The Raspberry Pi Foundation and edX @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

The Raspberry Pi Foundation are partnering with edX to make their free online courses available to even more people. Here’s more from the Raspberry Pi Foundation:

Supporting teachers and educators is crucial for our mission to enable young people to realize their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Through our online courses educators can learn the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach computing in an engaging way. As a result, they empower young people to in turn develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to use digital technologies effectively, and to be able to critically evaluate these technologies and confidently engage with technological change.

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The courses are written with educators in mind, and are also useful to anyone with an interest in computing. The scope of topics is broad and includes programming in Python and Scratch, web development and design, cybersecurity, and machine learning and AI. Our aim is to support educators of all levels of experience to learn about computing, including teachers, club volunteers, youth workers, parents, and more. The courses also draw on content from our Computing Curriculum and provide support for teachers who want to engage their students with Experience AI, our pioneering education initiative about the field of AI.

Learn more!

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A handheld MakeCode Arcade gaming system #PiDay #MakeCode #CircuitPython @Raspberry_Pi

pondahai, a student at NTUST currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, posts on GitHub designs for a handheld MakeCode Arcade gaming system.

Details are sparse but the devices include a Raspberry Pi Pico controller, a TFT display, a microSD card slot and game control buttons. There is a test program in CircuitPython in addition to MaceCode UF2 compatibility. There is also a 3D printed case for the unit.

See GitHub for more.

Stray Companion Head Morusque Version #piday #raspberrypi

Neat build from Dawn DuPriest. Check out the full write-up up on Hackster.io!

This Stray Companion cosplay with a functioning, animated screen is a HUGE HIT at comic-cons.

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The Ambient Machine: customize your sound experience

Due to the global pandemic, we found ourselves spending more time living in a single environment than ever before. This provided us with an opportunity to listen more closely to the ambient sounds around us.

Yuri Suzumi presents The Ambient Machine, where you may create customised background ambience via 32 toggle switches on this “Sound Conditioner”.

The Ambient Machine provides us with a variety of sounds and music that we can use to design our own background ambience. White noise can mask unpleasant sounds around us and give us a sense of relief, Natural sounds can provide the feeling of relocating to a new environment, providing a break from the environments we have been confined to, and musical rhythms can provide patterns for us to find stability with.

See the video below and more in the post here.

A Circuit Sculpture Project #ArtTuesday

From the Adafruit Learn System archives, here’s a project from Jeff Epler that uses Adafruit GEMMA M0.

Circuit sculpture uses soldered brass rods as components in electronic circuits.

This project shows you the tools and techniques you need to get started through a simple touch-reactive heart that uses an Adafruit GEMMA M0 and CircuitPython.

While this project is deliberately simple, the things you can create with Circuit Sculpture are limited only by your imagination & patience. For more inspiration, consider taking a look at some of Mohit Bhoite’s works.

See project!

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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!

Escape Velocity: Paradoxical Sculptures by Fabian Oefner #ArtTuesday

Sculptural artist Fabian Oefner describes his work as photoshop for the real world. He chops, edits and reconfigures everyday objects into impossible places. Via The Inspiration Grid:

Using rudimentary tools such as band saws and sanding blocks, Fabian sliced a range of common objects such as a sneaker, an old computer, a saxophone, and even a boxing glove to create sculptural pieces that give the impression that these items are pushing through or blending into solid walls.

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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!

Make: reviews the Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI #Feather #RP2040 @make

Make: recently reviewed the Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI video:

“The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI is a microcontroller board capable of DVI digital video output on an HDMI port. That it is possible for a general-purpose microcontroller to generate a DVI signal is impressive, but it requires running the RP2040 beyond its limits.”

“Since its introduction, hackers have been pushing the PIO to its limits, including producing analog VGA video output. Taking it a step further, the PicoDVI project proved it was possible to generate digital video directly from the RP2040 without using an additional chip. Now Adafruit has packaged all the hardware needed to get DVI output from an RP2040 in a feather-sized board and wrapped the PicoDVI project code into an Arduino IDE library.”

See the full review on Makezine.com. And get the Feather RP2040 DVI at Adafruit.

Raspberry Pi DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) for Pi-Hole

via PiMyLifeUp

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is an attempt to improve the security and privacy of your DNS requests by utilizing the HTTPS protocol.

By default, a DNS request sent by Pi-Hole, or your Raspberry Pi is sent over plain text. Unfortunately, this means anyone can intercept this request and use it to track you or even manipulate the data sending you to the wrong website.

