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The Musical Instrument Digital Interface has a great acronym that is both nice to say and cleanly descriptive. The standard for talking to musical instruments relies on a serial signal …read more Continue reading You Can Send MIDI Over I2C If You Really Need To
What happens when you mix over 23,000 coffee stirrers and a Raspberry Pi camera together? Probably nothing except for a mess, unless you very specifically pack the plastic straws and …read more Continue reading Coffee Stirrers Act as Lens for This Digital Straw Camera
What did you do for Pi Day? Play with your Raspberry Pi 400? Eat some pizza or other typically round objects and recite all nine digits you’ve got memorized? That’s …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Spigot Puts Digits of Pi on Tap
It’ll be Pi Day when this article goes live, at least for approximately half the globe west of the prime meridian. We always enjoy Pi Day, not least for the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 14, 2021
Here’s a simple tip from [Andy], whose Raspberry Pi projects often travel with him outside the workshop: he suggests adding a small HDMI-to-USB video capture device to one’s Raspberry Pi utility belt. As long as there is a computer around, it provides a simple and configuration-free way to view a …read more
Continue reading Heavy Raspberry Pi User? Keep an HDMI-to-USB Capture Device Around
There are three different versions of the Raspberry Pi 4 out on the market right now: the “normal” Pi 4 Model B, the Compute Module 4, and the just-released Raspberry Pi 400 computer-in-a-keyboard. They’re all riffing on the same tune, but there are enough differences among them that you might …read more
Continue reading Adventures in Overclocking: Which Raspberry Pi 4 Flavor is Fastest?
[Ruchir] has been pretty into robotics for a while now and has always been amused by the ever-popular obstacle avoiding robot, but wanted something that could do more. So, like any good hacker, he decided to build something himself.
He wanted to incorporate all the popular beginner robot capabilities into …read more
Everyone loves a good bubble machine. These oddly satisfying novelty items have brought children and adults mindless entertainment since their inception. [8BitsAndAByte] had the same thought, but wanted to give their bubble machine a taste of the IoT-age.
First, they modified an off-the-shelf bubble machine with a Raspberry Pi and …read more
Even with ten fingers to work with, math can be hard. Microprocessors, with the silicon equivalent of just two fingers, can have an even harder time with calculations, often taking multiple machine cycles to figure out something as simple as pi. And so 40 years ago, Intel decided to give …read more
Continue reading Looking for Pi in the 8087 Math Coprocessor Chip
Got a Pi? Here’s a cool project idea for you… Continue reading Raspberry Pi blasted into space, sends back video of Earth