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SMS Texting Pet Food Dish
Receive an SMS text message when your pet food dish is empty!
by Tony DiCola
Use an Arduino and CC3000 to send SMS messages with Amazon's Simple Notification Service.
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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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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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Mini UNTZtrument: 3D Printed MIDI Controller
Build a 16 button MIDI drum machine!
by Ruiz Brothers
The mini UNTZtrument is a 3d printed case housing one trellis and 4 potentiometers ideal for a 16 button drum pad.
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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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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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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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DIY WiFi Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Camera
Make your own Cloud-connected point-and-shoot camera
by Phillip Burgess
This project explores the Adafruit PiTFT touchscreen and the Raspberry Pi camera board to create a simple point-and-shoot digital camera. One can optionally use WiFi and Dropbox (a cloud file storage and synchronization service) to automatically transfer photos to another computer for editing.
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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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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 3. Network Setup
Learn how to connect to the Internet wirelessly or with Ethernet
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to connect to the Internet wirelessly and with an Ethernet cable and also find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi
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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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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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USBtinyISP
AVR programmer & SPI interface
by lady ada
This is documentation for a simple open-source USB AVR programmer and SPI interface. It is low cost, easy to make, works great with avrdude, is AVRStudio-compatible and tested under Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Perfect for students and beginners, or as a backup programmer.
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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.
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a WiFi access point
Make the most adorable little WiFi router
by lady ada
Set up your Pi a WiFi access point that will route traffic to the Ethernet port