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This Raspberry Pi Tricorder is Straight Out of The Alpha Quadrant

We’ve encountered beaucoups of Raspberry Pi cyberdecks over the years and even a few tricorders but this is one of the coolest Pi-based tricorder cyberdecks we’ve come across. It was created by a maker who goes by Himmelen4 and is designed to resemble a TR-560 Tricorder VI standard model from Star Trek: The Next Generation…. Read more

Adafruit QT Py RP2040 Review: A tiny board for great projects

Our Verdict There is so much to love about this board. Small in size, yet great in flexibility the QT Py RP2040 is a board that you need in your projects. For + Small size + Stemma QT Port + USB-C Against – Lack of GPIO pins Adafruit have so far released three RP2040 boards…. Read more

Neotron Pico Is A Micro ATX Board For Your Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Jonathan Pallant) The Neotron dev team, consisting of makers Jonathan Pallant and Kaspar Emanuel, have created a custom PCB to carry our new favorite microcontroller—the Raspberry Pi Pico. The system is designed to resemble a retro-style computer you might find in the ’80s, albeit with a micro-ATX form factor. The best… Read more

Why does Amazon hate its most enthusiastic smart home fans?

Blink’s cheap wireless cameras have seen better days.Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Blink, the Kickstarter success bought by Amazon in 2017, has long been synonymous with inexpensive battery-powered home video cameras that don’t require a monthly contract for cloud recordings. Open-source projects like Homebridge, Home Assistant, and HOOBS have made the cameras even… Read more

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Machine Learning With Seeed’s reTerminal

Home News (Image credit: Seeed) Seeed Studio announced the reTerminal, its latest addon for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. This $195 Compute Module 4 machine learning and industrial application carrier board comes enclosed inside a robust case and sports a 5-inch touchscreen and plenty of expansion possibilities. Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Seeed)… Read more

Meet RuhaCam, a Raspberry Pi 3D-Printed Open Source Camera

Home News (Image credit: Ruha Camera) Smile and say cheese! This Raspberry Pi project, known as RuhaCam, is ready to capture all of life’s finest moments. It was created by Ruha Cheng and Penk Chen who decided to develop an open-source approach to handheld digital cameras. The camera is housed inside of a 3D-printed shell… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico PCB Manages Temperature Sensor

Home News (Image credit: David Boothe) The Raspberry Pi has been a staple in DIY home automation for years, but the Raspberry Pi Pico is quickly catching up. This stylish Pico PCB comes to us from a maker named David Booth who designed it to handle input from a temperature sensor. The module is capable… Read more

RISC-V Raspberry Pi Alternative Edges Closer to Release

Home News (Image credit: CNX-software) A potential new Raspberry Pi competitor will soon be announced, according to a post on embedded systems blog CNX-Software. Based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, the Allwinner D1 development board is a credit-card-sized single board computer with a single core XuanTie C906 64-bit RISC-V CPU running at 1GHz… Read more

A.I. For Raspberry Pi Pico: Uctronics TinyML Learning Kit Review

Our Verdict Featuring a 2MP camera, a Pico and all the trimmings, this kit adds workable person and object detection to your Raspberry Pi Pico. For + Simple instructions + Quick results + Compatible with many boards Against – Needs C/C++ knowledge – Lens is unprotected When we think of machine learning and artificial intelligence… Read more

Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Official Edge Impulse Machine Learning Support

Home News (Image credit: Edge Impulse) Designing AI applications is about to get easier for Raspberry Pi users. As of today, the Raspberry Pi 4 is an officially supported platform within the Edge Impulse ecosystem. For those unfamiliar, Edge Impulse makes machine learning accessible on a number of platforms, the most recently supported being our… Read more

Raspberry Pi Project Sanitizes Masks with UV Light

Home News (Image credit: Box of Hope) Bringing home a used face mask can harbor unseen and unwanted bacteria. But we’ve noticed something over the years—where there’s a problem, there’s a Raspberry Pi solution! Today’s project tackles this issue and is known as the Box of Hope, developed by Jan-Hendrik Ewers, Sarah Swinton, and Martin… Read more

Raspberry Pi Transforms Nerf Gun Into Call of Duty Controller

Home News (Image credit: Alfredo Sequeida) If you don’t know what to do with your old Nerf guns or maybe just want to upgrade them, you could always turn them into working video game controllers as Alfredo Sequeida did with his latest Raspberry Pi project. The best Raspberry Pi projects offer more than just proof… Read more

Crowbits’ Programmable Magnetic Blocks STEM Kit Review: Build, Code and Play

Our Verdict Crowbits’ progressive STEM kits teach future engineers (ages 6-10 and up) the basics of electronics and programming, but nondurable paper elements and poorly translated documentation could lead to frustration and incomplete projects. For + 80+ Lego-compatible electronic modules and sensors + Helpful programming software + Progressive learning kits + Examples are very helpful… Read more

Eyecam Is a Raspberry Pi-Powered Webcam That Looks Like a Human Eye

Home News (Image credit: Marc Teyssier) Have a fear of being spied on? Then look out because the Eyecam is an eye-opening, open-source, Raspberry Pi-powered camera that eerily resembles a human eye. Half pet, half unused concept from David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, this fleshy camera from Germany’s Saarland University is less of a Best Webcams contender… Read more

You Can Control These Raspberry Pi Robot Arms With VR Controllers

Home News (Image credit: Ricky Robot) Creating a robotic arm is hard enough, but controlling one can be a beast of its own. It’s not always easy to translate servo calculations into a user-friendly interface, but Ricky Robot made a Raspberry Pi robotic arm controller anyone can use! This project uses VR controllers so users… Read more