Merlin Pi Camera is a Photographic Wizard
[Mister M] was quite excited to mess around with the new high-quality Raspberry Pi camera and build a project around it. Unfortunately, lockdown forced him to rummage through old tech on hand rather...
View ArticleA Raspberry Pi Tablet, With A DSI Screen
Since the Raspberry Pi arrived back in 2012, we’ve seen no end of interesting and creative designs for portable versions of the little computer. They often have problems in interfacing with their...
View ArticleThe Safest Model Roller Coaster
[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example of physics,...
View ArticleTouchscreen-Powered USB Hub Selectively Powers Down Devices
One of the most useful features of the Universal Serial Bus is its hot-plugging capability. You simply plug in your device, use it, and unplug it when you’re done. But what if you’ve got a huge number...
View ArticlegCore: Make Portable Devices with Less Frustration
[Dan Julio]’s gCore (short for Gadget Core) is aimed at making GUI-based portable and rechargeable gadgets much easier to develop. gCore is the result of [Dan]’s own need for a less tiresome way to...
View ArticleA Raspberry Pi Phone for the Modern Era
While it might seem like mobile phones are special devices, both in their ease of use and in their ubiquity in the modern culture, they are essentially nothing more than small form-factor computers...
View ArticleBuilding the World’s Largest Nintendo 3DS
While the Nintendo 3DS was capable of fairly impressive graphics (at least for a portable system) back in its heyday, there’s little challenge in emulating the now discontinued handheld on a modern...
View ArticleLow-Cost Display Saved By RP2040
Anyone looking for components for electronics projects, especially robotics, microcontrollers, and IoT devices, has likely heard of Waveshare. They are additionally well-known suppliers of low-cost...
View ArticlePi Zero Runs DOOM Via Wireless Power
What’s better than a Raspberry Pi Zero running DOOM on a 3.5″ touchscreen? Running it over wireless power, of course! [atomic14] has been interested in wireless power for a while, and while most of the...
View ArticleRaspi-Powered Typewriter Is a Real MUSE
Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there are endless distractions when it...
View ArticleNew Part Day: Flush-mount Touchscreen For Retro PC Build
I recently had the opportunity to purchase an early version of a new display, and it happened to be just the thing I needed to make a project work. That display is the Elecrow 11.6″ CrowVision...
View ArticleStreaming Deck Removes Need for Dedicated Hardware
Streaming content online has never been more popular than it is now, from YouTube to Twitch there are all kinds of creators around with interesting streams across a wide spectrum of interests. With...
View ArticleRaspinamp: It Really Replicates Questionable Activities Involving Llamas
In the late 90s as MP3s and various file sharing platforms became more common, most of us were looking for better players than the default media players that came with our operating systems, if they...
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