Not all the Jan the Van journeys are far from home; after testing the brand new motor home and verified that all the stuff is complete I moved to the next step. When I bought the van I opted for a version including the most important features without any kind of extra. I started making […]
Category: Projects
The preview of Radio Magic project, included in “Vintage Upcycling With Raspberry Pi and Arduino” book available on Amazon
From the 1970’s design desk lamp up to the Radio Magic project series, an inspiring guide on vintage upcycling for Makers. The projects are based on the articles published on The Sher magazine and award-winning projects from the Element14.com Project14 challenges. The book is available on Amazon in ebook format, free with Kindle Unlimited and […]
The second video episode of the Super Smart Home challenge project A short description of how I have set up the Super Smart Home Cypress PSoC 6 WiFi Bt dev board as the IoT Control Center device connected to the AWS IoT Core to exchange MQTT data with the AWS platform. The software is based […]
A simple and efficient circuit to program the popular microcontroller with the Arduino IDE (and another to test it with a Raspberry Pi) As much as things are small and powerful, as much they are difficult to manage. But I never resign! The thing that really lost me a lot of time in this project […]
PiCluster At Work
The first practical experiment with the PiCluster After setting the environment of the four nodes PiCluster – a cluster based on the Raspberry Pi 4B – I have installed the workload manager SLURM and created a set of Bash shell scripts to automate an annoying and time-consuming job: the creation of mp4 video scenes from […]
TFA9894D is a 5.6W Class-D boosted audio amplifier with digital input (I2S/TDM) and embedded DSP. This small and efficient breakout board, ideal for makers, has been developed by Dario Murgia, an Italian friend and great engineer living in Nijmegen, NL with which I worked for about one year. He shares his passion for audio, embedded […]
The Scary Mirror
Arduino and Raspberry Pi Working Together I want to showcase a project presented in the book “Progetti per maker con Raspberry Pi”, Ed. Ulrico Hoepli (Milan, Italy), on sale next May, 8th 2020. This project has been shown for the first time in a four-part video show on the Element14 Presents channel (Element14.com Community) with […]
This vintage upcycling project won the Project14 “Acoustics” monthly competition! The vintage upcycling project PiRotary – also included in the book “Progetti per maker con Arduino“, by Hoepli editore, won the monthly Project14 grand prize competition Acoustics on Element14.com. The full making can be found on the PiRotary Element14.com project blog post. Below the simple […]
PiCluster How-to
Abstract from the book Progetti per maker con Raspberry Pi, Ed. Hoepli, Milan (Italy) Translation, M.A. Ricagno Foreword This project will cover the realization of a Cluster using four Raspberry Pi’s 4B. Personally, I’ve always been very interested in the realization of supercomputers built with more than one processor; in the last two years the […]