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Ultimate Youtube Live Camera
Use a Raspberry Pi to stream directly to Youtube Live with the touch of a button!
by Daniel Davis
This is for all of you Youtube Live streaming fans out there! It's a dedicated Youtube live streaming camera! Just turn it on, click "stream", and watch it live stream! It uses a Raspberry Pi as the brains, a Raspicam as the vision, and an Adafruit 2.8" touchscreen as the interface.
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All About Arduino Libraries
How to install and use Arduino Libraries
by Bill Earl
This guide takes you step-by-step through the process of installing Arduino libraries on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux platforms.
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Haunted Portrait
Make a spooky digital portrait come to life with a Raspberry Pi Zero image player
by John Park
You can frame an LCD panel and mount it vertically to create a spooky, digital portrait, that seems to have an afterlife of it's own, as the eyes subtly move or the expression changes. This digital picture frame is easy to set up, and fun to use to haunt your friends and unsuspecting guests.
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CircuitPython Basics: I2C and SPI
Learn how to talk to I2C and SPI devices with CircuitPython!
by Tony DiCola
Learn about common serial protocols for talking to hardware like sensors, actuators, and more. This guide shows how to use the I2C and SPI protocols in CircuitPython to read two temperature sensors.
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AdaBox 005
Explore and use the contents of your AdaBox 005
by Tyler Cooper
You've consumed four AdaBoxes - the equivalent of a delicious, nutritious meal of DIY electronics. And now it's time for dessert. Pour yourself some coffee (or a nice cold glass of milk) because it is finally time for Raspberry Pi.
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Adafruit APDS9960 breakout
Digital Proximity, Ambient Light, RGB, and Gesture Sensor
by Dean Miller
This handy sensor is full of features! Add basic gesture sensing, RGB color sensing, proximity sensing, or ambient light sensing to your project with the Adafruit APDS9960 Proximity, Light, RGB and Gesture Sensor.
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Adafruit Motor Shield
Control servos, steppers and DC motors with an Arduino!
by lady ada
Arduino is a great starting point for electronics, and with a motor shield it can also be a nice tidy platform for robotics and mechatronics. Here is a design for a full-featured motor shield that will be able to power many simple to medium-complexity projects. Build the kit, and learn how to use it with these detailed instructions.
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DIY Projector for the Nintendo Switch
Project Nintendo Switch gameplay to just about any surface!
by Ruiz Brothers
In this project, we’ll show you how to DIY your own Portable Projector for the Nintendo Switch1
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Mini Pinball Table with Gemma M0
Use CircuitPython and the Gemma M0 to control iPad pinball built into an extruded aluminum mini table!
by John Park
You can wire arcade buttons to the Gemma M0 which can be programmed in CircuitPython as a USB HID device (emulating keyboard strokes) to control any iCade compatible game on iOS! Plus, you can build your own stylish, rugged mini table using slotted aluminum extrusions and hardware! And, no soldering is required, just plug and play!
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TMP36 Temperature Sensor
Reading temperatures to 0.1 degree precision!
by lady ada
An analog temperature sensor is pretty easy to explain, its a chip that tells you what the ambient temperature is. This guide will show you how an analog temperature sensor works, how to wire one up, and some project examples.
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CircuitPython Basics: Analog Inputs & Outputs
Learn how to control analog, or continuous voltage, values with CircuitPython!
by Tony DiCola
Learn about analog signals and how they differ from digital signals, how to read them with analog to digital converters, and how to generate them with digital to analog converters and pulse-width modulation!
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Micro:Bit Puppet "Text Message" System!
Build a simple & silly radio communication system with the Micro:Bit!
by Jen Fox
Build and code a radio communication system that notifies you of incoming messages, for example via automated puppet, and then displays the message on the Micro:Bit LED screen. No prior experience coding or using hardware is necessary. But! As this project involves communication (a two-way street), it’s a project for two or more people. Grab a friend, a micro:bit each, and build it together! Yayy collaboration! :D
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Basic String Car Racer
A miniature race car is balanced precariously on a single pulley, speeding between two trees on a narrow zip line -- will your car win the race?
by Jan Goolsbey
The Basic String Car is a simple project that consists of a battery, motor, pulley, and a bit of fence wire. The initial design of the car was made from repurposed parts and materials found in Grandpa's basement workshop. This version uses some commercially-available parts, but could be hacked with parts gleaned from old CD players, for example. What modifications and improvements would you make?
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FONA Tethering to Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black
Connect your Linux board to the internet through a cellular data connection with FONA!
by Tony DiCola
How to connect a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black to FONA, and configure PPPD to access the internet through a GPRS cellular data connection.
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Adafruit PiTFT - 2.8" Touchscreen Display for Raspberry Pi
Add a compact 320x240 resolution screen to the top of your Pi
by lady ada
Is this not the cutest little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a 2.8" display with 320x240 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay. The plate uses the high speed SPI interface on the Pi and can use the mini display as a console, X window port, displaying images or video etc.
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Echo 2-XL
GIve your Amazon Echo a new persona.
by C. Cunningham
Repurpose a classic toy robot as a new face and voice for Alexa.
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LED Acrylic Sign
NeoPixel Edge Lit Acrylic
by Ruiz Brothers
Make a LED acrylic sign powered by NeoPixels and CircuitPython!
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Cupcade: the Raspberry Pi Micro Arcade Cabinet
A tiny tribute to classic 1980s games
by Phillip Burgess
If a tiny cake is a cupcake, what's a tiny arcade game? “Cupcade” is a laser-cut enclosure housing a Raspberry Pi computer and Adafruit PiTFT for pixel-perfect renditions of arcade classics.
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Programming an M0 using an Arduino
computers are overrated anyhow
by Dean Miller
Programming ARM core microcontrollers can be bulky and time consuming. This guide hows how to do it simply using an ATSAMD21 based arduino-compatible board.
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Adafruit PiUART - USB Console and Power Add-on for Raspberry Pi
Power! Data! Pi Time!
by lady ada
The PiUART adds a MicroUSB to serial connection so you can use any serial port software to connect to the Pi's console. It plugs in and is fast and easy to add whenever you need to connect to your Pi. You can power your Pi through the microUSB port and then use the switch whenever you want to cut power, without having to unplug the cable.
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CircuitPython Basics: Digital Inputs & Outputs
Learn how to control digital inputs and outputs with CircuitPython!
by Tony DiCola
Use digital inputs and outputs from CircuitPython to control simple hardware like LEDs, buttons, relays, buzzers, and more.