Setting up DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Pi-Hole will make these requests secure between your Raspberry Pi and the upstream DNS provider.

Read more.

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather #AdafruitLearningSystem #Adafruit @adafruit @blitzcitydiy

The Feather P2040 Prop-Maker: an all-in-one combination of the Feather RP2040 with a Prop-Maker FeatherWing with a few tweaks based on feedback from expert prop-builders. This board has an I2S amplifier, terminal block for NeoPixels, digital input/output and speaker output, header pins for a servo motor and an LIS3DH accelerometer. Build your next prop with just one board and no soldering!

The Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather guide has everything you need to get started with using the Feather. There’s pages for overview, pinouts, power management, CircuitPython essentials, Arduino, factory reset and resources for download.

Check out the full guide: Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather

Tutorial: Jellyfish Umbrella with Wifi and WLED

We’ve got a new tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Make an LED jellyfish umbrella with NeoPixels and a QT Py Pico W. It’s easy to add lots of complex animations and color changes using WLED, a free LED control software that works over your wifi network. Create presets and playlists of animations in your software and they will run automatically, even when you’re not near Wifi.

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/jellyfish-umbrella-with-easy-wled-wifi-control/

Make a jellyfish umbrella with animated lights, with no coding required. This is an intermediate project that gives you advanced results. The software is simple to load and use. Hundreds of animations and color combinations are available right through your fingertips, using any web browser or the free WLED app on your phone.  The trickiest part of this tutorial is the wiring. There are a lot of connections to make and some challenging soldering to do, but the rest of the build is fairly easy. Make your jellyfish dance and flow with lights, tentacles, and iridescence.  This project would make a great camp “totem” for festivals, or a wonderful costume if it’s built onto an umbrella hat. It’s also easy to synch two or more jellyfish together over wifi using WLED.

The hidden world of Looney Tunes Background art

We really enjoyed this video from The Gaze on YouTube that looks at the unsung hero of Looney Tunes animations – the background art. Part of the video celebrates the brilliant work of animator and layout designer Maurice Noble. Noble started out at Disney where he worked on such beautiful classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. When he moved to Warner Brothers, he took layout design work to another level. Could you imagine the Road Runner without the iconic desert landscapes? Noble’s contributions to Looney Tunes were immense. Below is a still from the short What’s Opera, Doc?, where it’s easy to see how much Noble’s work impacted the overall tone.

(image via gurney journey blog)

Edra Sotos Destination/El Destino: A Decade of GRAFT #ArtTuesday

Organized by Alberto Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Allison Peters Quinn, and Edra Soto, Destination/El Destino: a decade of GRAFT is currently on view at the Hyde Park Art Center. The installation gives you a taste of Puerto Rico. Hyperallergic shares the details.

Edra Soto’s sculptures are lovely places to be inside: dappled light shines through walls made of ornate blocks or windows covered in decorative screens, casting shapely shadows that mingle with the free-flowing breeze. There might be a bench to sit on, a table to play dominoes at, or an architectural essay to read. If you’re really lucky, a slice of pineapple upside-down cake or some spam-velveeta-pimiento sandwiches will be on offer.

Read more and check it out if you’re in Chicago!

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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!

Altered Books by Isobelle Ouzman #ArtTuesday

You don’t have to have read The Neverending Story to have a sense that books are sort of like portals. Each one takes you somewhere else. Isobelle Ouzman has made that metaphor real by carving worlds into books. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

Open one of Isobelle Ouzman’s books, and you’ll be transported to a whimsical world of flora and fauna. The Bratislava-based artist…carves pages of found novels and other tomes into intricate paper labyrinths of forests and meadows. Often occupied by a lone hare or fox, the fairytale scenes are imbued with a quiet, calm sense of mystery about the machinations of the imagined environments and their inhabitants.

Ouzman shares that she gravitates toward mass-produced volumes in poor condition. “Book size, depth, and paper texture play a big role in my decision as well, and I often need to hold a book in my hands before I can visualise a new artwork,” she says. The carving and drawing process depends on both the physical object and the intended narrative, taking between three weeks and three months to complete.

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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!

Relive Your Best Mountain Bike Descents on a Vintage Aircraft Altitude Indicator #Python

Glen Akins uses a Python script and an updated version of a digital-to-synchro project to replay mountain bike climbs and descents at 60x real time speed on a vintage aircraft altitude indicator.

