Pimoroni have just announced, via their Bilge Tank videocast, the launch of the Speaker pHAT board. The Zero-form-factor board comes as a kit that requires soldering and has the following features: I2S audio DAC with 3W mono amplifier (MAX98357A) Default…
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Mycroft – an open source artificial intelligence voice processor for the Raspberry Pi
Artificial intelligence software Mycroft was originally a Kickstarter. Designed as an open source alternative to Siri, Google Now, Cortana and Echo, it was originally developed for a Raspberry Pi 2 and is hosted on GitHub. Now, the Mycroft team has released…
IQaudIO releases new audiophile add-on board for the Raspberry Pi
IQaudIO have just released their newest board, the Pi-DAC Pro HAT. Using the PCM5242 DAC, this board gives higher quality output than its predecessors and features both Phono and Headphone sockets. Here is the list of features: Raspberry Pi HAT (A+/B+/2/3) compliant accessory…
3D printed smart alarm clock based around a Raspberry Pi Zero
Here’s a nice 3D printable project for you. fgebhart has used a Raspberry Pi Zero, some prototyping board, an alphanumeric display, an amplifier and a 3D-printed enclosure to build a smart alarm clock. It has the following features: text to…
Great woodwork makes this Raspberry Pi / Spotify jukebox
justthatoneotherdude, building on work from auntie-matter, has created a lovely, wooden jukebox with a Raspberry Pi at the centre. There are 5 knobs controlling playlists and volume and the Pi itself is running the Volumio operating system. There are ‘runner’…
JustBoom AmpHAT audio board for the Raspberry Pi – a review
Yesterday afternoon, I had great fun setting up the JustBoom AmpHAT. JustBoom is a new player in the Raspberry Pi audio market, but comes from well-known company Pi Supply. I was sent the full family of JustBoom boards for review by Aaron, but…
Comparison of sound card DACs for the Raspberry Pi from RasPi.TV
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has tested out some sound cards from IQaudIO, JustBoom, and HiFiBerry. What’s great about his review is that he’s not only tested out what they sound like but also what kind of user experiences you get when faced with the task…
Mexican bacteriological experiment produces biology-driven music via a Raspberry Pi
A Mexican team of Paloma López, Leslie García, and Emmanuel Anguiano (together, they are known as Interspecifics) have created a nature-driven musical instrument. Micro-ritmos is an art installation in which ‘music’ is generated by patterns formed by bacterial cells. The material…
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap proves to be a versatile Raspberry Pi add-on
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs into the GPIO pins. It provides the following features: 12 conductive crocodile clip-compatible connection points High quality audio output via a 3.5mm jack A user-programmable RGB LED…
Self-playing wooden pipe organ uses a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Wendell Kapustiak has built a self-playing wooden pipe organ. The organ has 42 wooden pipes (representing 3.5 chromatic octaves). Each wooden pipe is different and had to be custom-cut to play the right note. A “blower” used to cool data centres…