Author Archives: e8johan

Pi Parts

Posted on March 5, 2014 by e8johan

Have you ever wondered what all the little bits and pieces on your Raspberry Pi is? Now you can learn by simply hovering your mouse over the interactive image over at raspmap. Via Raspberry Pi.

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Portable Gaming

Posted on March 4, 2014 by e8johan

The Arduboy platform is heading for kickstarter. It is a creditcard shaped gaming platform featuring capacitive buttons, a small OLED screen, speakers, battery and a barebone Arduino (atmega). I think that this looks great for gaming, but can think of … Continue reading →

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Schematics On-line

Posted on February 27, 2014 by e8johan

Over at schematics.com you can find designs and share your designs in an online community. This can be a handy resource for finding reference designs. An interesting detail is the contribution from semi-conductor manufacturers. For instance, NXP are contributing designs … Continue reading →

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Retro Flapping

Posted on February 25, 2014 by e8johan

I guess very few have missed the Internet phenomena Flappy Bird. It is a rare occasion when a game is retracted for being addictive. There are a number of clones out there. According to arstechnica you can run it on … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi in a PSU

Posted on February 24, 2014 by e8johan

This appeals to me in so many ways – modding, retro, RPi, Commodore… By _retrotext_. via adafruit.

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Open Source Knitting

Posted on February 21, 2014 by e8johan

Being married to a dress maker, this project really resonates with me. The people over at OpenKnit have created an open source knitting machine. This takes home production to a new level. I get the impression that open source support … Continue reading →

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We’re back!

Posted on February 21, 2014 by e8johan

So, it has been a while since the last update on this site. There have been loads of reasons for this – lots to do at work, having a second kid, trying to write a book, etc. All positive problems … Continue reading →

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Arduino Pong

Posted on July 1, 2013 by e8johan

What is the first thing to do when you have video out on your microcontroller? Some say Tetris, other say Pong. I won’t lie – it’s unlikely your daughter will be giving up her Nintendo DS, and this isn’t going … Continue reading →

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Fritzing Contest

Posted on June 28, 2013 by e8johan

Over at Fritzing you can win EUR 500 from your design. Create a give away PCB for our  Fritzing-Kits and win 500 Euros cash ! It should be: interesting useful uncomplicated hyper-lightspeed Turn-Blink-Sound-Noise-Thing’a’Bob which we can ship with our kits. … Continue reading →

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Facial Recognition using RPi

Posted on June 19, 2013 by e8johan

The Raspberry Pi blog just mentioned Pierre Raufast‘s experiments with OpenCV and the RPi camera module. He achieves facial recognition with multiple targets at ~8fps, which is kind of impressive given the limited processing power of the Raspberry Pi. All the … Continue reading →

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