Geeky Gadgets DIY R3-14 Raspberry Pi personal robot assistant Geeky Gadgets For example Sanjeet has used Google Assistant, 433 MHz RF transmitters, and a Raspberry Pi mini PC as components in this build. “Along the way, he also contributed some reusable pieces himself, including an LED library for the PI and a library to allow ..
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As educators and makers at Raspberry Pi, we think a lot about failure and how to deal with it constructively. Much has been written about the importance of failure to design and engineering projects.
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Fail your way to perfection
This column is from The MagPi issue 54 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet
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Hackaday Raspberry Pi Home Automation for the Holidays Hackaday Yeah, there are blinky lights and it's all controlled by his smartphone. That's just the basics.
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Raspberry Pi Home Automation for the Holidays – Hackaday
Hackaday Raspberry Pi Zero Becomes Mighty Miniature Minecraft Machine Hackaday In a clever bit of miniaturization, [JediJeremy] has nearly completed a gyro-mouse controller for a Raspberry Pi Zero! Ultimately this will be a wearable Linux-watch but along the way he had some fun with the interface. Using the MPU6040 ..
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Business Insider They hacked her pancreas, and found love along the way Business Insider A Raspberry Pi mini computer takes data from the USB stick and glucose monitor and transfers the recommendation to the insulin pump.
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They hacked her pancreas, and found love along the way – Business Insider
This is not a flashy post with lots of pictures and farkles. It’s a thank you note. In February 2012 we started selling the Raspberry Pi (you may not have heard the story—it went pretty well ;))
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Since Broadcom released complete documentation for the VideoCore IV GPU back in February 2014 we’ve seen a number of fun uses of our 24GFLOPs of QPU compute, from Andrew Holme’s FFT library to Pete Warden’s deep learning experiments. It’s not unusual to see a 10x increase in performance over the ARM for algorithms with a decent amount of parallelism. A platform is only as good as its development tools, so it’s a great start to the New Year to see a new QPU macro assembler from Marcel Müller
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New QPU macro assembler
Frederik and Ernest Lotter from Blue Horizon Embedded Systems in South Africa are driving from the UK to South Africa via Russia and the Middle East, taking in seventeen countries on their way. They are making the journey in a Land Rover Defender which is fitted with a Raspberry Pi-based distributed light control system
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Frederik and Ernest’s Europe – Middle East – Africa roadtrip
Quick housekeeping note: thanks for all the kind birthday wishes! We’re going to be celebrating tomorrow on March 1, not today on Feb 28. Prof Alan Mycroft wants me to point you all at the Pirates of Penzance , whose protagonist has a leap-year problem similar to the Foundation’s. We’ll have a (lengthy) blog post for you tomorrow about the anniversary.
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