NoMachine is a free piece of software that you can use to access your Raspberry Pi’s desktop remotely.
This software is very much like other remote desktop software, such as TeamViewer or AnyDesk, allowing you to share the desktop and allow remote interaction.
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Raspberry Pi posted up this tutorial for using your Pi camera as a webcam. Great for upgrades, angles or just more options!
Raspberry Pi now offers a suite of Camera Module 3 variants with 12-megapixel sensors and autofocus functionality, together with a choice of standard and wide lenses which are available with or without an infrared filter. These cameras are available alongside our two High Quality Cameras with 12.3 megapixel sensor and back-illuminated sensor architecture, adjustable back focus, your choice of C/CS mount or M12 mount, and built-in tripod mount.
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A design for a Commodore SD card reader in the shape of an external floppy drive with LED lights has been posted on Printables. It’s a remix from Thingiverse.
It’s a real thing to look to integrate SD cards into vintage computers and there are hardware solutions but not as many designs for making the SD card look correct with the gear. Designs like this help a great deal. They can be brought from the back of a computer to the side or front via extension cables. Dressing them up with 3D prints is fantastic!
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 week @adafruit we’re making a wearable air quality device with Feather ESP32-S3 and CircuitPython. Prototyping a replica of the Spaceship Earth from EPCOT. The timelapse this week features the Mythosaur designed by Jason McLachlan.
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!
Originally designed by Curt Roth, this Ultibot has been included as a standard file in a lot of Cura releases. It had been removed during a rebrand but it still has a special place in the heart of a lot of employees.
It even has its own dedicated page on the Ultimaker website highlighting the different places where you can still find this robot.
The original file, which still can be found in the source files, is not watertight. This version has been fixed and made solid, so you don’t see the error when loading this file.
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!
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!
Play only the “good notes” with this MIDI Hexpad. You can build a hextacular isomorphic controller using an Adafruit QT Py RP2040, low-profile Kailh CHOC keyswitches, a custom PCB, and hexagonal keyswitches, in a 3D printed case, all running on CircuitPython. 🐝
Jepler has posted up a second guide using CircuitPython together with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Subtitled “Press Button, Get Superpower” this guide shows you how to send a request to OpenAI’s servers and stream the response to a display using CircuitPython.
In this guide, you will learn how to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT API to generate text from a prompt using CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico W.
At startup, or when the arcade button is pressed, a new, original snippet of text will be generated on OpenAI’s servers and shown on the OLED screen connected to your Pico W. Because of the random factor in the text ChatGPT generates, it’s unlikely that two responses would ever be the same.
Since ChatGPT generates plausible text rather than making true statements, use this project only for situations where the truth is unimportant. For example, by default the request to ChatGPT asks for a description of an “unconventional but useful superpower”.
The program supports simple customization by writing prompts in simple human language inside the settings.toml file, so you can let your imagination run wild with original prompts, an enjoy the sometimes-funny, sometimes-nonsensical text generated by the large language model known as ChatGPT.
This week @adafruit we’re making a wearable air quality device with Feather ESP32-S3 and CircuitPython. Prototyping a replica of the Spaceship Earth from EPCOT. The timelapse this week features the Mythosaur designed by Jason McLachlan.
@EverydayBronx is an Instagram account started in 2014 as part of The Everyday Projects initiative. On March 31 the Everyday Bronx exhibition featuring these photos and videos will open at the Bronx Documentary Center! RSVP for the opening reception March 31 here and for the April 4 panel discussion here
The exhibition will feature more than 50 photographs and video displays, mostly done on cellphones, from what has become an important online archive of Bronx life. By encouraging followers to photograph their neighborhoods, Everyday Bronx fosters artistic expression from a range of individuals, not just trained photographers, and creates a unique online archive of documentary images of the Bronx. The photos and videos portray the real Bronx, dispelling misconceptions about the borough.
The exhibit’s opening night will feature music, breakdancing, and graffiti––celebrating the history of the Bronx as the birthplace of hip-hop and its role as an epicenter of creative art, music, and dance.
