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TV Time Machine

Back when home television sets were thin on the ground and programmes were monochrome, TV maintained a magical aura, a ‘how do they fit the people in that little box’ wonder which has been lost now that sets are common and almost everyone has their own video camera or recording device. Many older shows were filmed specifically to be watched in black and white, and, in much the same way that plugging your SNES into an HD monitor doesn’t quite look right, old classics just don’t look the same when viewed on the modern screen. 50’s televisions were so pretty.

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Announcing the first ever European Astro Pi Challenge!

Right now, 400km above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, are two very special pieces of hardware. Two Raspberry Pi computers are currently orbiting our planet, each equipped with a Sense HAT , a camera and a special aluminium flight case – and children all over Europe have the chance to program them.

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OpenROV: Underwater Exploration with Raspberry Pi

There are plenty of Raspberry Pis doing good work in various unusual environments, from monitoring penguins in the extreme cold of Antarctica to running schoolchildren’s programs in the earth’s orbit . Thanks to OpenROV , we can add ‘exploring the briny deep’ to that list. The California-based company’s newest product, Trident , is an affordable underwater drone built with hackability in mind

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Raspberry Pi Seismograph Lets You Watch The Earth Move (video) – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Seismograph Lets You Watch The Earth Move (video) Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a new project, may be interested in this professional grade personal seismograph development board which has been created by Angel Rodriguez and can easily be plugged into your Raspberry Pi mini PC. Once setup ..

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Tim Peake Using Raspberry Pi Astro Pi MP3 Player On The ISS (video) – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets Tim Peake Using Raspberry Pi Astro Pi MP3 Player On The ISS (video) Geeky Gadgets Tim Peake the British astronaut that is currently stationed on the International Space Station which is circling the earth has sent back a new video of him using the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi unit to carry out a number of tasks, coding challenges and …

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Drones and Raspberry Pi flying high at Erle – Electronics Weekly (blog)

Electronics Weekly (blog) Drones and Raspberry Pi flying high at Erle Electronics Weekly (blog) Erle Robotics has already developed an open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi which turns the tiny low cost computer module into a drone control system. Fixed-wing autonomous crafts are typically used for Earth survey missions as they are capable ..

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Cambridge’s Raspberry Pi computer blasts off to International Space Station … – Cambridge News

Cambridge News Cambridge's Raspberry Pi computer blasts off to International Space Station … Cambridge News And a clever piece of software designed by a Cambridgeshire schoolboy is up there with it.

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