with eight Picos connected together we were able to achieve about a four-times speedup in computation of the Mandelbrot set compared to computation on a single Pico.

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Step into this Musical Cocoonan all-encompassing and transformative audiovisual art experience

Team Musical Cocoon: Zora Che, Hana Chitsaz shared their immersive symbol of transformation over on Hackster.io:

Great music is a window into the sublime. We created Musical Cocoon, an all-encompassing and transformative audiovisual art experience. We built an enclosed “cocoon” to symbolize transformation. A user may pick any song they desire to experience. Inside the cocoon, the viewer’s inputted song is synchronized to lights embedded inside, and the cocoon twists as music climaxes.

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CL-PIGPIO: a Common Lisp interface to the Raspberry Pi pigpio library

pigpio is a C library for the Raspberry which allows control of the General Purpose Input Outputs (GPIO) including hardware devices, like SPI, I2C, and Serial.

pigpio has 1) a direct hardware version (linking with libpigpio.so) that requires the program using it to run as root; and 2) a pigpiod daemon (linked with libpigpiod_if2.so) that allows user-land programs to accesss hardware via network calls to the daemon.

CL-PIGPIO links with both libraries, and allows the user to select whether the hardware or the daemon form is called. If the hardware version is activated but the user’s program is not running with root privileges, an error is generated.

Note pigpio does not work for RPi5 (yet?) because hardware interface is not documented.

See more on GitHub and documentation on pigpio here with a list of other language interfaces.

Art Inspired by the Cosmos #ArtTuesday

A group exhibition at Paradigm Gallery + Studio brings together 18 artists whose work is inspired by the cosmos. Stars, nebulae, gas giants, and more can be found in this lovely exhibition. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

Curated by Colossal’s founder and publisher Christopher Jobson, Lone Splendor draws its name from John Keats’ poem “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” and conjures our enduring fascination with the cosmos and imagined worlds. The exhibition features works in a variety of mediums and styles, including the dense, thread portraits of Danielle Clough, Hari & Deepti’s illuminated sculptures, and Lorraine Loots’ tiny recreation of the enormous Pillars of Creation.

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Edge Impulse Raspberry Pi 5 Santa Tracker #raspberrypi

Catch Santa with AI! Ish Ot Jr. got their new Pi 5 and wanted to test out Edge Impulse. No need to stay up all night, let AI let you know it saw Santa.

Edge Impulse Studio makes it really easy to build a dataset; with your Pi 5 all set up and the camera connected, you can use your browser on another computer, or the Pi itself (the Pi 5’s incredible performance finally makes this not just bearable, but trivial), by just pointing at the object, giving it a label, and hitting Start sampling under Data acquisition. In our case, we captured around 30 pictures of various Santas under the santa label, and 30 pictures of not-Santas under unknown.

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The Mailblocks: Physical Inbox for Virtual Alerts #piday #raspberrypi

Pick up your dopamine delivery at the Mailblocks. With this project you will only receive push notifications on your phone when you physically “pick them up.” A Pi acts as a router and blocks push notifications network-wide, only sending when your phone is put inside the mailbox.

From Guy Dupont on Hackaday.io:

I find myself easily distracted by push notifications, and Do Not

Disturb just isn’t sticky enough for me. After particularly screen-time-heavy night, I joked to my wife: “push notifications should be like regular mail – you should have to go somewhere to collect them. Once a day, max.”

Seemed like an experiment worth running.

See the full project guide!

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Using the DHT11 Sensor on the Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

The DHT22 is a basic, low-cost digital temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor to measure the surrounding air and spits out a digital signal on the data pin (no analog input pins needed). It’s fairly simple to use but requires careful timing to grab data. Here’s a guide on using the DHT22 with a Raspberry Pi, from Pi My Life Up:

You can even wire this sensor up to 20 meters away from your Pi without losing its signal. This allows you to track the humidity and temperature of areas without your Pi’s heat affecting its reading. It also means you can wire the sensor where you may not have power for the Raspberry Pi.

This humidity and temperature sensor is the cheaper version of the popular DHT22 sensor. The DHT11 has a worse temperature and humidity range while also sacrificing accuracy. It makes up for this by being a little bit cheaper, so if you have a use case where you don’t need accuracy and want to save some money, you can use the DHT11.

