The Electromaker Show

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 40! This week’s DIY tech news highlights include a Raspberry Pi smart chess board, Arduino-controlled Nintendo Switch, Raspberry Pi Zero RF video modulator HAT, RP2040 board Arduino IDE support, and more! Tune in for the latest maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Big Clive reverse engineers a generic 433 MHz receiver
• How to drill a hole with Butluni
• Raspberry Pi Smart Chess Board
• Arduino helps control the world's largest Nintendo Switch
• Raspberry Pi Easter fun!
• Incredible Commodore 64 Organ
• Pi Zero RF Video Modulator HAT
• RP2040 boards get Unofficial Arduino IDE support
• CNX software roundup of the most powerful ARM SBCs and DevKits in 2021
• Electromaker roundup of x86 boards

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 39! This week’s highlights include a Raspberry Pi Zero sending video from space, a Bluetooth Robot, and a dual Ethernet Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 baseboard. Tune in for the latest maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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Electromaker Show Episode 39 highlights:

• Mitch Davis STM32 Guide Episode 4
• Pi Zero sends video from Space!
• Unexpected Maker explains SAM
• ESP32-M1 Reach Out price and more details released
• Back in Stock: ScoutMakes Bluetooth Robot
• Board:Mini: Car hacking Made Easier
• Dual Ethernet Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 baseboard
• STM32 Blackpill now supports CircuitPython
• Secret Life of Components: Switches

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 38! Highlights for the week include a major Raspberry Pi imager update, open-source grow light, and a DIY Ecobee smart plug. Tune in for the latest maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Custom Smart Plug uses Ecobee
• Voidstar Data Blaster: Pi 400 based Cyberdeck
• Really effective LED use in monster hunter cosplay
• I2C Mini - USB to I2C adapter for development on Crowd Supply
• Open Grow Light: Open Source fully featured DIY planting system
• Open Grow Instructable
• Arduino Day Livestream Announced
• Raspberry Pi Imager gets an update
• ETA Prime shows off the CM4 GPiMate
• A Handy Reference For Display Drivers And LCD Controllers
• Moonshot Jr. Embedded Learner Board Review

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 37! This week saw the Raspberry Pi Pico turned into a MIDI controller, the MCUZone and SeeedStudio Compute Module released, and an open-source, programmable logic controller seek crowdfunding! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Marco Reps Cosmic Pi Raspberry Pi Cosmic Ray Detector
• Raspberry Pi Podcasting Setup
• Adafruit guide to building a Pi Pico powered Midi Controller, based on Blitz City DIYs Midi Fighter 
• Real-Time Pi Powered Wild Bee Monitor
• Turn Midi into Gcode and make your 3D printer sing! 
• Piper Make - visual programming for the Pi Pico
• LumiCube LED kit for Raspberry Pi on Kickstarter
• MyMicroPLC - An open-source, expandable, easy-to-use Programmable Logic Controller
• Onlogic Pi Compute Module 4 based Mini PC
• SeeedStudio and MCUZone offer even more Compute Module-based boards
• An Ode to Rockbox by Mitxela

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 36! This week saw the Arduino IDE 2.0 beta released, DietPi added Docker and Steam support, the ESP32-M1 seeks crowdfunding, and there’s an early hands-on look at the ESP32-S3! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Super Early hands-on look at ESP32-S3 with Unexpected Maker
• Using Raspberry Pi GPIO pins as radio transmitters
• "The Thresher" A personal grooming device from JoelCreates you'd never want to use
• Bitluni 3d Printed Holographic Displays
• Zack Freedman talks about "Disgusting Secrets of Real Hardware"
• ESP32-M1 Reach Out - long-range Wi-Fi board
• Binary Decoder SMD soldering kit
• Simple Calculator Through Hole Kit
• Arduino IDE 2.0 hits Beta
• Arduino Day 2021
• Free RISC-V training classes from Linux Foundation and RISC-V International
• Embedded World Closing Report
• DietPi 7.0 now has Docker and Steam support

