BetaNews New add-on board lets you watch TV on your Raspberry Pi BetaNews The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is a great, low-cost single board computer that you can put to all sorts of uses, but there are some hardware add-ons available for it which make it more useful.
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Today we are excited to launch a new add-on board for your Raspberry Pi: the Raspberry Pi TV HAT , on sale now at $21.50. The TV HAT connects to the 40-pin GPIO header and to a suitable antenna, allowing your Raspberry Pi to receive DVB-T2 television broadcasts. Watch TV with your Raspberry Pi With the board, you can receive and view television on a Raspberry Pi, or you can use your Pi as a server to stream television over a network to other devices.
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The Register Raspberry Pi fans up in arms as Mathematica disappears from Raspbian downloads The Register Knickers have become ever so twisty over the last few days as fans of the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer and its Raspbian operating system noted that Mathematica had been “removed”. The conspiracy theories kicked off when users noted two simple …
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Raspberry Pi based garden monitoring system supplies five sensors LinuxGizmos.com It surpassed its funding goal with 13 days left and is available for $115 with 3D printed stand and one plant sensor, or $175 with a kit that adds a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, 5V/2A power supply, nylon standoffs, and pre-loaded SD card. There are also “Full …
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In HackSpace issue 9, Dave Astels helps us get familiar with what electricity is, with some key terms and rules, and with a few basic components. Get your copy of HackSpace magazine in stores now, or download it as a free PDF here . tl;dr There’s more to electricity than Pikachu. Electricity basics Electricity is fascinating
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Fossbytes La Frite Linux Mini Computer Looks Like An Ultra-affordable Raspberry Pi Alternative Fossbytes Raspberry Pi has been able to inspire a wide range of open source Linux computer boards. Some of the notable names include Orange Pi , Asus Tinker Board, Banana Pi , etc.
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Interesting Engineering Increase Your Raspberry Pi's Functionality with This Accessory Kit Interesting Engineering Nothing embodies this technological revolution like the Raspberry Pi —an open source electronic platform that lets users create an almost limitless number of tech products from scratch. If you want to take your projects to the next level, however, you …
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ZDNet Raspberry Pi A+-sized $10 La Frite Linux board has better specs at half the price ZDNet The La Frite board is a follow up to Libre Computing's $25 Le Potato board and is “loosely based” on the design of the Raspberry Pi A+ — a smaller and cheaper Pi than the $35 Raspberry Pi B+ — due to the 40-pin GPIO header setup.
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Olivier Ros has put together a short and sweet tutorial for creating your own voice-changing mask for Halloween. Voice changer with Raspberry Pi Zero for Halloween How to make a voice changer with Raspberry Pi Zero for Halloween Buy MIC+ sound card on Amazon : goo.gl/VDFzu7 tutorial here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Halloween-Voice-Changer-With-Raspberry-Pi/ https://www.raspiaudio.com/halloween Halloween: we love it! Grab your ghostly fairy lights, hollow out your pumpkins, and hunt down your box of spooky knick-knacks — it’s Halloween season! And with every year that passes, we see more and more uses of the Raspberry Pi in haunting costumes and decorations.
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