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 73: Raspberry Pi 5 Robotics @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 73 – Raspberry Pi 5 Robotics

You’ve got your hands on a Raspberry Pi 5 – now use the improved I/O capabilities and processing power of the Raspberry Pi 5 to build a robot that can (almost) think for itself.

• You too can design your own silicon chip – find out how!
• Turn a rotary phone into a personal assistant
• Personalise your PCBS with fancy silkscreen options in KiCAD
• Discover an eco-friendly alternative to epoxy resin
• Turn yet another old phone into a jukebox

Read more, download PDF, buy now, subscribe.

Free Pico W for subscribers and guaranteed Raspberry Pi 5 reservation

Vera Molnár, Pioneer of Computer Art #ArtTuesday #Computers #Art

Vera Molnár, a Hungarian-born artist who was a pioneer of computer art, has passed away at 99. Experimenting with algorithms, she began to employ the principles of computation in her work even before she gained access to an actual computer.

Her computer-aided paintings and drawings, which drew inspiration from geometric works by Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee, were eventually exhibited in major museums like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

She took her first step into the silicon age in 1968, when she got access to a computer at a university research laboratory in Paris. In the days when computers were generally reserved for scientific or military applications, it took a combination of gumption and ’60s idealism for an artist to attempt to gain access to a machine that was “very complicated and expensive,” she once said, adding, “They were selling calculation time in seconds.”

Making art on Apollo-era computers was anything but intuitive. Ms. Molnár had to learn early computer languages like Basic and Fortran and enter her data with punch cards, and she had to wait several days for the results, which were transferred to paper with a plotter printer.

Ms. Molnár acquired her first personal computer in 1980, allowing her to “work as I wanted and when I wanted. It was great to go to bed at night and hear the computer and the plotter working by themselves in the workshop.”

You can read more on Wikipedia and an article in the New York Times.

Elf on the shelf for grown-ups (make a robot do it) #Raspberrypi

Youtuber Kevin McAleer has a unique take on the Elf on the Shelf Christmas tradition, Via Raspberry pi

YouTuber Kevin McAleer decided the nouveau Christmas tradition Elf on the Shelf shouldn’t be reserved for kids and that he should be able to get in on the fun. He could not, however, be arsed to think of 24 unique ways to pose the elf around the house and wait for people to find it, so he enlisted a robot to track the mischievous stripy-tights-clad toy for him.

The Robot

The robot itself is a Viam Rover, an off-the shelf purchase featuring a 720p webcam with an integrated microphone, a 3D accelerometer, and two integrated motor encoders to drive its wheels. It’s designed to be powered by a Raspberry Pi 4, purchased separately.

Setting Up Duck DNS on Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

If you have a Raspberry Pi, and you’ve had a hankering for a dynamic DNS provider, Duck DNS might be fore you. It is a free and simple dynamic DNS provider that you can run right on your Raspberry Pi. Here’s more from PiMyLifeUp:

This service is excellent for those who don’t want to fork out money for their own domain name like you would with Cloudflare. The subdomains are all for the domain “duckdns.org“. So, if you used the subdomain “pimylifeup” the full address would end up being “pimylifeup.duckdns.org“.

The advantage of using a Dynamic DNS provider is having a domain name that continually points to your IP address. Most internet providers do not issue dedicated IP addresses, and when they do, it comes at an additional cost.

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Detecting Aircraft Spoofing With Fly-Catcher #piday #raspberrypi

Malicious hackers can spoof aircraft wreaking havoc on flight networks. I’m not sure how common ADS-B spoofing is but the repercussions could be devastation. Angelina Tsuboi created the Fly-Catcher for safer skies.

Hackers can easily spoof “ghost” aircraft into the sky. As a pilot and cybersecurity researcher, I developed a device called Fly Catcher to detect instances of aircraft spoofing on ADS-B 🛫. I also flew it on a plane over the coast of Los Angeles 🌴. Fly Catcher monitors the ADS-B 1090MHz frequency to detect spoofed aircraft by ground-based hackers using a custom neural network 📡. The device consists of a 1090MHz antenna, FlightAware SDR, and a Raspberry Pi, and scans nearby ADS-B messages and runs them through a neural network to detect fake aircraft transmitted by bad actors ⚡️.

See more on Hackster.io, GitHub, YouTube and Tom’s Hardware

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Turn Raspberry Pi into a Powerful 4G LTE Router #Raspberrypi

There are lots of places in the world without reliable access to broadband internet, NETVN82 used a Raspberry Pi to create a 4G LTE router. Via Thingiverse!

