Student Raspberry Pi challenge focuses on transport solutions E&T Magazine Now in its seventh year, the annual PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition is open to teams of young people who have used their ingenuity to invent something for the credit card-sized device. The theme of travel and transport opens the door to entries …
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This is the story of Occu-Pi, or how a magnet, a Raspberry Pi, and a barrel bolt saved an office team from queuing for the toilet. The toil of toilet queuing When Brian W. Wolter’s employer moved premises, the staff’s main concern as the dearth of toilets at the new office, and the increased queuing time this would lead to: Our previous office had long been plagued by unreasonably long bathroom lines
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Tired of queuing for the office toilet? Meet Occu-Pi
TechRepublic Windows 10's Cortana on Raspberry Pi : Creators Update turns the Pi into voice-controlled assistant TechRepublic One of the most significant changes for businesses is that Windows 10 is now also verified to run on the Compute Module 3, a small, slim module based on the Raspberry Pi 3 and designed to be built into appliances. The verification opens the door for ..
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Raspberry Pi unlocks doors Electronics Weekly (blog) According to Alex Bate writing on the RaspberryPi .org blog, it can be retro-fitted to an existing lock, “so there's no need to start pulling out the inner workings of your door”.
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The team at YouTube channel Hacker House always deliver when it comes to clear, detailed tutorials, and their newest project, ‘ How to Make a Smartphone-Connected Door Lock ’, is no exception. Using a Raspberry Pi-powered deadbolt actuator, multiple users can remotely unlock a door via a smartphone app.
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Hacker House Smartphone-Connected Door Lock
The 5-megapixel visible-light camera board was our first official accessory back in 2013, and it remains one of your favourite add-ons. They’ve found their way into a bunch of fun projects, including telescopes , kites , science lessons and of course the Naturebytes camera trap
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Hackaday Open Sesame Raspberry Pi Style Hackaday The Pi uses two switches to determine the position of the door and relay to trigger the existing garage door opener's operation button. This simple circuit could serve many different purposes, not just opening a garage door.
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Building a Better Mousetrap With The Raspberry Pi Hackaday Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door, but what about a smarter mousetrap? [Alain] decided to find out by making a Raspberry Pi -powered, Internet-connected smart trap. The brains of the operation is a Pi running Arch Linux
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My friend Tony always excuses himself early from parties, because he has to get home at dusk to shut his chickens in their coop. Tony, this one’s for you so that next time, you get to stick around for dessert.
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Mechanise your chickens
TrustedReviews Raspberry Pi to get its own touchscreen display TrustedReviews Eben Upton, the mind behind the microcomputer and CEO of Raspberry Pi , has revealed that the display panels will start shipping very soon. “This is our first display panel that we're going to be hopefully getting out of the door before the end of the ..
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