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 35! This week saw an upgradeable and repairable laptop, ESP32-powered Alexa Spotify player, and tons of Pimoroni RP2040 devices! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• WVR now has a webstore
• 3D Printed Articulated Giant Isopod 
• Wireframe teapot on Arduino uses motion sensor for tilting
• DIY Arduino "Hakko" Soldering Station  
• Arduino Lo-Fi Orchestra  
• Magical Alexa CD player uses RFID and ESP32  
• First Look at the Pimoroni Tiny 2040 
• The Secret Life Of Components - a spiritual successor to the Secret Life of Machines 
• Framework - modular, upgradable, repairable laptop: 
• Raspberry Pi Foundation Pi Day fundraiser
• Pimoroni is going ham with the RP2040: 
• NXP Hackathon 2021 is now live

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 34! This week saw a Raspberry Pi Pico-based intruder alarm, Arduino and ESP32 Amazon Alexa development board, and more! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Stray Cat Shelter uses Arduino to deliver food
• Low-power IoT Intruder Detector With Rpi4 + Pico
• Using the Raspberry Pi Pico's PIO to create PWM synthesizers 
• 128 Opto-isolated Input hat for Raspberry Pi
• WVR - Tiny open-source multi-track music player
• MDB-JS Board - Control older vending machines in JavaScript with a Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi is now selling IQaudio products
• ESP32 based board designed for easy Alexa integration

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 33! This week’s highlights include an Nvidia Jetson Nano AI-powered dog trainer, ESP32 smart gardening board, and a Raspberry Pi Pico-based OLED display. Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Using an OLED display with the Raspberry Pi Pico: https://www.electromaker.io/project/view/getting-start-with-raspberry-pi-pico 
• VGA out on the Raspberry Pi Pico using only a resistor ladder: https://youtu.be/RmPWcsvGSyk
• Machine Learning Inference on the Raspberry Pi Pico: https://youtu.be/BrRKcEQxrv4
• Multicore Programming on the Pi Pico: https://youtu.be/aIFElaK14V4 
• Making a Macro Keyboard using the Pi Pico: https://youtu.be/aEWptdD32iA
• Mitch Davis explains PWM on the STM32 https://youtu.be/AjN58ceQaF4 
• Browzen: an Nvidia Jetson Xavier powered mood tracker: https://www.electromaker.io/project/view/browzen 
• Eduponics Mini, an ESP32 driven Smart Gardening board on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/steminds/eduponics-mini 
• Nvidia Jetson Nano powered AI dog trainer: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/11/researchers-teach-dogs-new-tricks-with-nvidia-jetson/ 
• Winners of the Electromaker and Cypress PSoC 6 challenge have been announced: https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/the-great-psoc-6-design-challenge-winners-announced 
• STMicro have a NUCLEO-G491RE development board for the newer STM32G4 chips: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/13/new-stmicro-stm32g4-mcus-target-cost-effective-motor-control-systems-with-up-to-512kb-flash/ 
• New Quartz64 board on the way from Pine64: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/16/pine64-unveils-quartz64-sbc-powered-by-rockchip-rk3566-soc/

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 32! This week’s highlights include a Raspberry Pi-powered Spotify streaming iPod, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Module, Tiny MCU FPGA Dev Board, and more. Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Qomu - Tiny MCU and FPGA dev board
• D-Mark - Open-source ARM board with loads of outputs and super interesting code interpreter 
• Raspberry Pi Foundation add Microsoft repository to Raspberry Pi OS update  
• Original Reddit thread about a Microsoft repo on Raspberry Pi OS 
• Jetson AGX Xavier module for outdoor AI use
• Auto drawing machine 
• Automatic MIDI slide whistle playing machine

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 31! This week saw some neat Raspberry Pi Pico projects, the Tube map drawn on a BBC Micro, and an Inkplate 10 released. Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• BBC Micro emulated on the Pi Pico
• Also Pi pico Goldfish Synth 
• Drawing the Tube map on a BBC Micro
• Birthday Gift swap between two makers - Becky Stern and Estefannie 
• Inkplate 10: Bigger version of the 8" inkplate 
• Ready! Model 100
• Neurostimduino 
• NXP Cup
• Totally Speed 
• CircuitPython Keyboard PCBA