In this video, we will show you how to transform your Raspberry Pi into a powerful LTE 4G router. With the increasing need for fast and reliable internet connectivity, this project will allow you to create your own portable network wherever you go.

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Making a mini computer from scratch with Raspberry Pi and Linux #PiDay #RaspberryPi #Linux @popovicu94 @Raspberry_Pi

Uros Popovic writes about concepts for building a custom mini computer — a device running Linux with a hand-wired display + keyboard. All the software is built from scratch using Raspberry Pi as the hardware.

I’m using Raspberry Pi Zero for this guide. Things shouldn’t be much different with other Raspberry Pis, and actually, concepts should transfer well to pretty much any board you may be using for embedded Linux.

Read about the build in the post here.

The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks opens in London #Art #Space @_LightRoomLDN

Tom Hanks has co-wrote The Moonwalkers with Christopher Riley, the double BAFTA-nominated writer-director whose work includes many of the most groundbreaking films and television programmes about space for the likes of the BBC, Netflix, and PBS.

The show tells the stories of the Apollo missions, reflecting their gripping journeys at spectacular scale. Newly filmed interviews between Hanks and astronauts of the current Artemis program will grant an insight into the return of crewed surface missions to the moon.

Hanks himself will provide the voiceover, accompanied by a spectacular original score by Anne Nikitin whose previous work includes the Apple TV+ hit series HIJACK and the cult heist movie American Animals.

The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks runs from 6 December 2023 until 21 April 2024 at Lightroom, located in King’s Cross on Lewis Cubitt Square in London, UK

See the video trailer below and on the making of the music at Abbey Road Studios. Via X.

World map of illustrated animals #ArtTuesday

Wild world is the creation of Anton Thomas. The map shows 1,642 animals in their native region. Armed with colored pencils and inspired by a childhood passion for geography Thomas created a cartographic masterpiece.

Nice write up from the New York Times:

So Mr. Thomas set himself guidelines. Animals should be native to their location and neither domesticated nor extinct. The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants. Human-made borders do not feature. (In practice, this meant both names appear; the thylacine does not; and a Cantabrian brown bear supplanted the toro.)

Illustrated maps like Mr. Thomas’s are powerful in part because they mimic how the human brain perceives the world, said John Roman, an artist-cartographer in Boston and the author of “The Art of Illustrated Maps.”

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Explore more on AntonThomasArt.com, h/t flowing data

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Cover Art from the Age of New Wave Science Fiction #ArtTuesday

Hard science fiction often focuses on technological developments. Books like that tend to ask for covers that depict space ships, space stations, advanced weapons of war, that sort o thing. But what about new wave science fiction focusing on abstract ideas like The Female Man, or books that use computing as a metaphor like Neuromancer, or that explore the intersection of power, politics, and religion like Dune? Those books demand something different, which is why many science fiction covers, especially the New Wave covers of the 60s and 70s, tend toward the abstract. Here are some of the best, from Artspace:

Vintage science fiction books have a cult following, with collectors willing to empty their wallets for limited editions of rare titles. Why? In part, because their covers are just so damn good. In an age when most people read on e-readers and screens, tangible book covers—especially ones drawn by hand—are becoming a thing of the past. Here, we absolutely judge these books by their covers, highlighting some of our favorites from the sci-fi genre. So many of them, created decades ago, feel so stylistically relevant today, as figuration, airbrush, and surrealism are back in vogue. Maybe these books really did forecast the future!

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A pet robot who gets sleepy when petted #MicroPython @sozoraemon

@sozoraemon on X posts about a 3D printed robotic pet. When the touch sensor on top of the robots head is petted (senses multiple touches) the robot’s eyes start looking sleepy.

The project is built with a Raspberry Pi Pico W running MicroPython.

See more in the thread on X. (Japanese)

Tutorial: Electric Fireplace Teardown & Upgrades with WLED

Check out Erin St Blaine’s latest project: She has upgraded an electric fireplace to use programmable lights and WLED. These fancy LED fireplaces are appearing in homes all over the place. We’ve seen them at State Fairs and home shows, and they’re a great alternative to standard fireplaces, with heat and light built in. They’re efficient and beautiful, but not quite perfect — Erin found this one free in a neighbor’s driveway, having been thrown out because of a very obnoxious and uncontrollable BEEP sound.

