I wanted to attach a knob to my Raspberry Pi to act as a volume control for my MPD based jukebox. Traditionally volume control devices are implemented with potentiometers acting as inputs for amplifiers. A potentiometer is a hardware device with a knob or a slider that, in a word allows for a variable voltage […]
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<The Instructable and the code are ready. Enjoy! Leave a comment with you feedback!> I’m @RedPhantom (aka LiquidCrystalDisplay / Itay), a 14 years old student from Israel learning in the Max Shein Junior High School for Advanced Science and Mathematics. I’m making this project for everyone to learn from and share! You may have thought
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Neon is the name we gave to the open/closed sign we have at the entrance of our makerspace. This sign is not only an open/closed sign but it does a whole lot of things. At the makerspace we currently have access keys so this lets our members know whether we are open or closed by
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Hey Everyone! I’m 13, and I was inspired by online projects and cool computer builds to see if I could build a laptop. This may not be the greatest tutorial ever, but this laptop has 512 mb of ram, a 1ghz processor, with wifi, around 4 gb of space. but it’s only 160! Step 1:
Netbook Laptop Build for $ 160 – Raspberry Pi Powered. Read More »
This project is about using Raspberry pi with USB microphone and Speaker for interactive answering machine. We are calling it Talking Ganesha. In Hindu Culture , God Ganesha is called as God of Knowledge. We have created this project just to create Talking Ganesha in Ganesh Festival. We have used Google Speech API for converting
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Create your first connected light using Raspberry Pi. Control and monitor a connected light from mobile, tablet and desktop using Lelylan & MQTT. It takes 15 minutes | $36 (eth) or $44 (WiFi) in hardware | basic level. Step 1: Hardware For this tutorial you need a Raspberry Pi connected to the Internet, either via
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I’ve been fascinated with LED cubes for a while now, but haven’t been able to bring myself to build an Arduino-based cube. They turn on quickly and nicely, yes, but writing the code is a horrible mess of bits and bytes. The Raspberry Pi’s Python-based GPIO interface was much more appealing (and readable) to me,
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Here is a small mod I made for an OPTI-UPS VS575C. The ups has a serial port and works well with Windows, along with a serial to USB adapter and the Opti-UPS ‘Sentry’ software, the UPS can tell Windows when it has switched to battery mode on an AC power failure. This allows Windows to
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This is a guide for making a portable handheld retropie system. this is only a guide, this is not really a detailed step by step how-to, although you will see how easy(or hard) it can be. this assumes you are not a beginner and you know how to do things like load a disk image
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Very simple and cheap Infra-Red night vision googles, using a model A raspberry pi, a NOIR camera and Quanum FPV Goggles. For a while now I have been playing with Multicopters, and whilst I prefer to make the models myself and fly them properly with a transmitter, I couldn’t help being interested in First person
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