The updated D2S converter fits on a single board and uses three Microchip MCP4802 DACs and three TI OPA548 power operational amplifiers to produce high-power 400 Hz AC waveforms to power and control the servo loop in the altitude indicator.

The block diagram for this project is shown above. A watch records the time and latitude, longitude, and elevation on a ride. Afterwards, this data is exported in a GPX file to a Raspberry Pi 400. On the Pi 400, a Python script reads the GPX file and outputs the elevation data from the file at 60x real time over its first TTL serial port to a Raspberry Pi Pico development board. The Python script also displays the current location on the ride on a graph of the elevation profile of the ride as it is being played back.

See the video below and more in the blog here.

Life Kits Guide to Spotting AI-Generated Images

Prior to reading this guide from Life Kit, hands were always my go-to when I thought I may be looking at an AI-generated image.

Instead of going down a rabbit hole of trying to examine images pixel-by-pixel, experts recommend zooming out, using tried-and-true techniques of media literacy.

One model, created by research scientist Mike Caufield, is called SIFT. That stands for four steps: Stop. Investigate the source. Find better coverage. Trace the original context.

The overall idea is to slow down and consider what you’re looking at — especially pictures, posts, or claims that trigger your emotions.

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Installing Unbound for Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi

via PiMyLifeUp

Unbound is what is called a recursive DNS server and is a way of improving your privacy when browsing the internet.

Simply put, a recursive DNS server such as Unbound calls the DNS root servers directly and then recursively follows the path until it resolves to an IP address your Raspberry Pi can connect to.

This differs from a normal DNS service in which Pi-Hole and your Raspberry Pi will send the entire path to a service such as Cloudflare and then accept the resolved IP Address it returns.

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Time Sync from the Network on the Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Here’s a handy little guide on synchronizing your Raspberry Pi with the network, from Hackaday:

…time synchronization is beneficial for your Raspberry Pi since it doesn’t have its own real-time clock to maintain the time. While you can add an RTC to the Pi, it requires you to purchase an additional component.

This section will teach you how to enable or disable network time synchronization on your Pi, set the servers it uses, and more…. By default, the Raspberry Pi is configured to use the time sync servers provided by the NTP pool. This pool of servers maintains accurate time and will automatically boot servers that don’t maintain an accurate time.

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Early computer art in the 1950s and 60s #Art #Computers @amygoodchild

Around 100 years after Babbage and Lovelace discussed the Analytical Engine, a mathematician named Ben Laposky was inspired by an article written in Popular Science which suggested that decorative patterns could be created using oscilloscopes.

Laposky began creating his “electrical compositions” in 1950, using a cathode ray oscilloscope along with electronic circuits like sine wave generators. He captured the moving outputs using long exposure photography. In later pieces, he rotated filters in front of the screen to add colour to the images.

Artists like Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohr, Georg Nees, Frieder Nake and A Michael Noll heralded the advent of generative computer art. These artists – who were mostly actually scientists or engineers – used code to create algorithms and began to think about the place of the computer in the art world, as well as exploring randomness and chaos.

See more in the article by Amy Goodchild.

NEW GUIDE: Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI Output Port #AdafruitLearningSystem #RaspberryPi @Adafruit @Kattni @Raspberry_Pi

A new guide today in the Adafruit Learning System: Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI Output Port by Kattni Rembor.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could display images and graphics from a microcontroller directly to an HDMI monitor or television? We think so! So we designed this RP2040 Feather that has a digital video output (a.k.a DVI) that will work with any HDMI monitor or display. Note it doesn’t do audio, just graphics!

It’s kinda like we took our RP2040 Feather and DVI Breakout board and glued them together. You get all the pins for use on the Feather, the Lipoly battery support, USB C power / data, onboard NeoPixel, 8MB of FLASH for storing code and files, and then with the 8 unused pins, a DVI output that can be used with CircuitPython, the PicoDVI library in Arduino or Pico SDK.

See this guide now >>>

Hannah Gadsbys Its Pablo-matic #ArtTuesday #PicassoCelebration

The Brooklyn Museum decided to do something a little different for the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death. They handed curation over to comedian Hannah Gadsby.

Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby looks to challenge traditional art history and critics by highlighting under-represented perspectives. Unsurprisingly the show has stirred up a lot of controversy. Barbara Pollack at Hyperallergic makes the case for why you should go see it:

This year is the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death and at least 45 official exhibitions have been planned to celebrate the occasion. Only one dared to take on the status of the artist: It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby at the Brooklyn Museum. As a result, the curators said they received hate mail and the museum was lambasted by critics. When I visited the show, the galleries were crowded with both women and men (something I had rarely found at exhibitions focusing on feminist art) and people were laughing along with Gadsby, the stand-up comedian who inspired and co-curated the exhibition with museum curators Catherine Morris and Lisa Small. The museum visitors didn’t seem ignorant of Picasso’s place in art history, nor did they look like they were eager to “cancel” him. It just felt that Picasso, like all celebrities, could be taken down a notch and the world wouldn’t fall apart.

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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!

Neon Art from Spidertag #ArtTuesday

Neon has been framed as part of a kitsch aesthetic. But artists Spidertag from Argentina has other ideas. HIs new public installation uses multicolored neon shapes to create some meta-modern glory. Here’s more from Brooklyn Street Art:

Here we have the newest public art installation from Spidertag from Argentina, who BSA showed to readers more than a decade ago when he was creating artworks with string and nails. At the time, he was sharing a studio at an alternative art spot in Madrid called La Tabacalera and creating unpermissioned, uncommissioned, works that wended their way through small streets – one nail to the next. Later he disrupted his own public art practice with experimental, electrified, glowing results that became more permanent than temporary.

His newest captivating creation artfully combines technology, design, and artistic ingenuity, interactivity, and playful energy to the city. Curated by Justkids and made possible through the support of OZ Art NWA, this permanent public art piece, named Interactive Neon Mural 16 (INM#16), shines brightly in the heart of the Downtown square. Encompassing 4,700 square feet, this monumental masterpiece represents Spidertag’s most ambitious project to date, inviting viewers to actively engage with the artwork by manipulating the light and motions with their phones.

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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!

Wuzu Clay Makes a Zelda Polly Pocket

Polly Pocket’s were my childhood treasures. I held them in the highest regard and did everything I could to make sure I wouldn’t misplace any of the teeny tiny accessories. Jeez, now I absolutely have to embark on an attic investigation next time I visit my childhood home. If you’re not familiar check out this video from Heather Explores. The star shaped one from 1993 was my absolute pride and joy – I mean… the ferris wheel, hot air balloon and dance floor?! Perfection.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, you know you’re in for a treat 3 seconds in to Wuzu Clay’s Zelda Polly Pocket video build. Make sure you turn on the subtitles for the full experience!

Want more Zelda goodness? Don’t miss this Korok Planter timelapse!

How credit-card size computers are made (Factory Tour) #piday #raspberrypi

Jeff Geerling tours the Pi manufacturing happening at the Sony Tech Center in Pencoed, Wales. Video proof they are rapidly trying to get Pis out to you! Follow along through the whole manufacturing process.

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How Raspberry Pis are made (Factory Tour) #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi

The day after Jeff Geerling interviewed Eben Upton, co-founder of Raspberry Pi, he went to the Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales to tour the factory where almost every Raspberry Pi has been made—50,000,000 of them (as of this month!).

I got to snap a picture with the milestone Pis:

• 1 million on September 30, 2013
• 5 million on September 23, 2015
• 10 million on September 8, 2016

And it looks like they’re set to hit the 50 million milestone any day now. In a strange turn of events, it doesn’t look like it’ll land in September this time!

See the video below and more on the blog post here.

NEW GUIDE: Circle of Fifths Euclidean Synth with synthio and CircuitPython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @BlitzCityDIY

A new guide today in the Adafruit Learning System: Circle of Fifths Euclidean Synth with synthio and CircuitPython

This synth celebrates all things circular: the circle of fifths, Euclidean rhythms and rotary encoders. Four synth voices play random notes in a triad to the beat of a determined Euclidean rhythm animated on the 8×8 matrix. The code is written in CircuitPython with the synthio module and runs on a Feather RP2040.

This project will show you how to build a fully functional synth with the new synthio module.

See this guide now >>>

https://youtu.be/Exk-TGRGq00

A WarGames bedroom computer diorama #WarGames #Art

miniatua on Instagram shows a 1983 WarGames David Lightman bedroom diorama.

Not my usual diorama, but a really fun project that let me use every technique I know. Which other movie has an iconic bedroom that would be worth making?

The detail is so complete, down to the diskettes and inside the IMSAI 8080 computer.

