Your Projects – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:45:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 See what the sounds around you look like with Raspberry Pi Pico https://noise.getoto.net/2021/10/01/see-what-the-sounds-around-you-look-like-with-raspberry-pi-pico/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:45:27 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=76077 Raspberry Pi Pico powers this real-time audio spectrogram visualiser using a digital microphone to pick up the sound and an LCD display to show us what those sounds ‘look’ like. First things first OK firstly, let’s make sure we know what all of those words mean, because ‘audio spectrogram visualiser’ is a bit of a…

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]]> Raspberry Pi helped restore this boat to former glory https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/29/raspberry-pi-helped-restore-this-boat-to-former-glory/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:10:57 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72189 Baltic is a handsome 1962 vintage tugboat that was built in Norway, where she operated until the 1980s. She’s now in English waters, having been registered in Southampton once renovations were complete. After some initial hull restoration work in France she sailed to the western Ligurian coast in Italy, where it took about five years…

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]]> Listen to the weather change with The Sky Vane https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/27/listen-to-the-weather-change-with-the-sky-vane/ Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:44:49 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=75874 The Sky Vane provides the soundtrack to an immersive sky-driven experience. Just lie down on the grass, gaze up at the sky, and listen to the changing soundscape through the day. A Raspberry Pi powers the arresting structure in the middle of the circle of comfy skygazing mats in the photo above, and is connected…

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]]> Automatically tune your guitar with Raspberry Pi Pico https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/21/automatically-tune-your-guitar-with-raspberry-pi-pico/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:55:34 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74579 You sit down with your six-string, ready to bash out that new song you recently mastered, but find you’re out of tune. Redditor u/thataintthis (Guyrandy Jean-Gilles) has taken the pain out of tuning your guitar, so those of us lacking this necessary skill can skip the boring bit and get back to playing. Before you…

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]]> Foot pressure sensors detect Parkinson’s disease https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/15/foot-pressure-sensors-detect-parkinsons-disease/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:25:42 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74415 A team from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University has developed a foot-pressure-sensing insole to detect Parkinson’s disease. Using our tiny computers, they managed to create something discreet that can monitor people as they walk around in their own shoes. What is Parkinson’s disease? Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that mostly affects people aged…

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]]> Save orchards from pests with Raspberry Pi https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/10/save-orchards-from-pests-with-raspberry-pi/ Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:40:45 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74321 Researchers from the University of Trento have developed a Raspberry Pi-powered device that automatically detects pests in fruit orchards so they can get sorted out before they ruin a huge amount of crop. There’s no need for farmer intervention either, saving their time as well as their harvest. The researchers devised an embedded system that…

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]]> Zippy the Raspberry Pi Zero-powered mini Mars Rover https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/08/zippy-the-raspberry-pi-zero-powered-mini-mars-rover/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:28:27 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74274 Maker Mellow was inspired by watching the progress of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover and wanted in on the interplanetary robot scene. Their first idea was to build a scale version of Perseverance, but when their partner stepped in to suggest that starting smaller might be a little easier, Zippy was born. Hardware Raspberry Pi Zero…

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]]> Raspberry Pi displays album art on LED matrix https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/07/raspberry-pi-displays-album-art-on-led-matrix/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:15:28 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74215 We’ve seen a few innovative album art displays using Raspberry Pi, from LEGO minifigures playing their own music to this NFC-powered record player. Redditor u/gonnabuysomewindows was looking for a fun project combining Raspberry Pi and Adafruit’s LED matrix, and has created the latest cool album art display to grace our blog. Hardware Raspberry Pi 3…

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]]> Robotic waiter learning to serve drinks https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/03/robotic-waiter-learning-to-serve-drinks/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:59:25 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74124 The maker of this robotic waiter had almost all of the parts for this project just sat around collecting dust on a shelf. We’re delighted they decided to take the time to pick up the few extra bits they needed online, then take the extra hour (just an hour?!) to write a program in Python…

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]]> Teasmade comes back to life with Raspberry Pi https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/01/teasmade-comes-back-to-life-with-raspberry-pi/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:33:40 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74095 It hurts our aged soul to think how many of you won’t know what a teasmade is. So here is a quick overview of this classic 20th-century technology. Now we will tell you how VEEB brought such a contraption back to life with Raspberry Pi. Yeah, we love the project video as much as you…

