Are you interested in using an E Ink display in your next Raspberry Pi project? Let us help you get started! Weather and new display using a Raspberry Pi Zero and Kindle e-reader by Luke Haas E Ink displays E Ink displays are accessible, they don’t need a lot of power, and they can display content without any power connection whatsoever — think Amazon Kindle if you’ve only a vague knowledge of the technology
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Using E Ink displays with a Raspberry Pi
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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Build your own Arthur satellite dish for tracking the ISS
Warning: GIFs used in today’s blog contain flashing images.
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Recording lost seconds with the Augenblick blink camera
In this article from The MagPi issue 69 , David Crookes explains how Daniel Berrangé took an old Kodak Brownie from the 1950s and turned it into a quirky digital camera. Get your copy of The MagPi magazine in stores now, or download it as a free PDF here . The Kodak Box Brownie When Kodak unveiled its Box Brownie in 1900, it did so with the slogan ‘You press the button, we do the rest.’ The words referred to the ease-of-use of what was the world’s first mass-produced camera
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Converting a Kodak Box Brownie into a digital camera
Go undercover and keep an eye on your stuff with this brilliant secret Coke bottle spy cam from Tinkernut! Secret Coke Bottle SPY CAM! – Weekend Hacker #1803 SPECIAL NOTE*** THE FULL TUTORIAL WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK April Fools! What a terrible day. So many pranks. You can’t believe anything you read
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Tinkernut’s hidden Coke bottle spy cam
Spring has sprung, and with it, sleepy-eyed wildlife is beginning to roam our gardens and local woodlands. So why not follow hackster.io maker reichley’s tutorial and build your own solar-powered squirrelhouse nature cam
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Build a solar-powered nature camera for your garden
To aid his mother in reading the labels of her groceries, Russell Grokett linked a laser barcode reader to a Raspberry Pi Zero W to read out the names of scanned item. RASPBERRY PI TALKING BARCODE READER My mom is unable to read labels on grocery items anymore, so I went looking for solutions. After seeing that bar code readers for the blind run many hundreds of dollars, I wanted to see what could be done using a Raspberry Pi and a USB Barcode reader.
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Barcode reader for visually impaired shoppers
N-O-D-E’s Pi Plug is a simple approach to using a Raspberry Pi Zero W as an always-on networked device without a tangle of wires. Pi Plug 2: Turn The Pi Zero Into A Mini Server Today I’m back with an update on the Pi Plug I made a while back. This prototype is still in the works, and is much more modular than the previous version
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N-O-D-E’s always-on networked Pi Plug
Jason Barnett used the pots feature of the Monzo banking API to create a simple e-paper display so that his kids can keep track of their pocket money. Monzo For those outside the UK: Monzo is a smartphone-based bank that allows costumers to manage their money and payment cards via an app, removing the bank clerk middleman. In the Monzo banking app, users can set up pots, which allow them to organise their money into various, you guessed it, pots
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e-paper pocket money tracker using Monzo pots
If you head over to the website of your favourite Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller today, you may find the new Zero WH available to purchase. But what it is? Why is it different, and what can you do with it
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Zero WH: pre-soldered headers and what to do with them