A computer’s BIOS includes basic diagnostic tools for troubleshooting issues. Often, we rely on the familiar beeps from the POST system for this reason. However, error codes are also available via hardware “POST Cards” that were particularly popular in the 1990s. [Mr. Green] has now built a POST card using readily-available modern hardware. [Mr. Green] built […]
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If you have any astronomer friends you’ll soon discover that theirs is a world of specialist high-quality optical equipment far ahead of the everyday tinkerer, and for mere mortals the dream of those amazing deep space images remains out of reach. It’s not completely impossible for the night sky to deliver impressive imagery on a
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has this month made available the latest addition of the fantastic MagPi magazine. With this months issue featuring details on how you can build your own robotic projects using Python. Create your own robots with arms and legs using servo motors or learn how to set up nature camera traps to capture the wildlife
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It’s pretty easy to program the Raspberry Pi Pico in Python, or you can use C or C++ if you so desire. However, if you fancy the easy language of yesteryear, you might like PiccoloBASIC from [Gary Sims]. Putting it simply, piccoloBASIC is a BASIC interpreter that runs on the Raspberry Pi Pico. It features all
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During the time in the 1980s when the personal computer was gaining steam as a household fixture, plenty of models shipped with the keyboard built in to the machine itself. This helped reduce costs, lower the physical footprint of the device, and arguably improved aesthetics. But as technology progressed, this type of design fell by
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Raspberry Pi enthusiasts or those of you that have been able to get your hands-on a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC. Might be interested in this unique desktop style case designed by the engineers at SunFounder in the form of the Pironman Raspberry Pi 4 case. As you can see from the images, the style is a
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If you are interested in learning more about the production of Raspberry Pi mini PC computers and how they are mass produced. You are sure to enjoy a new video published by Jeff Geerling who recently enjoyed a tour of the Sony facility in Wales in the United Kingdom. Sony and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have partnered
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You decide to build a clock. The first thing you have you determine if it is going to be digital or analog. Or is it? If you build [Ivanek240267]’s clock, you can have both. The digital portion uses an OLED display. The analog portion contains two rings of smart LEDs. The WiFi configuration is always
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What’s the best kind of upgrade a piece of consumer technology can get? A free one that doesn’t require you to do anything other than accept a new version of the software it’s running. That’s precisely what every current (and future) owner of the Raspberry Pi Pico W just got with the addition of Bluetooth support
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When building autonomous airborne vehicles like drones or UAVs, saving a little bit of weight goes a long way, literally. Every gram saved means less energy needed to keep the aircraft aloft and ultimately more time in the air, but unmanned vehicles often need to compromise some on weight in order to carry increased computing
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