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Retro table radio breathes new life with a Pi zero and becomes talkative

Posted on October 19, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

A late 1940s DeWald table radio is given a new life by the Instructable user MisterM using a Raspberry Pi Zero, some RGB LEDs, and a pair of PC Speakers. The radio can read out notifications from various internet-connected services using Pyvona, a Python wrapper for Amazon’s IVONA text-to-speech engine along with IF This Then That (IFTTT) integration. The RGB LEDs light the radio’s dial with a different color depending on the keywords detected (Red for the word ‘YouTube’, Orange for ‘Sunset’, etc ) in the notification text. Sorting out the audio was little bit challenging because the Pi Zero does not have a

Raspberry Pi All Sky Camera

Posted on October 6, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

Thomas Jacquin built this Raspberry Pi based all sky camera to capture the Northern Lights. Capable of taking pictures of the entire sky over a certain amount of time, the camera is best suitable for recording meteor showers and other astronomical phenomena. I built mine to monitor the northern lights. I live in the Yukon and we sometimes get beautiful aurora displays during the night. However, I also have a day time job and I need my 8 hours of sleep. I created this camera to record a movie of the entire night. That way, I can replay the movie

Another RPi-based solar powered weather station

Posted on August 18, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

Brian Masney from Morgantown, WV has designed a full-featured solar powered weather station that includes sensors for measuring rain, wind, temperature, humidity, and pressure. It runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero running the latest Raspbian Testing Lite and is powered by a 6600mAH 3.7V lithium ion battery that is charged using a 6V 9W solar panel. The solar panel is attached to the top of the project box using several large pieces of Velcro. More information about the solar setup can be found on Adafruit’s Website. Be sure to connect the PowerBoost 1000 to the battery charge output pins; not to

PiClock: A RPi-based clock and Weather display

Posted on June 13, 2015 by R-B One comment

Hackaday user Kevin Uhlir‘s PiClock is a Raspberry Pi-based fancy clock with weather forecasting and RADAR map display features. The clock retrieves the Weather data from Weather Underground using their API (http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/ ) and the maps are from Google Maps API. An HDMI monitor is interfaced to RPi for displaying the information.