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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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Build your own Arthur satellite dish for tracking the ISS

Construct a 3D paper model of the iconic Arthur satellite dish that notifies you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead! Project_Arthur Project_Arthur is a fun project allowing you to construct a 3d paper model of the Antenna 1 dish called Arthur from Goonhilly.

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The robotic teapot from your nightmares

For those moments when you wish the cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was real, only to realise what a nightmare that would be, here’s Paul-Louis Ageneau’s robotic teapot! See what I mean? Tale as old as time… It’s the classic story of guy meets digital killer teapot, digital killer teapot inspires him to 3D print his own. Loosely based on a boss level of the video game Alice: Madness Returns , Paul-Louis’s creation is a one-eyed walking teapot robot with a (possible) thirst for blood

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2017 Weather Station round-up

As we head into 2018 and start looking forward to longer days in the Northern hemisphere, I thought I’d take a look back at last year’s weather using data from Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Stations . One of the great things about the kit is that as well as uploading all its readings to the shared online Oracle database, it stores them locally on the Pi in a MySQL or MariaDB database.

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How to Track Government Aircraft 200 Miles Away with a Raspberry Pi – Intelligent Aerospace

How to Track Government Aircraft 200 Miles Away with a Raspberry Pi Intelligent Aerospace Aircraft equipped with ADS-B are constantly shouting their location into the radio void, along with other useful unauthenticated and unencrypted data. Using an ADS-B receiver with a Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a Raspberry Pi , which will make in ..

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Raspberry Pi Is The Brains Behind Automated Greenhouse – Hackaday

Hackaday Raspberry Pi Is The Brains Behind Automated Greenhouse Hackaday [Asa Wilson] and his wife picked up a 10'x12′ greenhouse from Harbor Freight that for their location required some serious changes, understandable since they're in Colorado on the western slope of Pike's Peak where the winds are strong and the normal …

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Bicrophonic Research Institute and the Sonic Bike

The Bicrophonic Sonic Bike, created by British sound artist Kaffe Matthews , utilises a Raspberry Pi and GPS signals to map location data and plays music and sound in response to the places you take it on your cycling adventures. What is Bicrophonics?

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Storm Glass: simulate the weather at your desk

Inspired by the tempescope , The Modern Inventor’s Storm Glass is a weather-simulating lamp that can recreate the weather of any location in the world, all thanks to the help of a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Image c/o The Modern Inventor The lamp uses the Weather Underground API, which allows the Raspberry Pi to access current and predicted weather conditions across the globe.

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