The Raspberry Pi is an amazing low-cost computer. Unlike the ever-popular Arduino microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi was designed to be a full-blown computer from the start. It can run various flavors of Linux/Unix, act as a Media Center, and even moonlight as a Microcontroller. First Impressions This review covers 5 of the most popular Raspberry […]
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Welcome! rSense “Makashitakun” is the automated vegetable cultivation system which is built up with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Arduino is used for collecting sensors data and handling actuators. Raspberry Pi is used for controller which manage all Arduino units to work properly and hooked up to the internet in order to manage from anywhere in
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Refrigeration and air conditioning devices consume ~25% of all electricity generated on our planet! From small business owners to franchised restaurant chains to medical facilities the initial, operating, and maintenance costs of refrigeration and air conditioning units can be quite staggering. The biggest factors contributing to power consumption are: Temperature difference between ambient and cooled
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We bought a home with a pool. The first couple of weeks we made several costly mistakes including using the heater to heat the entire pool over 90 degrees. I think we paid $250 for gas that month. We also accidentally drained the spa into the pool. The solar water heater did have an automation
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Do you enjoy the many benefits of cloud services but do you also like to be in full control of your own data? Maybe you are worried about privacy or maybe you just want a little more flexibility. In my case I wanted to have a redundant storage drive for 100’s of gigabytes of footage
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The popular and inexpensive Raspberry Pi1) tiny PC offers some interesting I/O like I2C and GPIO. Because the I2C bus is a common and standard one, the idea to use it for Model Railway automation was born in 2013. Together with Peter Giling, who lives in the Netherlands, we have developed a range of modules
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In late March I went to a hackathon at Universal Studios. We created a system where guests could bypass the queue line by completing a series of tasks that would lead them around the land the ride is in where the average completion time was 66% of the current ride wait time. This system pulls
IBeacon Entry System with the Raspberry Pi and Azure Read More »
This is an Instructable which describes the process of making an animation from Openclipart’s SVG. Openclipart library is a collection of 100% license-free art that you can use for any purpose. I will explain this Instructable for the Raspberry Pi user. If you are a Macintosh or Ubuntu user, download the following software. Macintosh 9va-mac
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Goal Installing RetroPie through Raspberry Pi’s OS (Raspbian) and also enabling Playstation 1 Emulator in RetroPie. I’ll also teach you how to write images on your Mac or Windows PC as well (no worries :D). This tutorial is for Raspberry Pi 2 B+ Models. Any Raspberry Pi before this is a lot easier to just
I received my Raspberry Pi and decided I needed a case. I didn’t have much available to me in terms of laser cutters, 3D printers or woodwork skills etc. so I thought laterally. I’d previously had the idea of using the Pi as an emulator so I thought, “why wouldn’t a Pi fit in a Mega Drive case?”.
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