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PiJuice Zero Raspberry Pi Zero portable project platform available from Crowd Supply

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts searching for a Raspberry Pi Zero board to help with project development stacked with a wealth of features, may be interested to know that the PiJuice Zero bt Pi Supply is in stock on Crowd Supply and priced from $45 with free shipping throughout the US and worldwide shipping available. “When plugged […]

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ALLWINNER H5 POWERED NANOPI NEO2 BLACK SBC FOCUSES ON HEADLESS APPLICATIONS

NanoPi NEO2 also known as NanoPi NEO2-LTS from FriendlyELEC is a small SBC powered by Allwinner H5 SoC with an ARM Mali-450MP GPU. It is intended for server/headless applications with Ethernet & USB ports, as well as I/O headers. FriendlyELEC launched yet another variant called NanoPi NEO2 Black with the same form factor and Allwinenr H5 64-bit Arm SoC. Only upgrading the eMMC flash module and supporting up to

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ROCK OUT WHILE YOU KNOCK OUT GERMS

We don’t know about you, but we’re pretty tired of singing two rounds of “Happy Birthday” or counting Mississippi to 20 each time we wash our hands. It’s difficult to do it without thinking about the reason why, and that’s not good for positivity. If you’d rather have your spirits lifted every time you hit

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RESTORING THE COOLEST LAPTOP EVER

Well-seasoned readers will no doubt remember GRiD laptops, the once and always tacti-cool computers that dominated the military market for decades. GRiDs were the first laptops to go to space, and they were coveted for their sleek (for the time) good looks and reputation as indestructible machines. The GRiDs went through many iterations, and even

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3D PRINTED FLIP CLOCK IS WORTH A SECOND LOOK

Flip clocks: they were cool long before Bill Murray was slapping one repeatedly in Groundhog Day, they were cool in 1993, and they’re still cool now. If you can’t find one on the secondhand market, you’re in luck, because [iz2k] has laid out an extensive blueprint for building a gorgeous retro-looking clock with some modern touches. There’s

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QUALCOMM UNVEILS SNAPDRAGON 855 HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT (HDK)

Snapdragon 855 is a popular, high-end processor that is found in premium smartphones such as Samsung Galaxy S10 or Xiaomi Mi 9. Recently Snapdragon 855 Mobile Hardware Development Kit appeared on Qualcomm developer website. The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 855 mobile hardware development kit (HDK) is a highly integrated and optimized Android development platform designed for technology companies to integrate and innovate mobile device development

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BUILDING A CYBERPUNK MULTI-TOUCH INPUT DEVICE

This multi-touch touch panel built by [thiagesh D] might look like it came from the retro-futuristic worlds of Blade Runner or Alien, but thanks to a detailed build video and a fairly short list of required parts, it could be your next weekend project. The build starts with a sheet of acrylic, which has a grid pattern etched into it

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Hackers in Residence: The Sound Visualizer

Introduction This tutorial shows how to put together a sound visualizer that I created, during my time in the SparkFun HIR program. The end goal for the project was to have a sound reactive LED belt buckle. To accomplish the task of sound visualization, a Raspberry Pi drives and communicates with a Pixel Board over USB.

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Hackers in Residence: The Sound Visualizer Pt. 2

Introduction This guide is a follow up to the first write up I did for my participation in the SparkFun HIR program. This guide shows how to setup a music visualizer for PCs/laptops. It uses an RGB LED panel to display the music visualization. It plays MP3s and is Java powered. This project differs from the first one

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Building Large LED Installations

Introduction While designing the layout for the new SparkFun Emporium, I was given the opportunity to design a large LED art installation. I’ve helped build LED installations before, but had never had the opportunity to design one from the ground up. Thus was born the CandyBar, a 46-foot LED bar consisting of 8 meters of addressable LED strips

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