For American readers of a certain age, Local on the 8s likely holds a special spot in your heart. The program, once a staple of The Weather Channel, would provide viewers with a text and eventually graphical depiction of their local forecast set to some of the greatest smooth jazz ever heard outside of an elevator. In the …
REVERSE ENGINEERING THE WEATHER CHANNEL’S MAGIC Continue Reading
This example demonstrates how to leverage the power of Windows 10 IoT Core, and create a weather station using the Sparkfun weather shield. //build: Hands-on-lab WeatherStation This project is part of Microsoft’s Hack the Home initiative, which provides makers with free, open-source components for effortless interfacing with devices and services that makers use most to hack their …
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As [Luuk Esselbrugge] explains in a recent blog post, his 2002 Volvo S60 had an optional GPS navigation system and backup camera that used a motorized display that would rise out of the dashboard when needed. His particular car didn’t come with the hardware installed, but after getting his hands on a display module and …
RASPBERRY PI TAKES OVER VOLVO’S INTEGRATED LCD Continue Reading
Weather enthusiasts interest in creating their very own Raspberry Pi weather station, may be interested in a new project published to the hackster.io website this week by member “aerodynamics”. The weather station uses a Raspberry Pi Zero mini PC attached to a 7.5 inch e-paper display, running the official Raspberry Pi operating system Raspberry OS. …
This is a E-ink dashboard that provides real-time information pulled from API using a Raspberry Pi Zero. I’ve always been interested in projects that provide you real-time information from selected sources, seeing people doing smart mirror projects made me want to do one for myself, one of the biggest reasons that I ended up doing …
Nice looking weather forecast for Raspberry Pi Zero and Ili9341 based 2.8 inch TFT. I want to show you in this project how to build a nice looking weather station based on Raspberry Pi Zero W for wall mount with weather forecast and coloured 2.8 inch TFT screen. Electronic and Assembly This project based on …
Build a smart mirror that will give you useful information while getting ready in the morning In this project, we will be building a smart mirror that will show you helpful information while you are getting ready in the morning. The whole thing should cost under $80 making it decently affordable for most people. This …
Make Your Own Smart Mirror for Under $80 Using Raspberry Pi Continue Reading
Set up Amazon’s Alexa on a Raspberry Pi with a MATRIX Voice. Use the MATRIX mic array together with a third-party wake word engine. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for setting up AVS on a Raspberry Pi with a MATRIX Voice. It demonstrates how to access and test AVS using our Java sample app (running on a Raspberry …
MATRIX Voice Running Alexa Demo [DEPRECATED] Continue Reading
It’s hurricane season in the northern hemisphere right now, and plenty of news and weather organizations remain dedicated to alerting people if a storm is about to impact their area. There’s no shortage of ways to receive this information, either. We all have our favorite weather app or forecasting site, and there are emergency alerts …
How much would you enjoy a movie that took months to finish? We suppose it would very much depend on the film; the current batch of films from the Star Wars franchise are quite long enough as they are, thanks very much. But a film like Casablanca or 2001: A Space Odyssey might be a very different experience when played on this …
E-PAPER DISPLAY SHOWS MOVIES VERY, VERY SLOWLY Continue Reading
