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RetroPie Cyberdeck | HackSpace #47

Ben Everard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:01:25 +0000

You know we love a good cyberdeck around here, and we think you’ll love this video game emulator fresh from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, out now. We’ve only just finished printing a series on building a games cabinet using the RetroPie games emulator on a Raspberry Pi… and now something comes along that…

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Meet Anna Ploszajski: Where making and materials meet

Andrew Gregory — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:32:32 +0000

In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Andrew Gregory meets Anna Ploszajski to explore the bit of the Venn diagram where making and materials meet. Anna Ploszajski (pronounced Por-shy-ski) is a cross-channel swimmer, a materials scientist, a writer, and a breaker-down of barriers to scientific understanding. 50% of the HackSpace editorial team listen to her podcast,…

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Add 57,600 pixels to your Raspberry Pi Pico

Ben Everard — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:37:52 +0000

In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Ben Everard tests whether a bit of kit from Spotpear can turn Raspberry Pi Pico into a games machine. The snappily named Raspberry Pi Pico display 1.54-inch LCD by Spotpear ($11.89) brings in a 240×240 pixel IPS screen and ten buttons in a joypad-like arrangement. There’s four for…

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Meet Laura Kampf: Wood and metalworker

Alex Bate — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 07:58:51 +0000

Laura Kampf, the Köln-based wood and metalworker with a mild tiny house and Leatherman obsession sat down (virtually) with Alex Bate to talk about prison tattoo machines, avoiding your nightmares, and why aggressive hip-hop and horror movies inspire her weekly project builds. Smudo the workshop dog was also there, which seems to be becoming a…

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Archimedes the AI robot | HackSpace #45

Ashley Whittaker — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:14:58 +0000

When we saw Alex Glow’s name in the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, we just had to share their project. HackSpace #45 celebrates the best Raspberry Pi builds of all time, and we remembered spotting Alex’s wearable robotic owl familiar back in the day. For those of you yet to have had the pleasure, meet…

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Make an animated sign with Raspberry Pi Pico

Andrew Gregory — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:27:23 +0000

Light up your living room like Piccadilly Circus with this Raspberry Pi Pico project from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine. Don’t forget, it’s not too late to get your hands on our new microcontroller for FREE if you subscribe to HackSpace magazine. HUB75 LED panels provide an affordable way to add graphical output to…

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NeoPixel dithering with Pico

Ben Everard — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:51:10 +0000

In the extra special Raspberry Pi Pico launch issue of HackSpace magazine, editor Ben Everard shows you how to get extra levels of brightness out of your LEDs with our new board. WS2812B LEDs, commonly known as NeoPixels, are cheap and widely available LEDs. They have red, green, and blue LEDs in a single package…

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Add face recognition with Raspberry Pi | Hackspace 38

Andrew Gregory — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:52:21 +0000

It’s hard to comprehend how far machine learning has come in the past few years. You can now use a sub-£50 computer to reliably recognise someone’s face with surprising accuracy. Although this kind of computing power is normally out of reach of microcontrollers, adding a Raspberry Pi computer to your project with the new High…

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Read RFID and NFC tokens with Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 37

Andrew Gregory — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:53:43 +0000

Add a bit of security to your project or make things selectableby using different cards. In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, PJ Evans goes contactless. NFC (near-field communication) is based on the RFID (radio-frequency identification) standard. Both allow a device to receive data from a passive token or tag (meaning it doesn’t require external…

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Talk to your Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 36

Andrew Gregory — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:28:46 +0000

In the latest issue of HackSpace Magazine, out now, @MrPJEvans shows you how to add voice commands to your projects with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a microphone. You’ll need: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (earlier models will work too) Seeed ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array Google account It’s amazing how we’ve come from everything being keyboard-based…

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Build an arcade cabinet | Hackspace 35

Ben Everard — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:30:58 +0000

Games consoles might be fast and have great graphics, but they’re no match for the entertainment value of a proper arcade machine. In this month’s issue of Hackspace magazine, you’re invited to relive your misspent youth with this huge build project. There’s something special about the comforting solidity of a coin-eating video game monolith, and…

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