Story The goal of this project was to create a set of robotic tanks to do battle where the operators got a more realistic feel for controlling the vehicles using the Leap Motion controller. I wanted to create the robot tanks inexpensively, so people could replicate the project as easily as possible. The tank body […]
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Story After last week’s Pi Zero mod, I thought I’d try a slightly more useful project. Using an Adafruit OLED display, two push buttons, a wifi dongle and a Pi Zero, I made an internet connected information display. The information could be anything: time and date, weather, social media status, etc … The two push
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Introduction There are many tutorials showing you how to control a robot using WiFi or Bluetooth with a phone or tablet. The problem is you cannot maneuver fast enough because you have to look at the screen and the robot. With this setup, you can control your robot with a real long range AM wireless
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About this project PiDoorBell is a smart doorbell powered by RaspBerry Pi model B. PiDoorBell integrates a camera that takes a photo to the person that came to see you. At this point, if you are not at home PiDoorBell connects to the internet and sends you the picture just taken to your smartphone using
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This is a fun project that shows how to control a smart light bulb (Yeelight Blue) that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to change its color with Raspberry Pi! bulb recently at a local store and was intrigued by its Bluetooth-based control and relatively low price (for a ‘smart’ gadget at least). Because the light
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The PNP transistor is a mystery to many. But it doesn’t have to be. If you want to design circuits with transistors, it’s really worth knowing about this type of transistor. For example: Want to automatically turn on a light when it gets dark? The PNP transistor will make this easy for you. In my
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Update 2016-08-23: The project is now verified successfully on Raspberry Pi 3 on the Windows IoT Core build 10.0.14393.0. Update: Now there is a NuGet package to download for Visual Studio 2015: Emmellsoft.IoT.RPi.SenseHat This project was about to make the Raspberry Pi “Sense HAT” working on the Windows IoT platform. I had some initial help from Graham
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Hardware components: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B × 1 Speaker × 1 Ultrasonic Sensor × 1 Photodiode × 2 IR LED × 2 Resistor 1k ohm × 18 Resistor 10k ohm × 2 Resistor 100 ohm × 1 Single Turn Potentiometer- 10k ohms × 2 PCB × 1 LED Blue × 12 IC LM324SN ×
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Hardware components: Nabaztag Not sold anymore, but maybe on Graigslist or eBay? × 1 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B × 1 Google AIY Voice HAT They come as a free gift with The MagPi #57, or you can subscribe to get a notification when they are for sale later on. × 1 SK6812 RGBW LED
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Hardware components: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B × 1 Walabot × 1 Unitek USB3.0 4-Port Hub × 1 Power Sonic Model PS-640 F1 6 Volt 4.5 AmpHr Battery Supply × 1 Servo (generic) Personally modified Futaba S3003 for continuous rotation. If using a different brand of servo research the number of spline teeth for your
