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Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027: A Weekend Build Queue
The Book of Making 2027 collects a year of magazine builds: origami paper circuits, a PVC-pipe underwater rover, and a first-PCB walkthrough to try.
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Louder ESP32: A $50 Multi-Room Audio Amp That Rivals Sonos
A $24 ESP32-S3 board with an onboard Class-D amp, a USB-PD trigger set to 20V, and Music Assistant add up to a networked stereo…
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Ben Eater Builds a Breadboard Clock Timed by 60 Hz Wall Power
Ben Eater skips the crystal oscillator and pulls his breadboard clock's one-second heartbeat straight from the 60 Hz AC grid. Here's how the circuit…
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Build a Wi-Fi NeoPixel Art Display with the Raspberry Pi Pico 2W
The Blossom hides a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W and a 16-pixel RGBW NeoPixel ring in a capiz shell, controlled from any browser on your…
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A Raspberry Pi Zero Cyberdeck That Fits Inside an Altoids Tin
A maker packed a Raspberry Pi Zero, a 2-inch LCD, and a hand-soldered keyboard into a mint tin. Here is how the pocket cyberdeck…
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Build a Classroom Robot with Adafruit CRICKIT and CircuitPython
One CRICKIT board turns a Circuit Playground or Feather into a motor-driving, servo-swinging robot brain, no soldering iron required. Here's how to start.
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SPOKE: The RP2040 Touch Controller That Plays Music From Fruit
The SPOKE is a CD-shaped RP2040 board with 27 capacitive touch pads that turns copper tape, pencil lines, or even fruit into a playable…
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Build a Retro Handheld Inside an NES Gamepad with an ESP32-S2
A dead NES-style controller hides a full ESP32-S2 emulator that plays 8-bit classics and Doom for about $17. Here is the weekend build.
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DOGS2: A Palm-Sized ESP32 Bench Lab You Can Build This Weekend
Sergei's DOGS2 stuffs a programmable power supply, logic probe, frequency counter, and signal generator into one palm-sized ESP32 box. Build it this weekend.
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Voicebox FX: A Pocket Audio Looper on the Feather RP2350
Adafruit's Voicebox FX records 20-second clips and warps them live with pitch, reverb and delay, all running CircuitPython on a Feather RP2350.
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This Giant 16×2 Character Display Runs on an RP2040 and 1,000 LEDs
A maker rebuilt the classic 16×2 character LCD at 7x scale using 1,000+ addressable LEDs and an RP2040 that still speaks I2C to any…
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A Retro Game Console Crammed Inside an NES Gamepad (ESP32-S2)
Logic Gate Labs squeezed a full ESP32-S2 handheld emulator (and Doom) into an empty NES gamepad shell for about $17. Here is how the…