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This is a bit complicated, technically, but I’ve been asked to document the issue just in case someone comes across it.

I was getting I2C read errors when using the new TE AmbiMate MS4 sensor board (review coming soon!) with the Raspberry Pi 4. I contacted TE about it and they asked me to try a Pi 3. So I did, and it worked absolutely fine.

It was an intermittent issue on the Pi 4 (everyone’s favourite sort of error!), and so I did some research and found some information on something called ‘clock stretching‘.

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The rise of running watches with built-in music is offering people the chance to stop hauling around giant smartphones when they're out for a jog. Whether you're looking for a Garmin watch with music, or a sporty smartwatch, the Wareable team has tested every running wearable on the market. Much of the Garmin sports watch…

Fantastic post for those pi fans out there who missed the original series in MagPi Magazine.

Check it out in full from chowyunbrent on Pico-8, lexaloffle.com.

Last year I wrote a six-part tutorial series for The MagPi magazine that takes a complete novice all the way from installing PICO-8, to designing a full game with audio and effects, to releasing it on the BBS. The MagPi is a fantastic UK magazine that covers everything Raspberry Pi related and, with unfathomable generosity, makes all their issues available online for free in .pdf form. I post the full collection here now in the hope that they are useful.

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Here’s a great voice control media station project from Sid via hackster.io:

This is not your typical Kodi based media player implemented using Pi. This features voice control and built-in Google Assistant. The Kodi is invoked by wakeword “Kodi” (if you want some other wakeword, of course you can change) and the Google Assistant with the usual “Hey Google” and “Ok Google” wakeword. Commands issued with “Kodi” wakeword is processed for Kodi control and “Hey Google” or “Ok Google” wakeword is processed for queries.

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Delighted at this cassette enclosed build from Martin Mander on Hackster.io:

The most fun part is that thanks to some trimming of the Pi itself, the cassette can still fit inside any vintage tape player, turning that old ornament into a functional and classy Internet of Things device.

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RaspberryPi.org is having a multi-day celebration of Pong. Ebon Upton revealed his Python-based take on the classic game, a version he calls Boin! Now they’ve got a fun project that allows you to play Boing! with ultrasonic sensors to make the game even more fun! From RaspberryPi.org:

Games controllers are basically just sensors that take input from the real world in some way and translate that into in-game actions. Most commonly, these sensors are buttons that you press, but there’s no need for that to be the case. You can use almost any sensor you can get input from – it sounds trite, but the main limitation really is your imagination!

We were playing with ultrasonic distance sensors in the last issue of HackSpace magazine, and this sprung to mind a Pong controller. After all, distance sensors measure in one dimension and Pong bats travel in one dimension.

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Handy new blog post up on Ben’s Place.

After my post about using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB gadget got linked to by a YouTuber who worked your it also worked with the iPad Pro it has been getting a lot of traffic.

Along with the traffic came a number of comments from people wanting help setting things up. While the instructions are reasonably complete, they do assume a certain amount of existing knowledge and access to a monitor/keyboard/network to complete everything. Also given the majority of the readers were Apple users they couldn’t mount the main partition of the SDCard as it is a ext4 file system.

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From feiticeir0 on Instructables:

How does it work ?

You press the blue button – it starts to blink – and after 3 seconds a picture is taken. On the other side of the camera there’s a monitor that is showing a countdown and after the picture is taken, the preview of the photo.

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Redditor RamonesRazor shared this weather station converted from an old tv. The overgrown plant effect creates an awesome look.

Via Reddit:

Fun little project I finished up last night.

1. Raspberry Pi 3
2. 3.5″ LCD screen
3. Old mini TV I got for free from a local “Buy Nothing” group.
4. Fake moss & plants from a local craft store.

Instructions:

1. Fresh install of Raspbian 10 (buster) on the Pi, attach screen and config
2. Installed PiWeatherRock, small Python program that provides the GUI
3. Signed up for DarkSky.net, which allows 1,000 free daily API calls to the weather service
4. Added my API key and location into the config file
5. Mounted the Pi & screen inside the TV shell.
6. Decorate! Still in progress, might make it even more overgrown.

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