The MonkMakes Sensor Board for micro:bit allows you to sense sound level, temperature and light level. Features 3V and GND connections can be made from either side and allow you to power a second board such as the MonkMakes Relay Board or MonkMakes Speaker. LED ‘power on’ indicator Reverse polarity protection All three sensors are analog […]
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Objective The goal of our project is to use the Raspberry Pi and create a touchscreen enabled Heads Up Display (HUD) for an automobile. The HUD would display useful, real time information through an easy-to-ready GUI onto a PiTFT screen. Some example information includes the automobile’s speed, acceleration, cabin temperature, and engine RPM etc. We
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Introduction Health is always an important concern. However, the health of modern people is always interfered by various potential but dangerous factors, such as high blood pressure, and abnormal heart rate. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, increases the burden of the heart to pump blood circulation in the blood vessels. Hypertension is one of
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Ever wished to know the temperature on your way to breakfast after waking up in the morning? Now you can find it out in a fascinating way as Lorraine Underwood at The MagPi magazine designed a temperature controlled colorful stair lights system with raspberry pi. In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss that project. Required Parts Strip of
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Background After recently receiving my Amazon Echo I’ve been itching to build something for it, so this competition came at just the right time! I did manage to get a skill published which assists in getting your AWS DevOps Professional Certification by asking you sample questions (available at http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#skills/dp/B01HCJSXKK/?ref=skill_dsk_skb_sr_0 if you have an echo), but
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Introduction Indoor gardening is a great hobby, particularly during the wintertime when outdoor conditions are frigid, and we’re spending plenty of time indoors. It also can be a useful way to inexpensively prepare plants for the Spring, as a package of seeds are a fraction of the cost of a tray of plants. Plants give
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Story This project uses the Adafruit Starter Pack for Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi kit components to create a project that uses a sensor to read the temperature, barometric pressure, humidity and altitude. This works just fine with either the older Raspberry Pi 2 kit or the newer version with the Raspberry Pi
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Story Earlier this year, we showcased our Raspberry Pi Future Home, a fully connected LEGO smart house model with LEDs, weather sensors, and a realtime control dashboard. And now, we’ll show you exactly how to build one (and give you all the code you need as well!). We promised that we’d dig deeper into the individual
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My inspiration I love cooking and always wanted to have my own garden with different herbs. But there was one issue: I always screw up my plants. Tried many times – same result. They die faster than I realize I need to water them. So I started to think – how can I automate this
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The Idea Over the last summer my sons and I rebuilt our entire pool system. It started with a problem with the water lines and valves that we inherited when we got the house, filter issues and a basically inept pool company that was a holdover from when we got the house. Once it started
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