This guide shows how to disable the beep, and also how to upgrade the lights inside with programmable lights that can be controlled with a smart phone or with the included remote control that shipped with the fireplace.

Full write-up: https://adafruit-playground.com/u/firepixie/pages/electric-fireplace-teardown-and-upgrade-with-wled

Water Your Plants with a Robot Dog #piday #raspberrypi

FREISA (Four-legged Robot Ensuring Intelligent Sprinkler Automation) uses a camera module to observe the surrounding environment and evaluate plants using AI. via Tom’s Hardware

Using a Raspberry Pi to make a robotic dog is nothing new but putting it to work is practically unheard of. The team behind this project created a robotic dog, known as FREISA, that uses AI to determine when a plant needs watering and helps the thirsty plant by activating its onboard sprinkler system. This project was created by a team that goes by B-AROL-O with members Davide Macario, Andrea Podo, Gianluca Teti, Gianpaolo Macario, Orso Eric, and Pietro d’Agostino.

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Bookworm Comes with Dark Mode #piday #raspberrypi

Bookworm is the newest version of Raspberry Pi OS. Since releasing a couple months ago the team has been working on tweaking and refining. An update announced on Wednesday brings bug fixes and a long wished for dark mode.

This update includes improved support for encrypted connections in WayVNC; the latest version of Thonny; Mathematica and Scratch 3 working on Raspberry Pi 5; and a bunch of other small bug fixes and tweaks. But we thought we’d give you a little pre-Christmas bonus in this release too…

Creating a dark theme can be relatively easy, or really hard, depending on how the colours have been defined in your original theme. If all your colours are defined as variables, it is relatively easy — but if all your colours are hard-coded values, then it is rather more time-consuming. And of course, in PiXflat, as in Adwaita before it, the colours were all hard-coded! So the first job was to go through 4500 lines of CSS and find all the hard-coded colours, replacing them with variables, and then setting those variables to the original hard-coded values so I didn’t break the original light theme.

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Star Trek Voyager Sound Box @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Scale models are great. And they’re even better with sound effects! Michael Horne used a Raspberry Pi to create a Star Trek sound box to augment a scale model of the USS Voyager. Here’s more from Raspberry Pi Pod:

A friend of mine volunteers for a non-profit organization called Models for Heroes which aims to give Armed Forces veterans a focus for their free time by helping them get into scale modelling. He also builds his own scale models and this time it’s a model of the USS Voyager from Star Trek. He asked for some help to give the project an extra “zing” by providing sound effects. I did some research and, to start with, I was going to use the Raspberry Pi Pico to do it. However, I wanted really good sound this time. My last project for Steff was to provide effects for a Lancaster Bomber model. This time, it was simpler but I wanted something that wouldn’t sound too strained when playing the Voyager main theme.

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X-rays reveal Raspberry Pi 5’s hidden secrets #Raspberrypi

Jeff Geerling x-rayed his Raspberry Pi 5 so you don’t have to. See more on Youtube!

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Art in the Parks Current Exhibitions : New York City #ArtTuesday

Find out which current exhibits are on display near you, via NYCgovparks.org

Through collaborations with a diverse group of arts organizations and artists, Parks bringsto the public both experimental and traditional art in many park locations. Please browse ourlist of current exhibits below, explore our archives of past exhibits or read more about the Art in the Parks Program.

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Toxic Art: Environmental Waste Transformed

In an American town devastated by toxic draining, a partnerships between university professors, conservationists, and artists, toxic waste is being transformed into pigments. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

In southeast Ohio, toxic drainage from abandoned coal mines has devastated streams and rivers. The acidic sludge, which is filled with heavy metals, leaches into waterways, destroying ecosystems and turning what should be clear, bluish waters into murky, rust-colored runs. In Athens, home of Ohio University, a Hocking River tributary known as Sunday Creek is a prime example of mining’s harmful effects, with more than two million pounds of iron oxide pouring into the stream each year  A new documentary directed by Jason Whalen visits the area and the team vowing to clean it up.

“Toxic Art” follows an unconventional pairing of two Ohio University professors who have teamed up on a project that turns sludge from the stream into pigments for oil paint. A project of the global conservation organization Rivers are Life, the short film shares the story of artist John Sabraw and Guy Riefler, the chair of the Civil Engineering department, who have spent six years developing pigments using iron oxide they collected from the creek.