See more on Instagram.

kidmograph’s Tech-Noir GIF Art #ArtTuesday

There are times when we want 80’s tech-noir and that’s all we want. Blade Runner, Akira, Brazil, that sort of thing. Tech-noir was such a real thing in the 80’s that an entire sequence in the iconic tech-noir movie The Terminator takes place in a club called TechNoir. That’s why we dig ///TR∆ILS/// from kidmograph. Pure tech-noir.

Here’s more from kidmograph

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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!

Carnegie Mellon’s AI-Powered FRIDA Robot Collaborates with Humans To Create Art #ArtTuesday

The intersection of human and robotic creativity. FRIDA – [Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts] is a robot arm that creates paintings with the help of AI.

From Carnegie Mellon University:

Users can direct FRIDA by inputting a text description, submitting other works of art to inspire its style, or uploading a photograph and asking it to paint a representation of it. The team is experimenting with other inputs as well, including audio. They played ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and asked FRIDA to paint it.

The New York Times also published this story on FRIDA

This Robot Can Paint. But Is It Art?

The process of moving from language prompts to pixelated images to brushstrokes can be complicated, as the robot must account for “the noise of the real world,” Dr. Oh said. But she, Mr. Schaldenbrand and Jim McCann, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon who also helped develop FRIDA, believe that the research is worth pursuing for two reasons: It could improve the interface between humans and machines, and it could, through art, help connect people to one another.

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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!

Making a responsive capacitive touch pad set with Raspberry Pi Pico #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi

James Brown on Mastodon demonstrates making an array of capacitive touch pads on a circuit board. On reading the pads, the typical algorithm of polling was reversed:

The capacitive sensor works by discharging the pad through a resistor and timing how long it takes. Previously I was doing this a few thousand times in a loop and returning the accumulated time. Here I’m doing it the other way round – spending a fixed time in the loop, and counting how many charge / discharge cycles it can do. My aim was to make it easier to tune the sample period, but it turns out noticeably smoother and less noisy this way too.

See more in the post here and on GitHub.

Using PlayStation Remote Play on a Raspberry Pi

via PiUpMyLife

It is entirely possible to use your Raspberry Pi as a remote play client for the PlayStation 5 and 4.

To achieve this, we will utilize a piece of software on our Raspberry Pi called Chiaki. This software was developed by Florian Märkl and then ported to the Pi’s hardware by Fredrum.

This client sets your Raspberry Pi to operate as a remote play client that can register itself with your local consoles. You can then stream games directly from your PS4 or PS5 to your Raspberry Pi. It is very similar in capability to other game streaming tools you can use on your Raspberry Pi like, Steam Link or Moonlight.

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Raspberry Pi Camera Takes Photos Using AI Instead of Lens #piday #raspberrypi #Paragraphica

What if in the future your camera didn’t need to … well be a camera? Pushing the eerie “big brother” thoughts aside, this project is an ingenious use of AI.

The ‘camera’ creates an image using AI. It pulls data from parameters such as weather, GPS location, date, time of day etc

Dubbed the Paragraphica, creator Bjørn Karmann modeled the design after the star-nosed mole rat. Fittingly the animal is notorious for being ‘blind’ but actually perceives the world through other means.

More from Tom’s Hardware:

The device looks somewhat like a classic camera. It has a huge cover over where a lens would be that resembles the nose of a star-nosed mole. The viewfinder is a screen in which you can adjust the settings for the generation of your picture. It also has a series of dials that can be adjusted to set things like film grain and sharpness for the AI program to integrate into the photo generation process. Pressing the capture button will trigger the system to generate a photograph for you based on the selected parameters.

Data used in the image generation is gathered using various open APIs. This includes things like your location, date, time, as well as nearby landmarks. Paragraphica uses all of this information to process the final photo using text-to-image AI.

Learn more about the Paragraphica from bjoernkarmann.dk

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Young People’s Programs Ran in Space for Astro Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Thousands of teams of young people from all across Europe got to have their own programs run on board the International Space Station. It’s called the Astro Pi Challenge, and it provides opportunities for young people to have get their ideas in space! Here’s more from the Pi Foundation:

Mission Zero is the Astro Pi beginners’ activity. To take part, young people spend an hour writing a short Python program for the Astro Pi computers on the International Space Station (ISS). This year we invited them to create an 8×8 pixel image or animation on the theme of fauna and flora, which their program showed on an Astro Pi LED matrix display for 30 seconds.

This year, 23605 young people’s Mission Zero programs ran on the ISS. We need to check all the programs before we can send them to space and that means we got to see all the images and animations that the young people created. Their creativity was absolutely incredible!

See and learn more!

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