Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2023
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=> ↺ Adventures with a “working” Pentium III Motherboard
I haven’t really blogged about this, but I was recently given a Pentium III 1GHz with 512MB of RAM in a slim Dell desktop case. I decided to upgrade it with things I would have liked to have back then to play everything I wanted. This included a Sound Blaster Live and a Voodoo II for Glide games. There was just one problem, the Voodoo II was too long for the case, so without a lot of metal work, this needed an upgrade. This is where the Ship of Theseus or “Triggers Broom” part of the story starts.
=> ↺ Computing curriculum fundamentals | Hello World #20
Why are computing systems at the heart of our computing curriculum design? Senior Learning Manager Sway Grantham from the Foundation team explains in her article from the brand-new issue of Hello World, our free magazine for computing educators, out today.
=> ↺ How To Make a DIY Mouse Jiggler with Raspberry Pi Pico
If you need your boss to think you are online or your PC not to sleep, a $4 Pico can make a great, DIY mouse jiggler.
=> ↺ How To Create a Bluetooth Raspberry Pi Camera Trigger
The new Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 offers exceptional image quality and a choice between a standard (75 degrees) and wide (120 degrees) lenses. Best of all, we now have autofocus. Taking pictures with the Picamera2 is easy, but sometimes we just want to press a button and take a picture, and appear in the shot!
In this project we will use Blue Dot, a Python module and Android app to create a Bluetooth controlled camera trigger. Thanks to Blue Dot’s easy to use library and Picamera2’s verbose structure we will be capturing 1080p photos via a small amount of code.
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