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Remote teams ring office bell with Raspberry Pi and Slack August 14, 2020

Bustling offices… remember those? It feels like we’ve all been working from home forever, and it’s going to be a while yet before everyone is back at their desks in the same place. And when that does happen, if your workplace is anything like Raspberry Pi Towers, there will still be lots of people in […]

Ashley Whittaker

Mini Raspberry Pi Boston Dynamics–inspired robot August 13, 2020

This is a ‘Spot Micro’ walking quadruped robot running on Raspberry Pi 3B. By building this project, redditor /thetrueonion (aka Mike) wanted to teach themself robotic software development in C++ and Python, get the robot walking, and master velocity and directional control. Mike was inspired by Spot, one of Boston Dynamics’ robots developed for industry […]

Ashley Whittaker

Track your punches with Raspberry Pi August 12, 2020

‘Track-o-punches’ tracks the number of punches thrown during workouts with Raspberry Pi and a Realsense camera, and it also displays your progress and sets challenges on a touchscreen. In this video, Cisco shows you how to set up the Realsense camera and a Python virtual environment, and how to install dependencies and OpenCV for Python […]

Ashley Whittaker

New twist on Raspberry Pi experimental resin 3D printer August 11, 2020

Element14’s Clem previously built a giant Raspberry Pi-powered resin-based 3D printer and here, he’s flipped the concept upside down. The new Raspberry Pi 4 8GB reduces slicing times and makes for a more responsive GUI on this experimental 3D printer. Let’s take a look at what Clem changed and how… The previous iteration of his […]

Ashley Whittaker

Raspberry Pi calls out your custom workout routine August 10, 2020

If you don’t want to be tied to a video screen during home workouts, Llum Acosta, Samreen Islam, and Alfred Gonzalez shared this great Raspberry Pi–powered alternative on hackster.io: their voice-activated project announces each move of your workout routine and how long you need to do it for. This LED-lit, compact solution means you don’t need […]

Ashley Whittaker