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Tutorial: Build an Edge-Lit Acrylic Tavern Sign with IR Control and WLED

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: Build an edge-lit acrylic tavern sign for your space.

 

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/edge-lit-tavern-sign-with-wled-control-with-wifi-or-ir-remote/overview

Addressable NeoPixel LEDs light the sign with hundreds of open-source animations you can choose from. Adafruit’s Feather ESP32 V2 works seamlessly with the free and open-source WLED software. Control the lights from your phone or from an IR remote.

From the guide:

Adventurers, friends, and companions will feel welcome in your space when they see this custom glowing tavern sign, lit from inside with a fiery glow. Program different animation modes to suit your mood with just a few taps on your phone, or control the colors and animations with an infrared remote. This project will transform your home bar or game room into a delightful warm refuge for weary travelers. Tankards not included.

Difficulty

This is an intermediate level project. Skills needed:

• Soldering +2
• Coding +0
• Woodworking +3

Guilloché patterns: spirograph with a laser

A guilloché pattern is a decorative technique that involves mechanically engraving a repetitive pattern into a material. The space can then be used to add decorations or ornaments. To a certain generation they appear like drawings from a spirograph.

Ed Nisley has been cutting Guilloché patterns in materials and has looked to do it on compact disks.

So the overall workflow involves generating an SVG image, importing it into LightBurn with those layers set up with the appropriate cut parameters, using the Three-Point Circle Center Finder tool to align the pattern with the CD, then Fire The Laser. Alignment stops on the laser platform eliminate the need to realign every pattern, so it boils down to running the generator script enough times, importing a batch of patterns, then snapping each one into place and cutting it.

They’re kinda pretty, in the usual techie way.

Read more in the post here. The GCMC source code and Bash driver script as a GitHub Gist.

 

Raspberry Pi hints at new products in 2024 #RaspberryPi @hacksterio

On the heels of the Raspberry 5 announcement several weeks ago, Eben Upton hints at an RP2040 successor and promises a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 in 2024. Upton is quoted as saying:

“We know what people don’t like about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted at the event, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], could have more RAM, could have more GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output], and we know what people do like — the PIO [Programmable Input/Output blocks]… and we have a chip team.”

While Upton stopped short of announcing an actual successor product, it’s clear the company is at least thinking about what comes after the RP2040. No release date for a new chip nor a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 to showcase it were discussed, but Upton did go on to confirm that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 system-on-module is design-complete and scheduled for launch in 2024 — bringing with it “a high degree of commonality” with the Compute Module 4 and “USB 3.0 where some of the MIPI lane[s] used to be.”

Read more on hackster.io.

I Made a Night Vision Camera Using a Raspberry Pi

John’s Reviews and More shared this video on Youtube!

This is a Night Vision Camera I Made, If you want to make it yourself I have the links to the stuff you will need

Make Your Own Raspberry Pi 4 Photobooth!

element14 presents shared this video on Youtube

Although we mostly rely on smartphones to take photos, portable Photo Booths are a convenient alternative at events like parties and weddings. Building one from scratch in 2019 is easier than ever, particularly using a Raspberry Pi board and camera, along with a Touchscreen Display. In this video, we go over the steps on how to assemble the hardware and setup the software to run a Pi-powered Photo Booth for taking selfies with your besties at the next gathering! http://bit.ly/2S2hRZH

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Tomy Ominbot 2000 Restored with Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi

Bring your favorite 80s bots back to life with the help of Raspberry Pi. Matt Vella points shared this project on hackster.io:

From Star Wars to Short Circuit, Go-bots to Transformers – the 1980s was a time in pop culture where people thought a lot about how robots might exist alongside us in the future.

Let’s bring the Omnibot 2000 closer to the home robot vision that many had (and still have) by bringing in new technology and rename it the Omnibot MAIV (Modernized with AI and Viam).

