Hackaday (unofficial) April 24, 2024 9:00am Flute Now Included on List of Human Interface Devices #musicalhacks #peripheralshacks #audioprocessing #humaninterfacedevice #microcontroller #mouse #mousepointer #music #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Flute Now Included On List Of Human Interface Devices For decades now, we’ve been able to quickly and reliably interface musical instruments to computers. These tools have generally made making and recording music much easier, but they’ve …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 31, 2024 9:00pm Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs #musicalhacks #raspberrypi #capacitivetouch #pipico #raspberrypi2040 #raspberrypipico #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs Unlike many modern microcontrollers, RP2040 doesn’t come with a native capacitive touch peripheral. This doesn’t mean you can’t do it – the usual software-driven way works w…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 17, 2024 9:00pm RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm #raspberrypi #techhacks #bootloader #cornelluniversity #hunteradams #robotswarm #rp2040 #virtualfencing #worms #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 RP2040 Boot Loader Is A Worm [Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR link and can be extended to behave like a polite worm virus. This allows the easy updating of a large cluster of co-…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 8, 2024 7:00am RP2040, ESP32, And An Atmega Have An ADC-Off #microcontrollers #atmega328p #esp32 #microcontrollerreview #review #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 RP2040, ESP32, And An Atmega Have An ADC-Off [Simon Monk] got frustrated with bad ADC performance when tinkering with an ESP32 board, and decided to put three of the nowadays-iconic boards to the test – a classic ESP32 devboard, a Pi Pi…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 14, 2024 7:00pm Inputs of Interest: the Svalboard Could Be Your Salvation #hackadaycolumns #peripheralshacks #assistivetechnology #datahand #datahands #keytravel #lalboard #magnets #opticalswitches #repetitivestressinjury #rp2040 #svalboard #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Inputs Of Interest: The Svalboard Could Be Your Salvation You know, sometimes dreams really do come true. When I told you about the DataHand keyboard almost four years ago, I never imagined I’d ever get to lay my hands on anything even remotely like…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 30, 2024 8:01pm Simon Says with an RP2040 #games #raspberrypi #cornell #ece4760 #picow #rp2040 #simonsays #udp #vga #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Simon Says With An RP2040 The team of [Michael] and [Chimdi] from Cornell’s Designing with Microcontrollers (ECE 4760) Fall 2023 session designed a version of Simon Says on an RP2040 which they call Pico Says. It uses…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 11, 2024 5:00pm Building a Loop Station With An RP2040 #microcontrollers #musicalhacks #guitar #looppedal #loopstation #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Building A Loop Station With An RP2040 Loop stations are neat things, able to replay one or more loops of audio over and over again while you perform over the top of them. Musicians like [Marc Rebillet], [Reinhardt Buhr], and [Dub FX] h…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 5, 2024 8:00pm The ScottoKatana Keyboard is Cutting-Edge #arduinohacks #peripheralshacks #arduinopromicro #handwiredkeyboard #katana #keyboard #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The ScottoKatana Keyboard Is Cutting-Edge The lovely thing about a hobby like keyboard building is that the melting pot of designs manages to never turn into a nasty porridge. Rather, it remains a tasty chili that keeps getting more flavor…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 4, 2024 7:00am ProPico For Your Pro Pico Needs #pcbhacks #raspberrypi #dropin #dropinreplacement #fram #pipico #raspberrypi2040 #raspberrypipico #rp2040 #upgradeboard #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 ProPico For Your Pro Pico Needs Ever feel like the Pi Pico board could be doing way more given its footprint? Does it bother you that the RP2040’s ADC quality is even further decreased because of the noisy onboard switching…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 2, 2024 1:00am Precise Positioning with the RP2040 #radiohacks #raspberrypi #microwaves #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Precise Positioning With The RP2040 Microwave imaging is similar to CT imaging, but instead of X-rays, the microwaves are used to probe the structure and composition of an object. To facilitate experimentation with microwave