raspberry pi 3 – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:25:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Recycle your old Raspberry Pi boards with OKdo https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/23/recycle-your-old-raspberry-pi-boards-with-okdo/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:25:10 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=73949 Ever wondered what to do with Raspberry Pi boards you haven’t used in a while? Do you tend to upgrade your projects to newer models, leaving previous ones languishing at the back of a drawer? There are a lot of venerable Raspberry Pis out there doing useful stuff just as well as ever, and we…

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]]> Raspberry Pi powers weather station in Nepal https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/02/raspberry-pi-powers-weather-station-in-nepal/ Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:47:17 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=73060 This Raspberry Pi-powered weather station is a vital tool for Nepalese farmers, who work in remote, changeable conditions, and rely heavily on monitoring the environment. It’s hard to forecast the weather in Nepal. Conditions can vary a lot within a small area because the country is so mountainous. Plus, there is no national weather service.…

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]]> Make your bike smart with Raspberry Pi https://noise.getoto.net/2021/06/25/make-your-bike-smart-with-raspberry-pi/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:21:00 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72004 Maker keanuDav was always forgetting to turn on his bike lights when riding out in the dark. He also never knew how fast he was going, or how long his rides were. So he created a shareable smart bike that automatically turns the lights on or off and keeps track of where you’ve ridden. The…

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]]> Raspberry Pi R2D2 console (plus tons of other Star Wars projects) https://noise.getoto.net/2021/06/21/raspberry-pi-r2d2-console-plus-tons-of-other-star-wars-projects/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:07:50 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=71814 Diehard Nintendo and Star Wars fan electrouser301 is behind this customised R2D2 Raspberry Pi-powered console. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is its brain, and a Nintendo GameCube was customised with spray paint and hand-cut stencils. Unleash your inner child Telling the story of the build, electrouser301 said: “When I saw what people were doing with…

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]]> Raspberry Pi LEGO sorter https://noise.getoto.net/2021/01/19/raspberry-pi-lego-sorter/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:59:07 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=67027 Raspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI–powered, automated sorting machine that is capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick. And its maker Daniel West believes it to be the first of its kind in the world! Best ever This mega-machine was two years in the making and is a LEGO creation itself,…

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]]> Raspberry Pi ‘Swear Bear’ keeps your potty mouth in check https://noise.getoto.net/2021/01/04/raspberry-pi-swear-bear-keeps-your-potty-mouth-in-check/ Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:40:19 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=65849 Why use a regular swear jar to retrain your potty-mouthed brain when you can build a Swear Bear to help you instead? Swear Bear listens to you. All the time. And Swear Bear can tell when a swear word is used. Swear Bear tells you off and saves all the swear words you said to…

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]]> Turn a watermelon into a RetroPie games console https://noise.getoto.net/2020/09/10/turn-a-watermelon-into-a-retropie-games-console/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:54:34 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=62959 OK Cedrick, we don’t need to know why, but we have to know how you turned a watermelon into a games console. This has got to be a world first. What started out as a regular RetroPie project has blown up reddit due to the unusual choice of casing for the games console: nearly 50,000…

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]]> Raspberry Pi retro player https://noise.getoto.net/2020/09/02/raspberry-pi-retro-player/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:42:03 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=62789 We found this project at TeCoEd and we loved the combination of an OLED display housed inside a retro Argus slide viewer. It uses a Raspberry Pi 3 with Python and OpenCV to pull out single frames from a video and write them to the display in real time.​ TeCoEd names this creation the Raspberry…

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