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DIY Smart Mirror

DIY Smart Mirror

This guide shows everything I did in order to build my Raspberry Pi Smart Mirror. With the Smart Mirror, I am able to access the weather, time, and news, as well as several other custom modules. I would like to thank Ms. Berbawy and the rest of my Principles of Engineering class at Irvington High […]

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DIY Power Logger Using I2C & Python

Make your own power logger for electronics that you use in the house using INA219 chip, SSD1306 OLED display, Raspberry Pi 3, and Python.   Story The drive for this project was the inspiration from (my opinion) a well known YouTuber, which presents electronics circuits, projects, and electronics basics videos (how capacitors, inductors, MOSFETs, etc.).

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DIY Braille Embosser

This project started when I met Alvino. He is originally from the Bahamas and he was born unable to see. Today Alvino has migrated to Canada where access to braille embossers is subsidized by the government, but still they’re expensive, and repairs are costly. I started to think about building a machine for him to

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DIY Lync Status Light with a RaspberryPi .NET Mono and MQTT

beakn v0.3 : DIY Lync Status Light with a RaspberryPi, .NET, Mono and MQTT

I’m continuing to build out “beakn” my DIY Lync Status light. This is what I’m calling a “maker experience” project. I want to know what a maker goes through to build things so I’m building it with as many different platforms as possible. I’ve built it with Arduino and Netduino. Version 0.1 brought us a

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Cedarville University builds RoboBoat vehicle with 4 Raspberry Pi’s MATLAB and Simulink

Cedarville University builds RoboBoat vehicle with 4 Raspberry Pi’s, MATLAB and Simulink

In Part 1, Sergio described the RoboBoat Competition and introduced our entry, the Cedarville University RoboBoat team. In this article, we will go into depth with regards to how we programmed our autonomous aquatic vehicle’s PC and five Raspberry Pi’s using MATLAB and Simulink. Last year we implemented high level control, image processing and computer

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