Tag: raspberry pi
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RSS Headline Display with Raspberry Pi Zero and Pimoroni Inky wHAT E-ink Display
Back in 2019 I was quite pleased when I built an e-ink display which would display the latest news headlines from a handful of news providers. My solution utilised those outlets’ Twitter feeds. But now it’s mid-2023 and Twitter in its old guise is no more. More importantly with respect to that previous project, it…
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Raspberry Pi Pico Solar System
The October 2021 issue of MagPi magazine featured Dymtri Panin’s Pico Solar System, and I fancied building one. The Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny microcontroller board that costs a whopping £3.60 or so. It is powered by a microUSB socket and it can run bits of code that allow it to control things on…
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Pimoroni Keybow Zoom Controller
Pimoroni makes a wonderful little package called the Keybow which comes in 3 key and 12 key options. It uses a Raspberry Pi Zero on top of which sit some LED keys (there are both clicky or quiet). You can then program the whole thing to allow you to use keyboard shortcuts to do various…
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Magic Mirror
Note: Taking good photos of mirrors is very hard! This photo suggests lots of double images, but in fact they’re not visible to the human eye, and the text is nice and sharp! Nor can you see acrylic marks in the screen. Yes, the mirror still works as a mirror. And yes, I’ve intentionally blurred…
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News Twitter Feeds and Inky WHAT E-Ink Display
See update at the bottom if you’ve come to this from Google. For some time now, I’d been meaning to create a little display that shows me the latest news. I’d had a Pimoroni Inky PHAT kicking around for a while, but it’d had broken. For complicated reasons, I ended up with one of Pimoroni’s…
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Building a Desktop National Rail Dashboard
For ages now I’ve been meaning to put together a home dashboard: a screen that gives me up to date information about my local railway station with the departure boards showing. A slightly bigger ambition was to have the dashboard also display times for nearby buses – and perhaps the weather and Twitter news feeds. …