The Art of Retro-Futurism in Jack Wang’s TVA Computer Design #ArtTuesday

The design aesthetic for Marvel’s Loki and the TVA does an incredible job of capturing a sci-fi future that could have been. Take a look at the immaculately rendered TVA Multifunctional Computer. Via Beautiful life:

At the heart of this design is a conscious effort to capture the essence of retro-futurism, a style that harks back to the technological dreams of the 1960s. The computer is distinguished by its spherical upper section, a nod to the classic design ethos of the past century. This element is seamlessly integrated with an array of retro components, creating a machine that feels both familiar and otherworldly. The TVA Multifunctional Computer is equipped with features reminiscent of traditional technology, such as a reel tape recorder and volume toggle buttons. It also includes modern functionalities like forward, rewind, play, pause, and record buttons, alongside a robust full-size QWERTY keyboard for mechanical input, representing a bridge between eras.

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Mixed-Media Masks Made from Found Objects

These beautiful and innovative masks are made by Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru. Made from found objects collected around his hometown of Nairobi, Kabiru creates work of all forms.

Ranging from mechanical parts and cooking utensils to plastic caps and beads, Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru fashions dazzling eyewear and helmets from salvaged and found objects. The futuristic forms often obscure the eyes like an ornamental veil, and motorbike helmets provide a fitting canvas for fins and frills.

Read more and check out their Instagram.

Monitor Drone Flights in Real Time With #raspberrypi #piday @Raspberry_Pi

Tom’s Hardware shares how a Raspberry Pi FPV monitor shares drone flights in real time.

If you’re a maker with your head in the sky, you’ve got to check out this Raspberry Pi FPV monitor project put together by Seii-FPV. Instead of searching the market for an existing product, Seii-FPV opted to make a device from scratch using open-source tools. In addition to working as an FPV drone monitor, the Raspberry Pi comes with all the benefits of a desktop PC.

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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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I Spy, with my Little Pi… #Raspberrypi

Jeff Geerling shared this project on Youtube!

Build a free and open source NVR that’s better than most commercial NVR’s.

I used Frigate, a Raspberry Pi, a Coral TPU, and Axzez’s Interceptor 1U chassis.

Axzez sent me the 1U chassis and the required accessories (not including hard drives or the Raspberry Pi) for this build, but they did not pay any money, nor did they have any input into the content in this video.

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Arduino vs. Raspberry Pi – Electronics with Becky Stern | DigiKey

DigiKey shared this vide on Youtube!

Which should you use for your project, Arduino or Raspberry Pi? In this video, Becky Stern shows you the primary differences and explains why you would choose a microcontroller or single board computer (SBC) for your project.

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The RP2040 ZX Spectrum emulator has just been released

The ZX2040 is a port of Andre Weissflog ZX Spectrum emulator to the Raspberry Pico RP2040, packed with a simple UI for game selection and key mapping to make it usable without a keyboard.

This project is specifically designed for the Raspberry Pico and ST77xx based displays. The reference device is the Pimoroni Tufty RP2040 display board, but actually the code can run into any Raspberry Pico equipped with an ST77xx display and five buttons connected to five different pins. The buttons work as inputs for the four gaming directions (left, right, top, bottom) and the fire button.

Main features

• Pico -> Spectrum key mapping with each pin mapped up to two Spectrum keys or Kempstone joystick moves. Each game has its own key map, taking advantage of mapping to make games easier to play on portable devices: for instance Jetpac maps a single key (down key) to up + fire. Key macros are used in order to automatically trigger key presses when given frames are reached, to select the kempstone joystick, skip key redefinition, and other things otherwise impossible with few buttons available on the device.
• A minimal ST77xx display driver is included, written specifically for this project. It has just what it is needed to initialize the display and refresh the screen with the Spectrum frame buffer content. It works both with SPI and 8-wires parallel interfaces and is optimized for fast bulk refreshes.
• The emulator has an UI that allows to select games into a list, change certain emulation settings and so forth.
• Multiple games included, with a script to easily added more (see section about adding games). Important, I included copyrighted games hoping that’s fair-use, since these games are no longer sold. If you are the copyright owner and want the game to be removed, please open an issue or write me an email at antirez at google mail service.
• Real time upscaling and downscaling of video, to use the emulator with displays that are larger or smaller than the Spectrum video output. The emulator is also able to remove borders.
• Crazy overclocking to make it work fast enough  Warning: the code must run from the Pico RAM, and not in the memory mapped flash, otherwise it’s not possible to go at 400Mhz. This is achieved simply with pico_set_binary_type(zx copy_to_ram) in CMakeList.txt. There are no problems accessing the flash to load games, because the code down-clocks the CPU when loading games, and then returns at a higher overclocking speeds immediately after.

See more on the project GitHub page. Under an MIT license.