Python code creates curious, wordless comic strips at random, spewing them from the thermal printer mouth of a laser-cut body reminiscent of Disney Pixar’s WALL-E: meet the Vomit Comic Robot! https://i.imgur.com/j0S40jm.mp4 The age of the thermal printer! Thermal printers allow you to instantly print photos, data, and text using a few lines of code, with no need for ink.
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Randomly generated, thermal-printed comics
Unless you’ve been AFK for the last two days, you’ll no doubt be aware of the release of the brand-spanking-new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ . With faster connectivity, more computing power, Power over Ethernet (PoE) pins, and the same $35 price point, the new board has been a hit across all our social media accounts! So while we wind down from launch week, let’s all pull up a chair, make yet another cup of coffee, and look through some of our favourite reactions from the last 48 hours. Twitter Our Twitter mentions were refreshing at hyperspeed on Wednesday, as you all began to hear the news and spread the word about the newest member to the Raspberry Pi family
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Pi 3B+: 48 hours later
We’re making with a purpose in issue 3 of HackSpace magazine . Not only are we discovering ways in which 3D printing is helping to save resources — and in some case lives — in the developing world, we’re also going all out with recycling.
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HackSpace magazine 3: Scrap Heap Hacking
With a £1000 grant from Santander, Poppy Mosbacher set out to build a full-body 3D body scanner with the intention of creating an affordable setup for makespaces and similar community groups. First Scan from DIY Raspberry Pi Scanner Head and Shoulders Scan with 29 Raspberry Pi Cameras Uses for full-body 3D scanning Poppy herself wanted to use the scanner in her work as a fashion designer. With the help of 3D scans of her models, she would be able to create custom cardboard dressmakers dummy to ensure her designs fit perfectly
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Affordable Raspberry Pi 3D Body Scanner
Why press a french press when the french press can press itself? Here’s Estefannie to explain it all… Internet Button Controlled Automated French Press Hey World! What’s better than making coffee? Not making coffee.
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Estefannie’s Automated French Press
The more observant among you may have spotted that we’ve recently updated the Raspbian-with-PIXEL image available from Downloads . With any major release of the OS, we usually find a few small bugs and other issues as soon as the wider community start using it, and so we gather up the fixes and produce a 1.1 release a few weeks later. We don’t make a fuss about these bug fix releases, as there’s no new functionality; these are just fixes to make things work as originally intended.
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A security update for Raspbian PIXEL
New powerful cameras for Raspberry Pi device launched Free Press Journal Bengaluru: After launching the low cost, credit-card sized computer “Raspberry Pi3″ in February, its manufacturer element14 on Thursday unveiled two new upgraded cameras for the device. The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera v2 ..
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The Register For just $400 you can have this Raspberry Pi – and MINE BITCOIN The Register Move over, mega-miners: an Andreessen-backed venture is going to beat off your data-centre rigs with $400 worth of Raspberry Pi -powered brick.
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For just $400 you can have this Raspberry Pi – and MINE BITCOIN – The Register
If you follow us on Twitter , you may have seen some pictures of me standing next to important looking people in suits, handing out Raspberry Pi kits on Tuesday. This was the launch event for an educational project we’ve been working on with the British Embassy in Tallinn over the last few months.
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Raspberry Pi in Estonia project launch
Gizmag Axiom Audio puts the power of Pi into new wireless speaker Gizmag But what really sets this speaker apart is the fully functional Raspberry Pi computer beating at its heart. While this allows future Axiom updates to be installed with the touch of a button on the user interface, it also opens the door to user-created ..
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Axiom Audio puts the power of Pi into new wireless speaker – Gizmag