If you live in town and you are looking for an electric vehicle for commuting, you could choose a hybrid car, an electric bike or why not… an electric skateboard that zooms around town at 30kmph (19mph)! The brain is the £5 Raspberry Pi Zero, while your speed is controlled by a Nintendo Wii Remote over Bluetooth….
After few years from the successfull low-cost LittleRP 3d Printer, Brad Hill decided to upgrade his resin printer. The new model LittleRP2 introduces a configurable vat, an extended height option, additional controller shield options, added projector compatibility, and more new features and refinements. LittleRP2 is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 or greater license,…
“This new app store is much more than an easy way for Orange Pi owners to find and install great applications. Orange Pi is a powerful set of tools for developers enabling them to go much faster from development to production with CI integration, cross-platform building and beta distribution. As long as you have dreams,…
The BeagleBone Blue from BeagleBoard.org is a credit-card sized board with all the components needed to operate a robot or even a drone. It is open source, as its schematics have been published, and developers can replicate the board. It has the components and software package needed to build medium-sized or small robots. It includes servo motors, electronic speed…
This VERSE Technology’s new product is an Arduino-friendly development board. It can be programmed using the Arduino IDE as well as Atmel Studio. It has powerful wireless capabilities and broad compatibility with industrial protocols like RS-485 GOBLIN 2 features an ATmega328P MCU and SIM5320A module at its core, providing dual-band HSDPA and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, along…
Gesture keyboard is a library used to convert accelerometer data to a sequence of characters and sentences. Federico Terzi build a module using an Arduino Pro Micro, a MPU-6050 as accelerometer and a HC-06 Bluetooth module for sending signals to his laptop. A Python library using Scikit-learn’s SVM (Support Vector Machine) algorithm then translates the motion…
Anyone interested in photography will appreciate this Kickstarter campaign, most of all if you enjoy capturing time lapse motion photography of products, landscapes or subjects by keeping their videos engaging using timed movement. A Time Slider is a time lapse motion and camera control system with modular tracks. It’s Open-Source, modular and portable so it…
If you daily spend a lot of time in front of a mirror, I think you could appreciate this mirror’s features: Helps you pick clothes Record videos Voice or Smartphone controlled In my opinion the most exciting feature is the virtual wardrobe. Using a built-in Raspberry Pi camera, you can photograph yourself and create a…
First of all you need a webcam UVC compliant as this Logitech* C270 Webcam with HD 720P resolution and 2.4 GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor. The webcam plugs into the USB port of Intel® Edison development board which turns it into an IP webcam streaming video to a website. Using the webcam with the…
The maker Conor O’Callaghan dediced to use his Raspberry Pi 2B with a 7-inch display to make a home dashboard to show some useful information: Current temperature and weather forecast in his area Next buses due at the local bus stops The news headlines The Tube status His fuzzed location (e.g., at work, traveling) He wrote…
Common problems when using single board computers like Raspberry Pi are how to power it reliably or how to mount it robustly. These problems become more challenging when peripherals and expansion hardware such as HATs and USB are used and/or when using more than one Raspberry Pi at once. BitScope Blade solves these problems making…
Enyone who wants to create projects or control projects by using voice recognition, may be interested in a new open source voice recognition platform called Matrix Voice, on Indiegono now. The voice recognition platform consists of a small development board which measures 3.4 inches in diameter and is equipped with a radial array of…
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