Category: Python
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Adventures into Badger2040 hacking
tl;dr So I had seen the Badger240 and hadn’t played around with e-ink screens or the pi pico really so I ordered one to force me to get my hands dirty. I knew I had some real potential for a really cool wearable and lots of hacking potential. Join me below to see what I…
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Zero Boot System – Thin and lite
tl;dr After using the Zero Boot System I got thinking of away of making it thinner and more pocketable. I thought I would move the battery from the back of the pi to between the pi and the screen. To do this I thought I could add the power bank board to the same PCB…
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ZeroBoy rev C – An improved poor mans retropie portable
tl;dr At the heart of this project is a raspberry pi running retorpie now add a 3.2″ screen that’s tried together with a custom PCB with enough buttons for a gamepad. You end up with what time calling the ZeroBoy. Hardware Raspberry pi zero 3.2″ Screen 2×20 female header 8x Soft touch buttons 2x small…
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ZeroBoy – A poor man’s retropie “portable”
tl;dr You know when you see something and it give you instant inspiration and you also see a few ways you would also improve it. The thing I seen was wonky resistor score zero it’s basically a raspberry pi “hat” that has buttons in the layout of a nes controller. What I first thought was to make…
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Pi hut Xmas tree, Mods and some example code
tl;dr So last year (2016) I wanted to get one of these PCB xmas trees pi hut were selling, But unfortunately I missed out on the pre-order. This year I got an early tip and at the end of September I managed to secure a pre-order. I received my tree in the middle of November.…
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Night vision pi camera
tl;dr Well why wouldn’t you want a night vision camera. My first idea was to have a raspberry pi with a night vision camera but instead of a screen it would stream to a phone in one of these “virtual reality” headsets but I couldn’t find a setup that didn’t have too much lag. I…
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Raspberry pi and the OTG internet nightmare with debian 8 (solved)
So I’ve recently got back into some raspberry pi dev, Since ive been away the raspberry pi zero is readily available so more and more people are using them. I’ve seen a few people SSHing into there pi zero’s with just one USB cable going from their laptop to their OTG port on the pi…
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The swear word restorer
tl;dr Don’t you just hate it when you are watching your favourite tv show and they decide to block all the good swear words with the pesky beep. Did you know that all the tv show and film makers use the same 1kHz tone to block out swear words. I drew inspiration from THIS project where…
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Portable pi
Tl;dr I wanted to make my raspberry pi portable so I went out and found a screen that connected via HDMI. Next I needed to get a case, I found a rip off of a pelican case over on aliexpress. After I had the screen and the case I needed to find away to get…
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Raspberry Pi shutdown button Rev.b
tl;dr After finally getting round to making a shut down button I thought I would see if I could do one better and improve on my current design. I have been trying to move into using more and more SMD parts in my projects. The good thing about SMD parts is that it saves space…