Text or use the QR code and this LED fountain will light up with a personalized light show. The creative studio SOSO built this installation for Regent Properties. From Design Milk
Each wish is kept a secret, thanks to a cloud server that pulls from online visual resources to decipher the content of each message. The wishes are then transformed into a colorful light show that travels across a rippled round bench and over wall-mounted screens. Wish Fountain is visible to all entrances and levels of the building, giving viewers the chance to impact their environment.
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!
Fusion of Helios is a 140 megapixel image of the sun created by Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel. Here’s more from @AJamesMcCarthy on Twitter:
A blend of science and art, this photo combined over 90,000 images meticulously layered and processed to reveal our star in a way you’ve never seen before.
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!
There is a memory issue with the Wii U causing an epidemic of bricked consoles. This could be devastating for collectors and archivist. The e-shope closes next week and for a console that didn’t sell very well, any loss of units is worrisome.
Fear not! The pico may just be the solution. Voultar goes through the steps on YouTube. Reported on by Club386:
This fix ‘patches’ the title ID that somehow gets corrupt, causing the system to become unable to launch the OS menu. To be more precise, the Raspberry Pi Pico is used to inject UDPIH which allows booting from the SD card – without any pre-modification to the Wii U – that hosts a recovery menu file. To do so, the Pico must be connected to one of the front USB ports right at the moment the Wii U drive initialises.
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Whilst the Raspberry Pi RP2040 is quite a capable little chip, on the whole it’s nothing really special compared to the big brand offerings. But, the PIO peripheral is a bit special, and its inclusion was clearly a masterstroke of foresight, because it has bestowed the platform all kinds of capabilities that would be really hard to do any other way, especially for the price.
Our focus this time is on Ethernet, utilizing the PIO as a simple serialiser to push out a pre-formatted bitstream. [kingyo] so far has managed to implement the Pico-10BASE-T providing the bare minimum of UDP transmission (GitHub project) using only a handful of resistors as a proof of concept. For a safer implementation it is more usual to couple such a thing magnetically, and [kingyo] does show construction of a rudimentary pulse transformer, although off the shelf parts are obviously available for this. For the sake of completeness, it is also possible to capacitively couple Ethernet hardware (checkout this Micrel app notefor starters) but it isn’t done all that much in practice.
Learn more!
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Baby’s First Mace by dutchmogul is really awesome – and it gave me an idea: Why not remix it into Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir, to give it an even higher nerdyness score? So, I went and did just that!
The result is actually only loosely based on the original model, but I at least kept the faceted style of Baby’s Mace for the handle and pommel.
The hammer should print fairly easy on almost any printer with the instructions listed below, as long as the printer can handle 60° overhangs.
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!
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!
These planters were designed after my recently released Fancy Easter Eggs. I really like the texture patterns I used on the Eggs and wanted to continue exploring more ways to use them! There are 3 Planters in this series; Diamond, Grid, and Web. They are all the same size (excluding thickness) and print with no supports needed. The planters have built in drainage holes, and I also designed and included a drip tray that works for each of the designs with raised ribs to facilitate water draining.
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!
We all know the problems with phone charger cables laying around and getting tangled up in all possible ways.
That issue I know all to well, and especially on my nightstand, I several times managed to get my arm tangled up in the cable while sleeping.
And exactly this was also my motivation for designing this super simple but very cool cable organizer.
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 concept of a Klein bottle was first described in 1882 by the German mathematician Felix Klein. It is a closed non-orientable surface that has no inside or outside. It is similar to the Möbius strip, but unlike the Möbius strip it has no boundaries and cannot physically exist in three-dimensional space.
In this three-dimensional representation, the surface intersects with itself, but in four-dimensional space the self-intersection can be eliminated. Unfortunately, I don’t have a 4D printer yet.
Modelling this intriguing shape in chain link latticing allows for visualization of the whole 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!
This is my take on a dice box for the tower. I used the brick from the tower so that the tray and tower match exactly. Despite not having a ramp from the exit of the tower, around 99% of the dice still stay in the dice tray. It also has the added benefit that it can be used as a regular hand-rolled dice tray.
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 week @adafruit we’re prototyping new projects. Designing a retro inspired case for a desktop air quality sensor. Modeling polyhedrons for an Epcot spaceship earth replica with LEDs. The timelapse this week features a cardinal designed by GreenCopper.
Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She was a design consultant for Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, and more.
As an early pioneer of pixel art and of the graphical computer interface, she has been celebrated as one of the most significant technologists of the modern world.
Kare designed the graphic user interface icons for Apple during the early years of the company. Her process is documented in graph-paper sketchbooks. Using one square to equal one pixel, Kare produced icons for various functions the computer user might undertake (for example, a pair of scissors symbolized the cutting of text, and a trash bin, the deletion of files).
The pictograms were designed to be intuitive and understandable by Apple users across the globe. At the same time that Kare mined history and visual culture for existing icons that could be appropriated—from wristwatches (to mark the passing of time) to globe bombs (to indicate a system failure)—she created a visual language unique to the original Mac OS.
Great news for indy film makers. MoonRay has released its code free to use as open-source! You’ll need to do some work and have some know how to use it but it is a great step.
Whether you’re a budget creative working on your own VFX or you’re a seasoned veteran hopping from post house to post house, MoonRay from DreamWorks is now available for filmmakers. The best part is that it is completely free.
Released under an open-source license, the Hollywood animation renderer was made to be efficient and scalable.
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!
A Kleenex box is made of paper, and on that paper is a pattern. That pattern was made by a person, as was the paper, and it turns out that the paper and the pattern are inseparable, since the creation of the pattern lay in the craft of making the paper. As it turns out, the person is Faith Harrison, and when thinking about the legacy of paper and craft-as-art, the work of the paper craftspeople of the 20th Century must be taken into consideration. Here’s more from Yale University Press:
Because they are experimenters and accustomed to viewing their work as something to be used by others, humility and a pragmatic orientation are common attributes. Professional paper artists and artisans are found in all regions of the US. Many artists included in Pattern and Flow were aesthetically influenced by their home environments, whether natural or urban. They did not adopt the styles of contemporary art movements, apart from a few drawn to the graphic art of the American counterculture or mid-century abstract art. Rather, most found inspiration in their direct encounters with the decorative processes, materials, and methods. All were motivated by beauty and technical perfection. Some took a historical approach, creating traditionally patterned papers with paints made from traditional, often organic, ingredients; others preferred to create modern versions of patterns using modern materials. Each of these groups created both one-of-a-kind papers and multiple sheets with a similar design, or so-called production papers. Other artists took a highly experimental approach, making one-of-a-kind papers using nontraditional materials—such as industrial paints and cooking condiments—to create unusual visual effects. Many of the artists defy categorization and worked, or are still working, in a variety of techniques and styles. The techniques used to create the papers include marbling, paste paper, and other various painting and printmaking approaches. While these methods are grounded in the traditional decorated paper techniques practiced globally for centuries, this new generation both rediscovered and reinvented paper decoration and surface design with a fresh vitality and freedom of expression. The result has been an efflorescence of new and glorious designs which found their way into the daily fabric of our lives.
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!
This trashbot is doing more than just taking out the trash, it is also helping researchers study human robot interaction. The pi based pair of robots was reported on by TechXplore. NYer’s are so bad after all, some of the findings even gave me a chuckle:
Among their findings were that people welcomed the robots and were appreciative of their assistance. Some sought to “help” the robots by offering trash and moving obstacles from their path. Pedestrians even invested the robots with humanlike intentions, assuming, for instance, that wobbling motions were signals of appreciation, when in fact the motions were simply due to uneven pavement.
Illustrated notes of the city that never sleeps.🗽🍎
New York City is an ever changing landscape. It has a rhythm and feel that is uniquely its own and its why we are proud to live and work here.
Gothamist published this lovely article on artists who are documenting the city as it changes. Spreading across social media they are immortalizing businesses of NYC by sharing sketches, watercolor and 3D prints.
He’s one of a growing number of New Yorkers who have set out to document and preserve an ever-changing city through DIY projects spread via social media, particularly Instagram. Their creations are love letters to a city that is still only beginning to emerge from the trauma of the pandemic. And in some cases, their efforts bolster an urban landscape where rising rents endanger longtime businesses beloved by locals.
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