A thermal printer continuously prints digits of pi on a loop of thermochromic foil. Digits are streamed by an ESP8266 from google’s pi.delivery database which holds a world record of 50 trillion digits.
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Who doesn’t want a Star Wars cabinet game? We could spend all day playing, and our housemates could just stand behind us saying “Stay on target! Stay on target!” But as time goes on, working versions of these cabinets are harder and harder to find. So make James Milroy just made one, with a little help from a Raspberry Pi. Here’s more from the Raspberry Pi Blog:
“My project was to build a replica, or as close as I could reasonably manage, of the Atari Star Wars arcade cabinet,” James Milroy tells [MagPi]. “I really wanted to build a cockpit as that’s what I played on in the eighties, but sadly I didn’t have the room to house it, so the compromise was to build a stand-up cabinet instead…. Initially, I had toyed with sourcing an original cabinet and restoring it, but soon gave up on that idea after finding it nigh on impossible to source a cabinet here in the UK,” James explains. “Almost all cabinets for sale were located in the USA, so they were out of the question due to the high cost of shipping. Atari only made just over 12,500 cabinets worldwide, so their rarity meant that they commanded top dollar, effectively putting them out of my price range. It was at this point that I decided that if it was going to happen, then I would have to make it myself.”
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We love it oh so very much when folks combine their electronics skills and their woodworking skills. Y’all – take a look at this build mw33212 shared on reddit:
This one for my brother. 10 and 5mm walnut with maple and some Indian rosewood. Hand tools and a cordless drill for the woodworking. Tried something new with the dovetails on this one.
Inside there’s a raspberry pi 4b running emulation station, a small amp and speakers, a small portable projector (which I’m very impressed with) and a 4 cell 18650 lithium battery board. Yet to see how long it will power the full unit for but seems to be easily good enough for a full movie.
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Here’s a fun DIY smartbike project! It uses Raspberry Pi to outfit the bike to turn on lights when it gets dark, keep track of speed, location, and note how long you’ve been using the bike. The project is from keanuDav via Instructables.
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Handy project by Usha Ganesh and Tam Hanna and posted by Robert Perkel up on Hackster.io.
One the biggest challenges in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is power. Some IoT devices are kept near power outlets, while others must run off a battery or other non-rechargeable energy source. Devices that run on a battery must be carefully designed and implemented to reduce power consumption as much as possible. While small microcontrollers (MCUs) can consume very little power, developing applications on them is more challenging than on a Single Board Computer (SBC), such as a Raspberry Pi® or a similar Unix-based SBC. SBCs are an easy platform to develop on with support for a wide array of programming languages and libraries, but as a tradeoff, they consume a lot more power than a small MCU, even when shut down.
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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
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!
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
