Having recently bought a Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT – I thought I’d put it to good use as a face tracker! I started off with the code example from the Pimoroni github, but thought I’d tweak it a little so that if it can’t find a face it starts searching. (more…)
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LED Matrix 2.0
We can rebuild him; we have the technology.
So a few posts ago I hinted that I was thinking about rebuilding my old hand-soldered LED matrix using 3D printing to assist me, here’s a log of that build!
Raspberry Pi Audio Visualiser
Another Unicorn HAT project that I’ve been fiddling around with for a while. I was looking for a way to introduce kids to the idea of Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) and signal processing so with my love of blinking lights I thought I’d create an audio visualiser just like the one you tend to find in media-players.
Word Clock
After getting my first Pi Zero I started thinking about a project to embed it in. I’d seen word clocks done in various ways, but thought I’d put my own spin on it. (more…)