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ICYMI: Koen Vervloesem shows you how to use ESPHome with a Thread network to create your own smart-home devices that seamlessly integrate with Home Assistant

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Creating Thread Devices with ESPHome

ESPHome makes it easy to create your own smart-home devices that seamlessly integrate with Home Assistant. We show you how to use ESPHome with a Th...

#ESP32 #OpenSource #ESPHome #SmartHome #Thread #MeshNetwork

In the market for a new SBC? @npub1q77p...ngzx looks at the Orange Pi RV2 to see how it compares to the Raspberry Pi

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Competition for the Raspberry Pi: Orange Pi RV2

The Orange Pi RV2, an affordable single-board computer, features the RISC-V architecture. We test how it compares to the Raspberry Pi.

#OrangePi #RV2 #RaspberryPi #SBC #RISCV #OpenHardware #ARM #OpenSource

Learn how to control the Adafruit NeoPixel (WS2812) with a few lines of MicroPython

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MicroPython: WS2812 aka NeoPixel

The Adafruit NeoPixel (WS2812) is an RGB LED that you can program via a serial protocol. We show you how to control the LED with a few lines of Mic...

#AdafruitNeoPixel #WS2812 #LED #MicroPython #programming #OpenHardware

Learn to create your own home automation devices with an ESP32 or Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller board

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Creating Home Automation Devices with ESPHome

With an ESP32 or Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller board, you can easily create your own home automation devices. Thanks to ESPHome, you don’t ...

#RaspberryPi #EPS32 #ESPHome #automation #firmware #ESP8266 #RP2040 #microcontroller #OpenHardware #FOSS

Learn how to send Raspberry Pi and Arduino messages to your desktop

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Send Raspberry Pi and Arduino Notification Messages to Your Desktop

If you use sensors with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino in your home network, you may want to get desktop notifications on your Linux PC whenever some in...

#notifications #RaspberryPi #Arduino #desktop #Linux #SSH #TCP #data #microcontrollers

You don’t need much to create a smart home information center -- just a Raspberry Pi Pico, an ePaper panel, a battery, and some Python

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Smart Home Info Center

You don’t need much to create a smart home information center – just a Raspberry Pi Pico, an ePaper panel, a battery, and some Python.

#RaspberryPi #PiPico #Python #SmartHome #ePaper #MakerProject #makerspace

Learn how to use a Raspberry Pi 4B with Linux to solve equations for a real-time nonlinear aircraft simulation, including the emulation of modern aircraft flight displays

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Flight Simulation on the Raspberry Pi

A Raspberry Pi 4B with Linux can solve the equations for a real-time nonlinear aircraft simulation, including the emulation of modern aircraft flig...

#RasbperryPi #Linux #FlightSimulation #aircraft #EFS #SourceCode #software #OpenGL

Looking to design your own power supply? Reduce some of the inherent risk by building a model and running simulations with SPICE in KiCad

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SPICE and KiCad

Designing a power supply can be an interesting yet dangerous engineering task. You can reduce some of the inherent risk by building a model and run...

#PowerSupply #SPICE #KiCad #SMPS #simulation #projects #makers

Not Just for PCs: @Hans-Georg Eßer shows you how to run @npub12lnx...vs03 24.04 on your Raspberry Pi

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Ubuntu 24.04 on the Raspberry Pi

Not just for PCs, Ubuntu 24.04 supports the Raspberry Pi, bringing a fully-fledged Gnome system to the single-board computer. You can even run x86 ...

#Ubuntu #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #Pi5 #GNOME #Debian #SBC #OpenHardware #FOSS

Is Python causing performance issues with your small embedded machine? The Lua programming language may be a better alternative

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Use a Raspberry Pi Plus a Temperature Sensor to Talk to a PS Vita Display

Lua is an interesting Python alternative for small embedded machines that are not sufficiently powerful to run Python scripts. Create Lua socket cl...

#RaspberryPi #Lua #Python #programming #languages #performance #Bash #scripting #PSVita