There are plenty of ways to create timelapse videos, but [Andy] has an efficient method for ensuring up-to-date ones exist for his infrared sky camera, and he has it running thanks to some well-documented shell scripts on a spare Raspberry Pi. The resulting timelapse video is always available from the web, and always up-to-date for the […]
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Doom was a breakthrough game for its time, and became so popular that now it’s essentially the “Banana For Scale” of hardware hacking. Doom has been ported to countless devices, most of which have enough processing ability to run the game natively. Recently, this lineup of Doom-compatible devices expanded to include the NES even though
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You may have noticed, we’re fans of the Raspberry Pi here at Hackaday. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t feature a hack that uses a Pi somewhere in the build. As useful as the Pis are, they aren’t entirely without fault. We’ve talked about the problems with the PoE hat, and multiple articles about keeping SD cards
SHORTING PINS ON A RASPBERRY PI IS A BAD IDEA; PMIC FAILURES UNDER INVESTIGATION Read More »
A Weather station project is a project that gives you information about the weather in a particular area and is quite useful for a lot of things like planning of the day, farming and several others. A weather station project is one of those projects where you can have different types of sensors attached to it.
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If you would like to be notified when letters lands in the mailbox outside your house. You may be interested in this easy to build Raspberry Pi mailbox smartphone notification system created by Martin Hubáček and kindly published to the Hackster.io website. Classed as an easy project, Martin explains the project takes less than two
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A Better Solution The problem with rain sensors lies within how they are engineered. My particular rain sensor works by using absorbent cork discs to detect moisture. When it rains, the discs swell-up with water, depressing a switch which disables the watering. The watering is enabled again when the discs dry-out and contract, releasing the
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The Mouse Air project has been around in various stages since April of 2014. The goal of the project (conceived in a bar, the Fedora in Coeur d’Alene Idaho and named by Sarah, the most excellent bartender there.  And some BlueMoon Beer.) was to be able to detect a cat walking by and fire a mouse.
3D Printing MouseAir V2 – Part 1 / Raspberry Pi Project Read More »
ome time ago, I embarked on a project to control my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine with a Raspberry Pi. Obviously, you can buy a fully automatic “bean to cup” machine… but where’s the fun in that! This project started out with the simple idea of improving the temperature stability, and grew into a more elaborate
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In 2007/8 AMSAT-UK put considerable work into a proposal to the European Space Agency (ESA) to place an Amateur Radio payload on the mass dummy on the maiden flight of the VEGA launcher. Known as iSTAR (Integrated Suite for Teaching and Amateur Radio) it was planned to use the 29, 145, 435, 2400 and 5830
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Scope: To build a Raspberry Pi powered video camera, capable of streaming over a home wireless network. BOM: – Raspberry Pi (With Raspbian OS) – RPi compatible Wifi Dongle (List here) – Camera Module (Here) – Wifi enabled PC with VLC media player Instructions: Connect the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to the CSI connector located
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