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]]> Super 8 camera goes digital with Raspberry Pi https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/27/super-8-camera-goes-digital-with-raspberry-pi/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 08:32:08 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74023 Clem from element14 found a discarded Super 8 camera and wanted to channel his inner filmmaking hipster, but he didn’t want to spend tons of money on analogue film, so he digitised the camera with Raspberry Pi. Clem recreated an original Super 8 cartridge and packed it with tiny hardware to do the job of…

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]]> Raspberry Pi Zero waters your plants and records growth timelapse https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/20/raspberry-pi-zero-waters-your-plants-and-records-growth-timelapse/ Fri, 20 Aug 2021 07:24:05 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=73225 We’re not going to lie — the thing we like most about this automated plant watering project is the timelapse at the very end of the build video. But we also thought now might be a good time to show you another Raspberry Pi project for keeping an eye on your plants, since some of us…

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]]> Deter package thieves from your porch with Raspberry Pi https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/11/deter-package-thieves-from-your-porch-with-raspberry-pi/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:22:42 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=73243 This Raspberry Pi-based build aims to deter porch pirates from stealing packages left at your front door. In recent times, we’ve all relied on home-delivered goods more than ever, and more often than not we ask our delivery drivers to stash our package somewhere if we’re not home, leaving them vulnerable to thieves. Flashing lights,…

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]]> Raspberry Pi ‘WeatherClock’ shows you the hour’s forecast https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/02/raspberry-pi-weatherclock-shows-you-the-hours-forecast/ Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:48:34 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72979 Meet Eli’s WeatherClock, a digital–analogue timepiece that displays the weather at each hour of the day as well as the time. Here’s an example: every day at 3pm, instead of the hour hand just pointing to a number three on the clock’s face, it also points to a visual representation of what the weather is…

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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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]]> Raspberry Pi makes your retro analogue camera digital https://noise.getoto.net/2021/07/28/raspberry-pi-makes-your-retro-analogue-camera-digital/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:48:27 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72822 Befinitiv has built a custom film cartridge, using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, that turned their gorgeous old analogue camera into a digital one, and enabled it to take digital photos, videos, and even wirelessly live stream to the Internet. The analogue camera they used in the build was considered state-of-the-art around fifty years ago,…

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]]> Mega six-screen cyberdeck https://noise.getoto.net/2021/07/20/mega-six-screen-cyberdeck/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:32:47 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72573 Holy cyberdecks! Redditor Holistech (aka Sören Gebbert) really leaned in to the “more is more” idiom when building this big orange cyberdeck using three Raspberry Pis. Why use just one screen to manipulate enemy cyberware and take down your cyberpunk foes, when you can have six? From four to six We first came across Sören’s…

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]]> Charge your Tesla automatically with Raspberry Pi https://noise.getoto.net/2021/07/12/charge-your-tesla-automatically-with-raspberry-pi/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 11:52:19 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72458 It’s the worst feeling in the world: waking up and realising you forgot to put your electric car on charge overnight. What do you do now? Dig a bike out of the shed? Wait four hours until there’s enough juice in the battery to get you where you need to be? Neither option works if…

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]]> Collection of Raspberry Pi retro tech projects https://noise.getoto.net/2021/07/08/collection-of-raspberry-pi-retro-tech-projects/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:25:14 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72378 During lockdown, Stuart (aka JamHamster) wanted to keep busy whilst between jobs, and ended up building a mini empire of rescued retro systems. Cassette tapes, Game Boys, and floppy disks were all among the treasures he reclaimed. Cassette tape starter Stuart got started by fitting a TZXDuino tape loader into a cassette tape shell. Remember…

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]]> HIIT Pi makes Raspberry Pi your home workout buddy https://noise.getoto.net/2021/07/07/hiit-pi-makes-raspberry-pi-your-home-workout-buddy/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:12:01 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72323 Has your fitness suffered during locked down? Have you been able to keep up diligently with your usual running routine? Maybe you found it easy to recreate you regular gym classes in your lounge with YouTube coaches. Or maybe, like a lot of us, you’ve not felt able to do very much at all, and…

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