Access to clean, safe drinking water is a global problem: as water.org notes, 663 million people lack access to water that’s safe to drink. That’s twice the population of the United States, or one person in every ten. Additionally, a recent review of rural water system sustainability in eight countries in Africa, South Asia, and Central America found an average water project failure rate of 20-40 percent
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Photocatalysis with a Raspberry Pi
This is very silly indeed. Salade Tomate Oignon in Paris seems to be making a bit of a habit of doing outlandish things with Raspberry Pi and other people’s photography.
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Le Myope – a confused camera
Music hacks are my favourite hacks of all, and this one had me bounding around the office with the video below playing on my laptop so I could share it with people yesterday. Meet Quaver, the multiplayer piano. With a Raspberry Pi, some magnetic pickups, and the open-source Sooper Looper (which I am downloading as soon as I have finished writing this post), Mike and Sean from MajorMega hacked an old upright piano into an instrument that can loop up to four separate tracks, and then upload your results to the internet to be listened to when you get home
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Quaver, the analogue looping piano
Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Camera Combined With Thermal Printer (video) Geeky Gadgets Using a Raspberry Pi mini PC and a receipt thermal printer Arvid Larsson has created an awesome portable camera that is capable of recording and saving videos as well as acting like an instant camera. Printing off copies of the picture he has just ..
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Raspberry Pi Camera Combined With Thermal Printer (video) – Geeky Gadgets
Just over a week ago now we closed the Secondary School phase of the Astro Pi competition after a one week extension to the deadline.
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Astro Pi: Mission Update 4
Lifehacker Build a Solar-Powered Camera Radio Beacon with a Raspberry Pi Lifehacker A Raspberry Pi -controlled camera takes the picture, the Raspberry Pi translates the images into an audio signal, and the image is then slowly broadcast using slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions over via an attached radio. And the whole thing is …
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Build a Solar-Powered Camera Radio Beacon with a Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker
We’ve just spotted a third-party add-on for your Pi and Camera Board which we think you’ll find really useful.
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Camera board extension
Back in August 2014 we got very excited about one of the first Kickstarter projects to use the Raspberry Pi Compute Module . We’re pleased to announce that after much hard work, many late nights and far too much sugar and caffeine, the FiveNinjas team have started shipping actual real Slices to backers. Here’s a picture of Gordon and Jon working their ninja magic in a cold warehouse somewhere in deepest darkest Sheffield; the racking that can be seen in the picture contains parts for 1500 Kickstarter Slices
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Slice Media Player Starts Shipping!
Yesterday we received some figures which confirmed something we’ve suspected for a few weeks now: we’ve sold over five million Raspberry Pis. The Pi has gone from absolutely nothing just under three years ago, to becoming the fastest-selling British computer.
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Five million sold!