Handmade jukebox plays music when you swipe a card Mashable We can all appreciate a handmade gift, but this is on another level. Designer Chris Patty was challenged by his family to create something that wasn’t …
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Move over, Elon Musk — there’s a new rocket maverick in town: YOU! Rockets! Step inside the UK rocketry scene, build and launch a rocket, design your own one, and discover the open-source rocket programmes around the world! In issue 12, we go behind the scenes at a top-secret launch site in the English Midlands to have a go at our own rocket launch, find the most welcoming bunch of people we’ve ever met, and learn about centre of gravity, centre of pressure, acceleration, thrust, and a load of other terms that make us feel like NASA scientists. Meet the Maker: Josef Prusa In makerception news, we meet the maker who makes makers, Josef Prusa, aka Mr 3D Printing, and we find out what’s next for his open-source hardware empire
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HackSpace magazine 12: build your first rocket!
The sun is actually shining here in Cambridge, and with it, summer-themed Raspberry Pi projects are sprouting like mushrooms across our UK-based community (even though mushrooms don’t like hot weather…). So we thought we’d gather some of our favourite Pi-powered projects perfect for the sun-drenched outdoors. Air quality monitors and solar radiation With the sun out in all its glory, we’re spending far more time outside than is usual for UK summer
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Eight(ish) Raspberry Pi projects for the summer
Last year, Code Club Australia set a new world record during their Moonhack event for the most young people coding within 24 hours. This year, they’re hoping to get 50000 kids involved — here’s how you can take part in this interstellar record attempt! Celebrating the Apollo 11 moon landing Nearly 50 years ago, humankind took one giant leap and landed on the moon for the first time. The endeavour involved an incredible amount of technological innovation that, amongst other things, helped set the stage for modern coding
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Moonhack 2018: reaching for the stars!
htxt.africa Kid's Raspberry Pi radio plays custom fairy tales using NFC tags htxt.africa After being inspired by the NFC tech in his Google Nexus 5, maker Lukas Vierhaus began work on a Raspberry Pi radio that could connect his daughter to family that was scattered around Germany. Vierhaus then encouraged grandparents and other family …
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Brian Carrigan found the remains of a $500 supermarket barcode scanner at a Scrap Exchange for $6.25, and decided to put it to use as a shopping list builder for his pantry. Upcycling from scraps Brian wasn’t planning to build the Wunderscan. But when he stumbled upon the remains of a $500 Cubit barcode scanner at his local reuse center, his inner maker took hold of the situation.
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Scanning snacks to your Wunderlist shopping list with Wunderscan
A couple of weekends ago, we celebrated our sixth birthday by coordinating more than 100 simultaneous Raspberry Jam events around the world. The Big Birthday Weekend was a huge success: our fantastic community organised Jams in 40 countries, covering six continents! We sent the Jams special birthday kits to help them celebrate in style, and a video message featuring a thank you from Philip and Eben: Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2018 To celebrate the Raspberry Pi’s sixth birthday, we coordinated Raspberry Jams all over the world to take place over the Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend, 3-4 March 2018. A massive thank you to everyone who ran an event and attended
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Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2018 roundup
Hackaday A Jukebox For The 21st-Century Kit Blends Raspberry Pi, Sonos … Hackaday When [Chris Campbell]'s children wanted to play an album in the background over dinner, switching the outputs on his family's Sonos sound system was perhaps too involved for their budding mastery of technology.
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Joe Birch has built a simple device that converts online news stories to Braille, inspired by his family’s predisposition to loss of eyesight. He has based his BrailleBox on Android Things , News API , and a Raspberry Pi 3 . The background Braille is a symbol system for people with visual impairment which represents letters and numbers as raised points.
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BrailleBox: Android Things Braille news display
We’ve all been there: zombies at the door, Daleks on the driveway, creatures from the Upside Down in the walls. You want to be able to monitor their movements, but how do you do that without attracting their attention? Wesley Archer (AKA Raspberry Coulis ) has the answer: a Pi-powered Night Vision Camera , perfect for catching unearthly creatures on the prowl — and for wildlife spotting, birdwatching, and home security too, I guess… Wesley’s Pi-powered Night Vision Camera Black box To build his Night Vision Camera, Wesley ordered an infrared Lisiparoi LED Light Ring , a Cyntech Raspberry Pi case , a Pi NoIR Camera Module , and USB WiFi adapter
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Raspberry Coulis’s night vision camera