imaging,…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 30, 2023 7:00am Sound-Reactive Light Saber Flips Allegiance Via Vowel Sounds #raspberrypi #toyhacks #audiodetection #disco #lightsaber #rp2040 #vowel #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Sound-Reactive Light Saber Flips Allegiance Via Vowel Sounds Students [Berk Gokmen] and [Justin Green] developed an RP2040-based LED-illuminated lightsaber as a final project with a bit of a twist. It has two unusual sound-reactive modes: disco mode, and vow…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 28, 2023 1:00pm CoreXY on the Pi Pico #robotshacks #corexy #plotter #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 CoreXY On The Pi Pico There are enough off-the-shelf CoreXY mechanisms out there that for the cost of an AliExpress order it’s possible to quickly and cheaply make yourself a plotter. But [Koushani Das], [Mahathi …
Hackaday (unofficial) December 27, 2023 8:00pm Raspberry Pi Pico Parallel Mandelbrot Computation #raspberrypi #mandelbrotset #parallelcomputing #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Raspberry Pi Pico Parallel Mandelbrot Computation The Mandelbrot set is — when visualized with some colors — an interesting shape with infinite detail. While the patterns are immediately obvious to the human eye, anyone who’s run…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 26, 2023 5:00pm Building a Better Keyboard and Mouse Switch #computerhacks #peripheralshacks #cablemanagement #kvm #network #raspberrypi #raspberrypipico #rp2040 #switching #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Building A Better Keyboard And Mouse Switch Switching inputs between desktops seems like something that should be simple but can prove to be a pain in reality. [Hrvoje Cavrak] decided to take maters into his own hands and build a better keyb…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 22, 2023 10:00am Open Source DC UPS Keeps the Low-Voltage Gear Going #batteryhacks #18650 #bms #dc #esp32 #network #rp2040 #stm32 #uninterruptiblepowersupply #ups #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Open Source DC UPS Keeps The Low-Voltage Gear Going We all like to keep our network gear running during a power outage — trouble is, your standard consumer-grade uninterruptible power supply (UPS) tends to be overkill for routers and such. The…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 21, 2023 5:00pm PicoGUS: For All Your ISA Sound Card Needs #retrocomputing #isabus #rp2040 #soundcard #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 PicoGUS: For All Your ISA Sound Card Needs Sound cards used to be a big part of gaming machines in the 90s and 2000s but have largely gone extinct in the wake of powerful CPUs doing the sound themselves. Sound cards were expensive back then…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 21, 2023 7:00am Pi-lomar Puts an Observatory in Your Hands #raspberrypi #space #amateurastronomy #astrophotography #observatory #raspberrypi4 #raspberrypihqcamera #rp2040 #telescope #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pi-lomar Puts An Observatory In Your Hands Humans have loved looking up at the night sky for time immemorial, and that hasn’t stopped today. [MattHh] has taken this love to the next level with the Pi-lomar Miniature Observatory. Built…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 19, 2023 6:00am The Birdy44 Keyboard Is Something to Crow About #peripheralshacks #raspberrypi #kailhchocs #keyboard #lowprofile #rp2040 #steamcontroller #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Birdy44 Keyboard Is Something To Crow About The funny thing about keyboard end game is that it usually involves more than one keyboard. Rare is the board that is great for both home and away. Having finished their dactyl build, [RalphCoder13…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 14, 2023 9:00pm 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Candy Basket Sees You Coming #contests #holidayhacks #candy #halloween #halloweencandy #raspberrypi #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Candy Basket Sees You Coming On Halloween, some people can’t or don’t want to open the door for various reasons. Maybe they have a cat that likes to escape every chance it gets, or maybe their favorite TV show is o…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 14, 2023 3:00pm Close to the Metal #hackadaycolumns #rants #softwaredevelopment #firmware #hardware #micropython #newsletter #peek #poke #rp2040 #software #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Close To The Metal Firmware is caught between hardware and software. What do I mean? Microcontroller designers compete on how many interesting and useful hardware peripherals they can add to the chips, and they are a…