![]() Take that dead old Apple laptop out of your closet or grab that '90s-era IBM ThinkPad from your parents’ attic, and use any of them as a housing for a Raspberry Pi! One of the most popular uses for Raspberry Pi hardware is to breathe new life into older technology that would have otherwise joined a landfill. You can also find a much more hands-on/DIY approach to a luminous cube at this Hackster.io page (Opens in a new window). (In this design, you would bring your own Pi to the kit.) The "project source" link further up showcases the build and programming behind it. ![]() The LumiCube project shown above is projected to be available as a kit in 2022 via an Indiegogo (Opens in a new window) push (preceded by a Kickstarter) that was running at this writing. It's not always possible, though, to manually check temperatures using a contactless thermometer (you need the personnel to do that), and they place the person testing temperatures at risk of exposure.Īdd a microphone, and you can even program the LEDs to alter their color or pattern based on sounds, reacting to voices or music in your home. Raspberry Pi Automated Temperature Check With Mask DetectionĪnother ingenious way that Raspberry Pi has been tweaked to help individuals and communities during the pandemic: How about as a COVID cop? By using facial landmarking software and infrared temperature sensors, this Pi project makes for an affordable, touch-free kiosk that provides contactless temperature checks and confirms that each person that passes is wearing a mask.īecause fever is the leading symptom of COVID-19, temperature checkpoints have been staples in some schools, offices, and other workplaces. ![]() All that is needed here is a Raspberry Pi board, a USB microphone, a USB speaker, a few buttons, and a willingness not to shout at family members who don’t respond immediately. Thanks to the creative use of a Telegram voice-chat bot, you can use Raspberry Pi to call family members to dinner or let them know that Daddy or Mommy (hopefully, not both at once) is leaving the house for a mental health day. It started as an effort to keep a quarantined-for-weeks father in touch with his daughter in the same house. ![]() While social distancing might have become less of a priority for many as 2021 has drawn to a close, this DIY project helps bring the distant members of your household (including kids or spouses working from home) a little closer. Let’s take a look at some of the best Raspberry Pi projects we’ve seen in 2021. Some of the older pre-Pi 4 models, though, are still available for less than the cost of an entrée at your local diner, and the creativity they have spawned is near limitless. (That will stand, at least, until the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Opens in a new window) reveals the next rumored Pi model (Opens in a new window) in 2022 or 2023.) The Pi planet has seen four main releases of Raspberry Pi boards, along with various mods and variants, over the last decade, with the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B the latest and greatest revision. Launched in 2012, the Raspberry Pi is a silent, energy-efficient, single-board computer that fits inside the palm of your hand-or inside just about anything you might want to make computer-controlled. When it comes to DIY maker technology, few bits of hardware have had the versatility and outright longevity of the Raspberry Pi.
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