This tree’s LED lights can be custom controlled over the internet New Atlas Like many people at this time of year, Leo Currie has a decorated tree in his living room. But this one is a bit different, as anyone can open an online landing …
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This tree’s LED lights can be custom controlled over the internet – New Atlas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! There’s much mistletoeing, and hearts will be glowing – as will thousands of Raspberry Pi-enabled Christmas light displays around the world. This morning I have mostly been spending my virtual time by a roadside in snowy Poland, inflicting carols on passers-by
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Christmas lights 2018
Standard Christmas tree ornaments are just so boring, always hanging there doing nothing. Yawn! Lucky for us, Sean Hodgins has created an ornament that plays classic nineties Christmas adverts, because of nostalgia. YouTube Christmas Ornament! – Raspberry Pi Project This Christmas ornament will really take you back… Ingredients Sean first 3D printed a small CRT-shaped ornament resembling the family television set in The Simpsons .
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Sean Hodgins’ video-playing Christmas ornament
We appreciate it’s only October, but hear us out. The Pi Hut’s 3D Xmas Tree is only available for pre-order until the 15th, and we’d hate for you to find out about it too late. So please share in a few minutes of premature Christmas cheer as we introduce you to this gorgeous kit.
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The Pi Hut’s 3D Xmas Tree pre-order
Note: The elves at Pi Towers are all taking next week off to spend some time with their families, and this blog will be quiet for the week.
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So you got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas! Now what?
Electronics Weekly (blog) Raspberry Pi is democratized in Prague Electronics Weekly (blog) A Raspberry Pi 2 controlled Christmas tree was on the back of a special tram car in Prague. The colours on the tree were internet-controlled via the Raspberry Pi and the clever bit was the public were allowed to change the colours. A second Pi …
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Raspberry Pi is democratized in Prague – Electronics Weekly (blog)
Over in Reading, there’s a rather special Christmas tree. Reading College holds a week called “Go Further” every year, where students are encouraged to go beyond their curriculum to create ambitious projects
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XmasPiLights from Reading College
On Saturday, something rather special happened in Cambridge. Tim Richardson and Mike Horne , who run the regular CamJam , were holding a special event: a robotics Raspberry Jam, with competitions for attending teams who had built their Pis into a robot. Eben and I were judging.
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PiWars – Cambridge Jam. With robots.
When we wrote about accelerating Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) on the Pi back in January, several people asked what sort of real-world application FFTs can have. We talked about numerical analysis, cryptography, spectrograms and software-defined radio, among other things, in the comments on that post. All the same, FFTs are something that those who don’t get excited by maths can find a bit dry, and it can be hard to find a good demonstration of FFTs that works for those of you who like to think about things visually
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Digital signal processing with teeny-tiny tap-dancers.
If you’re in the UK and you’re looking for a last-minute present for someone this Christmas, there’s still time to get a Raspberry Pi, a starter kit or other Pi goodies: we’ll deliver them to you in time to get them under the tree.
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Christmas delivery: we’ve got Pis and kits in the Swag Store!