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Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2022
> If you grew up in the 90s, you might remember the excitement of the Game Boy Pocket and how satisfying it was to finally fit your favorite handheld console in your pocket. Maker and developer Grgo Mariani has recreated that excitement for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts with his custom Raspberry Pi Pico-powered pocket-sized gaming console.
> Maker and developer Pheux9558, as they’re known on Reddit, has developed a custom CNC drawing machine from scratch using a Raspberry Pi. This tiny CNC machine (opens in new tab) is much smaller than your average plotter and uses some recycled hardware from old PCs, including parts from a CD drive and even components of an old floppy drive.
> In addition to the Raspberry Pi, it works with an Arduino Uno to process the image details into workable commands for the CNC machine to print with. Finally, to bring everything together, Pheux9558 designed and 3D printed a few pieces for mounting the hardware.
> If you’re not looking to set up a major website on a hosting service, you can easily run a web server in your home. We’ve previously explained how to set up a Raspberry Pi web server using a regular Pi 3, 4 or Zero, but you don’t even need a full Pi to get the job done. With the Raspberry Pi PIco W, a Wi-Fi enabled micro controller that costs just $6, you can do some basic web serving.
> The Raspberry Pi Pico W isn’t the most obvious choice, but with a little MicroPython code, and some HTML, we can serve basic, static web pages from a Pico W. There are two parts to this project. The HTML and the MicroPython code. The HTML is what our browser will see, and MicroPython acts as the means to serve the code.
> For this project we will host a basic web page from a Raspberry Pi Pico W. We will also demonstrate how to add a little more sparkle to your pages with CSS and JavaScript. Finally we will serve the content to the world by learning how to forward external requests to our Raspberry Pi Pico W.
> Elephant Robotics has released its latest Raspberry Pi (opens in new tab)-powered robot, its first to have dual arms. The bot’s six-jointed appendages can move a 250g (9oz) weight through a radius of 11 inches (280mm), and can be outfitted with grippers, hands making various gestures, and even a suction pump.
> We’ve just reviewed the Raspberry Pi 4-powered CrowPi L laptop and Crowtail Starter kit used to teach programming and electronics, but Elecrow has now launched the “Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit” with 32 electronics modules, a smart kit car, and 32 tutorials that should be a more affordable way of teaching electronics and programming.
> However, it does so in a different way, as instead of using visual programming and Python, the Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit’s lessons rely on MicroPython, and the projects are different with for example parts to build an obstacle avoidance, line tracking, or remote controlled car.
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