See the guide and more details from Jeremy Cook on Hackster.io

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Bringing Back a Wii U with a Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Word on the street is that some Nintendo Wii U systems are having mysterious failures. When error codes are found in the wild, community members often come up with solutions. Here’s a hack to help resurrect your otherwise bricked Wii U from [Voultar] via hackaday:

[Voultar] wasn’t able to source a Wii U with the much-discussed NAND failure mode, but he was able to source a number of supposedly bricked Wii U systems displaying the error codes 160-0101 and 160-0103. The hack is achieved with an exploit in the Wii U’s USB Host Stack descriptor parsing module, developed by [GaryOderNichts]. It allows the injection of a payload that lets one run unsigned code on the Wii U, achieved via a Raspberry Pi Pico. The Pico is ultimately used to boot off an SD card running a recovery program for the Wii U. By resetting the Wii U’s “coldboot title ID”, it solves the error and gets the console booting properly, as per normal.

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Native Art Market

The Native Art Market will be hosting over 30 Native American artists this weekend in NYC and Washington DC.

Art by award-winning and innovative Indigenous artists from the Western Hemisphere is featured in the museum’s annual Native Art Market. Items for sale include both traditional and contemporary beadwork, jewelry, paintings, photography, pottery, and sculpture.

Check it out!

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Sarah Meyohas’s Tech-Art Explores the Mechanics of Perception #ArtTuesday

Sarah Meyohas is an artist who works with tech. Her work as ranged from film, photography, virtual reality, performance art and sculpture. Last spring she presented an exhibit at Marianne Boesky, in New York. Nice profile from W Magazine:

Her latest body of work has less conceptual sleight-of-hand but even more technical wizardry. For the show at Marianne Boesky, she created sculptures out of holograms and diffraction gratings. (The latter is a device used to manipulate light that is often employed in spectroscopy and telecommunications.) Meyohas—whose red bob and wide-set eyes make her resemble a Millennial Shirley Temple—spent months trying to convince the grating manufacturer to work with an artist. “I had to show them I was willing to pay,” she explains. “They don’t want their time to be wasted.”

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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!

Pulped Fiction: The Da Vinci Code Transformed into 1984

If you’ve read The Da Vinci Code, you know that it’s a very fast read. We have a friend who picked up Dan Brown’s bestseller in a bookshop, opened to the first page, went into a fugue state, and came back to consciousness a few hours later having finished the book, almost against their will. During those strange and dark times when the book first came out, many otherwise discerning readers had similar experiences — so many people, in fact, that the world is still overrun with copies of The Da Vinci Code, decades after its first release. Now artists David Shrigley has a solution to this disturbing phenomenon. Here’s more from JUXTAPOZ:

The story goes that Shrigley’s studio worked with a specialist papermill, book designer and screenprinters to upcycle and repurpose the books into a release of 1,000 copies of Nineteen Eighty- Four, which came out of copyright in 2021. Each book in the edition has been signed and numbered by David Shrigley and comes with a signed and numbered screen-print. Fragments of the original novels remain on the paper, with letters and sometimes whole words of Robert Langdon’s adventures appearing on the pages. The typeface was carefully chosen to mirror the type used for The Da Vinci Code’s first edition, while the book’s cover has been repurposed from the card backing and dustjackets of more than 1,250 copies of the hardback special edition.

“I am fascinated by the power of books to rewrite our culture, something that Dan Brown and George Orwell have each addressed in their wildly successful works,” Shrigley said in a statement. “Pulped Fiction should not be seen as a commentary on either writer, but as one artist’s effort to rescue a mountain of unwanted paperbacks and turn them into something new.”

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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!

Someone Had to Build the Giant Mushrooms for the Candy Forest

Thanksgiving Day is upon us, and with it the long-running Macy’s Day Parade (The parade began in 1924, making this year its 99th!). The parade has always been a spectacle; at times magical, at times cinematic, at times misfortunate (see balloon mishaps, via CNN), but always iconic. I grew up, like many, both watching the parade on television and sometimes live. One really special year my Dad booked a hotel room and took my siblings and I to watch the balloons and give my mom some room to prepare for Thanksgiving. I never realized what a smart move this was until now, especially since there were four of us ages 1-7 at the time.

Anyway, the parade’s spectacle has always been front and center that sometimes it’s hard to remember the level of artistry involved as well. New York Magazine’s Curbed recently wrote about Macy’s Studio and the makers and artists who bring the parade to life, 1 fake cherry at a time.

In the era of Amazon and Alibaba, a surprising amount of what you see at the parade is made from scratch; Carnivale told me that she tried to purchase fake cherries for the tree on the Timothee Chalamet–fronted Wonka-themed float she’s working on but couldn’t find any that were big enough to be seen by gathered crowds on Sixth Avenue, 28 million viewers at home, and Hoda and Savannah dancing in a little booth. She made 80 of them at a rate of about five per day.

