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How to add a RetroPie Raspberry Pi to a Arcade1UP arcade cabinet

In a recent tutorial, a Raspberry Pi enthusiast and tech-savvy YouTuber ETA Prime demonstrated how to transform an Arcade1UP cabinet into a Raspberry Pi arcade cabinet. This innovative process involves installing a Raspberry Pi, compact computer, inside the arcade cabinet. The project has used affordable USB encoders and buttons to keep the overall cost low, making […]

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SOLAR POWER YOUR PI

Running a Raspberry Pi with solar power sounds easy. Of course, like most things, the details are what get you. About a year ago, [Bystroushaa] tried it without success. But the second time turned out to be the charm. Of course, success is a relative term. It does work, but there is concern that it won’t

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Hacking an IKEA Air Sensor

Using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to connect an IKEA air quality sensor to the internet. Sometimes ordinary products can use a small upgrade in the form of a hack. Plus, adding a new feature can make the product more useful as well as add a bit of personalization to the device. That is exactly

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Raspberry Pi Dashboard Rig Adds Retro Gaming to Car

The Raspberry Pi is a notoriously small SBC and half the fun of looking through hundreds of Pi projects is finding cool places people manage to hide them. Today we’ve got a neat project to share from a maker known as Cubey125 over at Reddit. Cubey125 has put a Raspberry Pi inside the dashboard of their Nissan 370Z and

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A MODERN REPLACEMENT FOR THE ZX SPECTRUM’S ODD TAPE STORAGE SYSTEM

Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any home computer in the 1980s. ZX Spectrum users, however, had another option in the form of the Microdrive. This was a rather unusual continuous-loop mini-tape

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AI-Controlled Raspberry Pi Pico Lamp for Perfect Ambiance

Playing around with RGB color lamps can be fun, but choosing the right color can be a time-consuming process. Imagine if you could automate this task using the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. Well, maker and developer Scarlet Lee has done just that with an AI-controlled Raspberry Pi Pico lamp that uses Chat GPT to help

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Raspberry Pi Tracks Planes With ADS-B Receiver

The Raspberry Pi is a great tool for all sorts of hobbies and one area we’re fascinated by is its integration into the world of aviation. Today we’re sharing a cool project put together by a maker known as _G4M3R_ over at Reddit. Using our favorite SBC, they’ve created a cheap ADS-B receiver that’s housed in their attic and

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GOOGLE NEST MINI GUTTED AND REBUILT TO RUN CUSTOM AGENTS

The Google Nest Mini is a popular smart speaker, but it’s very much a cloud-based Big Tech solution. For those that want to roll their own voice assistant, or just get avoid the corporate surveillance of it all, [Justin Alvey’s] work may appeal. (Nitter) [Justin] pulled apart a Nest Mini, ripped out the original PCB, and

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AN EASY Z80 AND VGA UPGRADE FOR THE APPLE II

The Apple II was at the forefront of the home computer revolution when it came out in 1977. In its era, nobody really cared about hooking up the Apple II to a VGA monitor, but these days, it’s far easier than sourcing an original monitor. The V2 Analog is a useful tool that will let you do

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ADAPTER BOARD EXPANDS THE PI ZERO

The standard Raspberry Pi computers have been in short supply for a while now, so much so that people are going to great lengths to find replacements. Whether it’s migrating to alternative single-board computers or finding clones of the Pi that are “close enough”, there are solutions out there. This method of building a full-size Raspberry

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