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LONG-RANGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR IoT
The Internet of Things is slowly becoming real: let’s discover a long-range wireless technology that is particularly suitable to create simple and cheap wireless networks, that are able to connect...
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ArduDisplay, when the display becomes interactive!
We are going to build an internet-connected, Arduino-based display, on which we could write directly from a smartphone, by sending the messages over WiFi. In the late 90s of last century LED...
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Touch Display for Raspberry Pi
We add to Raspberry Pi a TFT touch screen to display the system console, movies and favorite photos or control a relay board … at your fingertips, literally! To avoid using an HDMI monitor the cost...
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Raspberry Pi 2 or, better, “Four”!
Tens of thousands of units sold in a few hours, a respectable performance, costs unchanged, here is where Raspberry Pi has decided to be in our future. Here it is. On the desk, switched on,...
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Push notifications from Raspberry Pi
More and more often we find the opportunity to create Internet-connected projects by ourselves, in that category known as the Internet of Things (IoT), within which you can find smart appliances,...
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Presenting Microchip GestIC for implementing Gesture recognition
Among the user interfaces available on the market, there is the one recently developed by Microchip and based on a new technology for gesture recognition, suitable for the creation of innovative...
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RandA: first application, Environmental Monitoring with Webcam
Let’s do some preliminary work with the board that bridges Arduino and Raspberry Pi: before getting into complex applications we’ll play by using cheap and available hardware components. RandA is...
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Let’s code with STM32 NUCLEO
Today we present the first steps with the NUCLEO development boards, produced by STMicroelectronics, that can help us to move towards the ARM 32-bit world with simplicity and great performances ,...
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BOAR’S Board: the ultimate board!
Finally, the board you have always dreamt of, but have always been afraid to ask for! This development board merges three different worlds: pure OS, microcontroller, and FPGA. For the first time, the...
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BOAR’S PIGLET 01: our newborn multi-axis development board
Do you like experimenting with many stepper motors and RC servo actuators at the same time, but do you find it hard to manage it easily due to the numerous cable connections that create a sort of...
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ArdIR a programmable and remotely manageable Infrared control with Arduino
This project presents a universal infrared remote control that can also be managed via Internet, based on RandA (supplied with a dedicated shield) and on Raspberry Pi2. Despite the fact that still...
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The Drink Maker: Open Sourcing your Cocktail!
Based on RandA, this machine can prepare cocktails, by drawing the quantities from dedicated dispensers, according to recipes dowloaded from the webpage from which the drink has been requested. Learn...
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FISHINO: Arduino become wireless
Why “Fishino” ? The names comes to a joke made on April Fools’ Day (in Italian “Pesce d’Aprile“, and ‘Pesce‘, which sounds ‘pashe’ means Fish) made on an Arduino forum where we “presented” a new...
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Gestic Meets Arduino: gesture recognition with Arduino
With the board described here, we will interface the electrode board for gesture recognition to Arduino. To take advantage of the potential of the MGC3130 integrated circuit, we thought of...
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GestIC Meets Raspberry Pi: gesture recognition with Raspberry Pi
Let’s couple the 3D gesture recognition electrode to Raspberry Pi, in order to create an application with which the pictures can be scrolled on a HDMI screen, by means of gestures. In the previous...
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RandA PhotoSharing: Are you a Maker?
Take a picture, select a photo-effect and share it! Raspberry Pi 2 and RandA unite to create an interactive application we presented at San Mateo Maker Faire. At the past Maker Faire, held last...
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The OPEN MOTOR CONTROL: an open source motor controller for everyone
It is open source and based upon the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, and provided with drivers for two DC brush motors and a stepper motor. It receives commands via USB or serial ports, or via the I²C...
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Back To The Future – Build your Flux capacitor
We will show here a modern take on the equipment that enabled time travel in Back to the Future. Those who have a few “decades” of ageing on their shoulders should know Back to the Future (but the...
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3Dprint your halloween special with 3Drag
The night of the witches is coming: we need thus to gear up with a suitable decoration, so to create an atmosphere worthy of this celebration. For this circumstance there are many suggestions on the...
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Discovering the Open Source Ethernet Broadcaster
The idea we propose in this article is dedicated to all those who need to set up a sound/speaker system in a residential or industrial environment: could be a natural park, a church, a mall or any...
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