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Friday, July 12, 2024

Using Flatpak on the Raspberry Pi

PiMyLifeUp shares a guide on how to set up your Raspberry Pi to install and use Flatpaks.

Flatpak is a different way of packaging and deploying applications on to Linux based operating systems such as Raspberry Pi OS.

These special packages contain all the different pieces to run that specific application on your system. They are isolated from the rest of your system.

App developers like to use Flatpaks because it often makes updating their software significantly simpler, and the installation process isn’t any more complicated than using the apt package manager.

King Charles III packs ‘fifty millionth Raspberry Pi’ during visit to Sony factory #piday #raspberrypi

It was a royal occasion as King Charles went in for a slice of Pi. The UK Monarch toured Sony’s production facilities. Reported on by Tom’s Hardware:

The King’s visit coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Pencoed site, which originally made Sony’s Trinitron televisions. During the early days of Pi, Sony worked with Raspberry Pi to move production of the credit-card-sized computers to the United Kingdom.

Animated Movie Display with Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Maybe when you were a kid, you lived behind a movie theater. And maybe that movie theater threw away movie posters and cardboard uprights. And maybe you nabbed those posters and uprights and that was pretty great. How much greater to make your very own animated movie poster display? Here’s more from CompactKidney via instructables:

This display is powered by a Raspberry Pi, which plays MP4 videos created from animated movie poster GIF files. The posters will cycle through at a predetermined interval.

Additionally, I wanted the display to serve other purposes, so I set up a simple web server. This server allows you to select which items to display at any given time. While this Instructable will primarily focus on the movie poster display, I’ll also highlight how you can easily display other information on the dashboard.

See project!

How to Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a NAS for Whole-Home File Sharing

Via PCmag

My house is incredibly neat and organized, but when it comes to my digital life, the word “hoarder” comes to mind. If that sounds like you, a network attached storage device—or NAS for short—is the perfect investment to make your files wirelessly available on any device in your home.

Unfortunately, these devices can get expensive. Instead of skipping out on improved file storage, one way to save money is to build one yourself for cheap! This might sound complicated, but it’s easy to do if you have an inexpensive Raspberry Pi board at the core. Here’s how to build your own NAS device.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

The new Pico Micro Mac adapter makes your Raspberry Pi Pico into a Classic Mac @Raspberry_Pi @ronscompvids

We featured MicroMac, a Macintosh 128K hardware/software emulator for under £5/$6 on a Raspberry Pi Pico last month.

Pico Micro Mac from Joe’s Computer Museum offers Ron’s Computer Videos’ design in kit or soldered form with a PCB.

Just add Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor and power, and you got a tiny little classic Macintosh box, ready to use!

Available as a kit without Pico, or fully assembled and ready to go with a Pico!

You can see this for sale here and the original article with software etc. here.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER #ArtTuesday

Starting July 12th, the Speed Art Museum will have Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER on exhibition. The immersive artwork will mark the first time that a major Kusama artwork has ever been on view in Kentucky.

An icon of global contemporary art, Yayoi Kusama has eclipsed art historical categorization even as her multifaceted practice has found kinship over the decades with movements such as Minimalism, Pop Art, and Surrealism. Born in Matsumoto City, Japan, in 1929, she studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. Beginning in childhood, the artist was (and continues to be) transfixed and consumed by hallucinations in which the world around her appears to be teeming with repetitive forms. By the mid-1960s, Kusama had become well known in the avant-garde community for her provocative vision, exhibitions, and “happenings.” Since this time, the artist’s remarkable artistic journey has grown to span performance and live events, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and film, as well as commercial design and fashion. Through Kusama’s artworks, we, too, can enter her dynamic worlds of wonder, mystery, and imagination.

Read more and check it out if you’re in the Louisville area.

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!

Creating Thousands of Colors With 18th Century Techniques #ArtTuesday

La Maison du Pastel is the world’s oldest pastel manufacturer, going back to 18th-century Paris. They produce almost 2,000 pigments, all made by hand with traditional techniques. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

Originally founded by Henri Roché, La Maison du Pastel creates pastels that are coveted for their texture and the range and intensity of hue. The original formula, which involves combining pigments with a binder, took Roché and his son decades to perfect, taking into consideration the way the material adhered to paper, reacted over time, and achieved the most vibrant colors.

Pastels have never garnered the prestige or romance of more popular mediums like oil paint, and over time they have gone in and out of fashion. But in 2000, Isabelle Roché—a distant relative of the founder—saw potential in the company’s legacy, secret recipe, and niche audience. Isabelle, along with co-owner Margaret Zayer, are the studio’s only two employees, working together to produce classic colors like Cobalt and Burnt Umber alongside variations like Caribbean Blue, Dragon’s Blood, and Crepuscular Violet.

Learn more!