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Make your own custom LEDs using hot glue!

Tired of using the same old plastic LEDs in your projects? It’s time to grab a hot glue gun and some confectionary moulds to create your own custom LEDs! Blinky LEDs! Lighting up an LED is the standard first step into the world of digital making with a Raspberry Pi. For example, at our two-day Picademy  training events, budding Raspberry Pi Certified Educators are shown the ropes of classroom digital making by learning how to connect an LED to a Pi and use code to make it blink

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This Raspberry Pi robot paints with light – htxt.africa

This Raspberry Pi robot paints with light htxt.africa The so-called “Light Rover” is based on a Raspberry Pi 3 with two wheels topped with a Neopixel LED matrix. By programming the robot's movement and the colours and positions of the LEDs, the team was able to create precise photographs instead of the …

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Aquarium lighting and weather system

We spotted this aquarium project on YouTube, and were struck with searing pangs of fishy jealousy; imagine having a 2000-litre slice of the Cayman Islands, complete with the weather as it is right now , in your living room. aMGee has equipped his (enormous) tropical fish tank, full of corals as well as fish, with an IoT Raspberry Pi weather system. It polls a weather station in the Cayman Islands every two minutes and duplicates that weather in the tank: clouds; wind speed and direction; exact sunset and sunrise times; and moon phase, including the direction the moon travels across the tank

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LED Notification Cube is a Good First Project – Hackaday

Hackaday LED Notification Cube is a Good First Project Hackaday The brain of the system is a Raspberry Pi . [Matt] found a Python library that allowed him to directly control an RGB LED strip based on the LPD8806 chip. He wired the data pins directly to the Pi and used an old 5V cell phone charger to power the LEDs

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Create your own musical light show with Raspberry Pi – opensource.com

opensource.com Create your own musical light show with Raspberry Pi opensource.com I didn't need another computer running Linux at home, so my interest in the Raspberry Pi focused on what its hardware could offer that my laptops couldn't. When I unboxed the kit and saw all the LEDs and wires that came with it, the first thing that ..

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Das Wordclock

We loved this project from Bernd Krolla – it’s beautiful, it’s useful, it taught him some stuff he didn’t know already – and it’s way, way cheaper than buying something like this ready-made in a store would be. This is not the first Wordclock we’ve seen, but it’s by far the most elegant, and it’s beautifully made.

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Getting hooked on programming with YRS project ‘Hook’

Carrie Anne: A few weeks ago, Raspberry Pi hosted its first ever Young Rewired State centre and took part in the Festival of Code. We had a lot of fun

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Control Your Home Lights With A Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker Australia

Control Your Home Lights With A Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia The process requires a bit of hacking together, but the end result is a Raspberry Pi -powered light system that you can use your phone to control. The Raspberry Pi runs a strip of LEDs, and the web-based automation system can change what the LEDs do,

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