Eric Joyner’s Pop Surrealism #ArtTuesday

Folks have their favorite robots, of course. Some lean toward R2-D2, some really dig the T-1000, some like cuddly little WALL-E, and some grey-haired obscurantists will talk your ear off about V.I.N.CENT. from The Black Hole. But a everyone, we hope, has a soft spot in their heart for Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, the classic CinemaScope science fiction riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But only the pop surrealism master Eric Joyner would think of painting Robby playing the blues on an electric guitar. Here’s more from Sci-Fi-O-Rama:

First I get a kernel of an idea, then think about it, expand upon it… consider all the possibilities. I may do some sketches, depending on how lost I am. Then I do research on the subject I want to paint. Next, I may photograph some of my toy robots. Then on the computer I will combine the sketches, research and photos into a composition. Then after transferring the image to the canvas, I spray it with fixative. Next is a thin wash of oil paint (1/2 thinner, 1/2 Galkyd); a brown or grey color. After that drys I work from dark to light, background to foreground, thin to thick and fuzzy to sharp. I mix regular oil paints with alkyds, so the paint drys faster. After a couple weeks I can varnish it, usually spray varnish.

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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!

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 – Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 compares the Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors with the Zero Barcode HAT. About the Tiny Code Reader:

This is the product that inspired the entire roundup. The Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors is available at Adafruit. It has an RP2040 on the back and a camera module on the front. It allows you to quickly scan a QR code and feed the data into a microcontroller or single board
computer. And it’s really inexpensive! Just $7!

The on-board microcontroller runs TensorFlow Lite and does some complicated image recognition to decode the QR code. Simply connect it to your microcontroller via the STEMMA QT / Qwiic connector or wire it up the old-fashioned way. It’s amazing to think about this $7 technology compared to what was available ten years ago. We are in the future!

HackSpace Magazine awards the Tiny Code Reader a 10/10, saying “Amazing tech at an amazing price.”

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 72- Making Music on Pico #CircuitPython @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 writes about making music on a Raspberry Pi Pico:

Most microcontroller programming environments have a way of making beeps, and even if  there’s not an in-built method, it’s a pretty simple thing to do – just flick a pin on and off quickly (but not too quickly) and you have an audio signal that you can send to a speaker, headphones, or other audio devices.

CircuitPython, however, has just gained a complex audio synthesis module called synthio. This lets you not just create beeps and boops, but control these sounds in a variety of ways.

We’ve only really scratched the surface of what you can do with synthio here. It’s a hugely powerful system for creating music using microcontrollers. There’s a more in-depth introduction online at hsmag.cc/synthiofundamentals.

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Lightscape returns to Brooklyn Botanic Garden to cast a ‘Winter Spell’

The flowers may have faded but the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is awash in LEDs. Winter months bring holiday lighting to this Brooklyn park.

If you happen to be in Brooklyn some evening head over and check it out!

Details from the Gothamist:

The third annual “Lightscape” returns on Friday, Nov. 17, with 18 glowing art installations that feature thousands of lights, spread across a mile-long walking trail around the garden grounds.

“It’s very much about getting you to look at things that maybe you’re not looking at on a day-to-day basis,” said Zoe Bottrell, the UK-based creative producer behind this year’s show.

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 72- the Pico W Air #CircuitPython @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 shows the Pico W Air:

Free software and open hardware have enabled a boom in citizen science. This is just the latest device to add to our knowledge of the world around us.

This board comes with a Raspberry Pi Pico W, and adds a Qwiic connector for I2C devices, breaks out a few GPIO pins for 3.3 V, ADC, GND, and four more pins. Most usefully though, is the built-in MQTT client and built-in HTML server, so it can easily transmit the environmental data coming in. It comes with a connection for a PMS5003 particulate matter sensor, which you’ll have to buy separately, along with a power source. Other than that, it’s a one-stop device.

The project can be found at https://hsmag.cc/PicoAirQualityBoard

The board ships with CircuitPython firmware baked into the board. All you have to do is connect to a computer and edit the settings.toml file with WiFi credentials and edit any other settings you might want to change. Comprehensive documentation in the Github repository and beginner-friendly code documentation.  The Air is available on Tindie.

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