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Gladys Project: a Raspberry Pi home assistant

If, like me, you’re a pretty poor time-keeper with the uncanny ability to never get up when your alarm goes off and yet still somehow make it to work just in time — a little dishevelled, brushing your teeth in the office bathroom — then you too need Gladys. Raspberry Pi home assistant Over the last year, we’ve seen off-the-shelf home assistants make their way onto the Raspberry Pi. With the likes of Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Siri, it’s becoming ever easier to tell the air around you to “Turn off the bathroom light” or “Resume my audiobook”, and it happens without you lifting a finger.

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BitBarista: a fully autonomous corporation

To some people, the idea of a fully autonomous corporation might seem like the beginning of the end. However, while the BitBarista coffee machine prototype can indeed run itself without any human interference, it also teaches a lesson about ethical responsibility and the value of quality. BitBarista Bitcoin coffee machine that engages coffee drinkers in the value chain Autonomous corporations If you’ve played Paperclips , you get it

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Hacker House’s gesture-controlled holographic visualiser

YouTube makers Hacker House are back with a beautiful Flick-controlled holographic music visualiser that we’d really like to have at Pi Towers, please and thank you. Make a Holographic Audio Visualizer with Gesture Control Find all the code and materials on: https://www.hackster.io/hackerhouse/holographic-audio-visualizer-with-motion-control-e72fee A 3D holographic audio visualizer with gesture control can definitely spice up your party and impress your friends. This display projects an image from a monitor down onto an acrylic pyramid, or “frustum”, which then creates a 3D effect.

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A Raspberry Pi Halloween projects spectacular

Come with us on a journey to discover the 2017 Raspberry Pi Halloween projects that caught our eye, raised our hair, or sent us screaming into the night. Happy Halloween Whether you’re easily scared or practically unshakeable, you can celebrate Halloween with Pi projects of any level of creepiness. Even makers of a delicate constitution will enjoy making this Code Club Ghostbusters game , or building an interactive board game using Halloween lights with this MagPi tutorial by Mike Cook

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N O D E’s Handheld Linux Terminal

Fit an entire Raspberry Pi-based laptop into your pocket with N O D E’s latest Handheld Linux Terminal build. The Handheld Linux Terminal Version 3 (Portable Pi 3) Hey everyone. Today I want to show you the new version 3 of the Handheld Linux Terminal.

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Sean Hodgins’ Haunted Jack in the Box

After making a delightful Bitcoin lottery using a Raspberry Pi, Sean Hodgins brings us more Pi-powered goodness in time for every maker’s favourite holiday: Easter! Just kidding, it’s Halloween. Check out his hair-raising new build, the Haunted Jack in the Box. Haunted Jack in the Box – DIY Raspberry Pi Project This project uses a raspberry pi and face detection using the pi camera to determine when someone is looking at it

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Vinyl Shelf Finder

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a large record collection must be in want of a good shelving system. Valentin Galea has solved this problem by developing the  Vinyl Shelf Finder . In this build, a web-based app directs a pan-and-tilt laser to point out your record of choice among your collection.

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Video: Maker Builds a Raspberry Pi-based Game Boy Color to Play “Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds” – Electronics360

Video: Maker Builds a Raspberry Pi -based Game Boy Color to Play “Player Unknown's Battlegrounds” Electronics360 The maker, Michael Darby, gutted the original Game Boy Color and replaced it with the Raspberry Pi , a 3.7V LiPo battery, TFT screen, SD card, Adafruit Powerboost 500c, Adafruit Pi TFT 2.2 and various other off-the-shelf components for the Game Boy …

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Dialekt-o-maten vending machine

At some point, many of you will have become exasperated with your AI personal assistant for not understanding you due to your accent – or worse, your fantastic regional dialect! A vending machine from Coca-Cola Sweden turns this issue inside out: the Dialekt-o-maten rewards users with a free soft drink for speaking in a Swedish regional dialect. The world’s first vending machine where you pay with a dialect! Thirsty fans along with journalists were invited to try Dialekt-o-maten at Stureplan in central Stockholm.

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