Google’s brand new cross-platform UI toolkit, Flutter, has been shown working with the Raspberry Pi hardware, no less, as a proof of concept for its porting. On Tuesday,Google officially launched version 1.0 of Flutter, a toolkit for creating embedded graphic components that works with both iOS and Android from a single codebase. By creating native ARM code, […]
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Introduction This quick tutorial aims to show you the steps required to set up the pcDuino WiFi Dongle with everyone’s favorite fiberglass-flavored development board: the Raspberry Pi (model B or model A). This WiFi dongle is a cheap solution to adding network connectivity to your Pi, if you don’t have Ethernet nearby. It’s easy to set up, once
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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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Introduction Note: This tutorial was originally written for the FLiR Lepton [KIT-13233]. However, the FLiR Lepton 2.5 with Radiometry should function the same. When our team found out that we’d be testing a Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) camera, there were two words that we couldn’t stop saying: Predator Vision. That’s right, we were finally going to
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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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Introduction This tutorial is designed to give you a basic understanding of SD Cards and how to write different images to the SD card of your choice. SD cards, short for Secure Digital, are everywhere you look now, from digital cameras, to phones and tablets, and even Single Board Computers (SBCs). In many cases your SBC
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The official Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced the availability of issue 76 of the official Raspberry Pi magazine aptly named MagPi. This month’s edition features a new Raspberry Pi superguide to take you through everything you need to know about the awesome mini PC from setting it up to creating your first projects. “Whether
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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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3 min read Italian companies have designed Strato Pi, a Raspberry Pi based board intended to be used in industrial applications. It can be used in areas where a higher level of reliability is required. Strato Pi features The board is roughly the same size of Regular Raspberry Pi 2/3 and is engineered to work in an industrial environment that
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Introduction The preassembled 40-pin Pi Wedge is the newest member in our Pi Wedge family. It’s an excellent way to get those pesky Pi pins broken out to a breadboard so that they can easily be used. The Pi Wedge in a breadboard This Pi Wedge is compatible with members of the Pi family with 40-pin
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