Recently, we’ve stumbled upon the extensive effort that is the BirdNET research platform. BirdNET uses a neural network to identify birds by the sounds they make, and is a joint project between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Chemnitz University of Technology. What strikes us is – this project is impressively featureful and accessible for […]
NEURAL NETWORK IDENTIFIES BIRD CALLS, EVEN ON YOUR PI Read More »
The joke was when the Nintendo 64 first hit the streets around a quarter century ago, that the 64 in the name referred not to the technology on board, but to the excessive cost of the cartridges. Whatever the truth in that, it’s something now completely laid to rest by [Konrad Beckmann] with his Nintendo 64
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Raspberry Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling has released a second part in the series about the creation of a huge Raspberry Pi NAS 60 HDD 1.2 Petabytes storage system and how you is now found a way to make all the hard drives run in a RAID configuration. Pi enthusiasts looking to build their very own Raspberry Pi
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If there’s one thing that never seems to suffer from supply chain problems, it’s litter. It’s everywhere, easy to spot and — you’d think — pick up. Sadly, most of us seem to treat litter as somebody else’s problem, but with something like this machine vision litter mapper, you can at least be part of the
MACHINE LEARNING DOES ITS CIVIC DUTY BY SPOTTING ROADSIDE LITTER Read More »
If you’re one of those people who got into building electronics for the purpose of making music, then this Raspberry Pi RP2040-based audio DSP project by [DatanoiseTV] might be of interest. Provided is a FreeRTOS template application for creating Eurorack compatible synthesizers, effects processors, and similar DSP-based audio widgets. The hardware platform has the usual Eurorack connectivity, including MIDI
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If you’ve laid hands on a retro analog TV, have the restoration bug, and you plan to make the final project at least somewhat period-correct, you face a bit of a conundrum: what are you going to watch? Sure, you can serve up just about any content digitally these days, but some programs just don’t
RASPBERRY PI SIMULATES THE REAL ANALOG TV EXPERIENCE Read More »
It would appear that, sometimes, miracles happen. A few days ago, an update graced the website of Insteon, a company whose abrupt shuttering we covered in detail two months ago. An entity described as “small group of passionate Insteon users” has bought what was left of the company, and is working on getting the infrastructure back up. Previously, there
INSTEON GETS ANOTHER CHANCE Read More »
The ANAVI Info uHAT is a mini OLED display complete with buttons and slots for sensors specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi. Providing a low-cost open source Raspberry Pi add-on board with a resolution of of 128 x 64 individual white OLEDÂ pixels. ANAVI Info uHAT works with any Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBC) with
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This project adds a whole new element to revitalizing retro hardware with a Raspberry Pi. If you’re looking for a fun way to tweet with a Raspberry Pi and have an affinity for old-school hardware, look no further than this clever Psion 5MX-driven Pi project created by maker and developer Kian Ryan. Using a serial connection and a little
Retro Psion 5MX PDA Tweets Via Raspberry Pi Zero Read More »
It’s almost hard to believe these days, what with modern game consoles packing terabytes of internal storage, but there was a time when the totality of your gaming career would be stored on an external memory card that held just a few megabytes of save data. Of course, before that you had to write down
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