Play Chess Like Harry Potter Hackaday If you are a Harry Potter fan, you might remember that one of the movies showed an Isle of Lewis chess set whose pieces moved in response to a player’s voice …
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Kano Planning Star Wars-Themed Coding Kits Tom’s Hardware The company behind the Harry Potter Coding Kit and the Computer Kit Touch is licensing the right to use Star Wars from Disney.
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Magic Wand Learns Spells through Machine Learning and an IMU Hackaday Jennifer Wang likes to dress up for cosplay and she’s a Harry Potter fan. Her wizarding skills are technological rather than magical but to the casual observer …
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Today marks Harry Potter’s 38th birthday.
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Happy Birthday, Harry Potter: wizard-worthy Pi projects
Today marks Harry Potter’s 38th birthday. And as we’re so, so very British here at Raspberry Pi, we have no choice but to celebrate the birth of The Boy Who Lived with some wonderfully magical projects from members of the community. Build your own Daily Prophet After a trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter , Piet Rullens Jr wanted to build something special to remember the wonderful time he and his wife had at the amusement park.
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Happy Birthday, Harry Potter: wizard-worthy Pi projects
Network World Raspberry Pi roundup: Winning your wizarding duels, and bad IoT news Network World A delightfully insane man named Allen, who does a lot of this kind of thing, has rigged together a Raspberry Pi , an Arduino, IR blasters and – gulp – electronic muscle-clenching nerve stimulator gizmos called tens units to create a sort of Harry Potter … and more »
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Walk around the commons of Cambridge and you’re bound to see one or more of the Cambridge University Quidditch Club players mounted upon sticks with a makeshift quaffle. But try as they might, their broomsticks will never send them soaring through the air
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Harry Potter and the Real-Life Wizard Duel
Most people would visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and bring back a few souvenirs to adorn their shelves. But for Piet Rullens Jr , with a video from his trip to hand, that simply wasn’t enough. Daily Prophet poster with moving object Daily Prophet with moving object Taking to Photoshop, Piet designed a copy of the Daily Prophet, the newspaper from the original book and film series, and included an article about his trip to the Harry Potter theme park
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Harry Potter and the Real-Life Daily Prophet
By recreating the iconic Wizard’s Chess set from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (sorry America, it’s Philosopher , not Sorcerer ), 18-year-old Jambassador Bethanie Fentiman has become my new hero. Ron, you don’t suppose this is going to be like… ‘real’ wizard’s chess, do you?
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You’re a (chess) wizard, Bethanie