A low-profile version of full-featured software radio based on Raspberry Pi Pico (fully open source + detailed explanation)

With just a Raspberry Pi Pico, an analog switch and an op amp, you can build a powerful SDR receiver covering the LW, MW and SW bands. Capable of receiving signals from halfway around the world.

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HDMI to MIPI module, mobile phone screen into display (produced by Zhihuijun)

The quality of mobile phone screens is very high and the price is low. It is almost impossible to find mini displays made of mobile phone screens on the market, so this project is to solve this demand.

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A tiny FIDO2 security key for two-factor authentication and passwordless login

Somu is a small FIDO2 security key that you can use with your Google, Twitter, and GitHub accounts for two-factor authentication, or with your Microsoft account for passwordless login.

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Make a USB-C power supply (understand the principles of USB-PD in depth, including schematics and English design instructions, etc.)

A simple power supply design based on USB-PD, USB-PD allows to provide voltage up to 20V (current up to 5A), the author shared his design details, you can have an in-depth understanding of the working principle of USB-PD.

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Starfish: an open source project for motor control board using component pick-and-place of RP2040 and TMC2209

Starfish is a pick and place machine control board built on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and Trinamic TMC2209 motor driver. This control board has some similarities to a 3D printer control board, but it has some unique issues to solve—including controlling solenoids and communicating with vacuum sensors. All board information is open source, and detailed explanations are provided to help you copy successfully.

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Raspberry Pi microcontroller 100Msps dual-channel oscilloscope software and hardware are fully open source, including detailed instructions

The current design solution uses an 8-bit ADC chip ADC08100 and a 100M bandwidth front-end analog circuit. In fact, if you want to play, you can improve the indicators and use AD9288 or the domestic alternative MXT2088. One chip has two channels and achieves a 250M sampling rate through rapid alternating sampling.

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Small UAV based on Espressif ESP32-S2/ESP32

ESP-Drone can be connected and controlled through Wi-Fi network using mobile APP or game controller. Currently, it supports multiple modes such as self-stabilizing flight, fixed-altitude flight, and fixed-point flight. This solution has a simple hardware structure, clear code structure, supports function expansion, and can be used in STEAM education and other fields.

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Novena: an open source computer based on Freescale and Xilinx FPGA, designed for use as a desktop, laptop or standalone board

Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer tightly coupled with Xilinx FPGA. It is designed for users who care about free software and open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all documentation for the PCB is open and freely downloadable, the entire operating system can be built from source, and it Comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping.

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Plant Bot: an open source project for caring for potted plants based on ESP32

Plant Bot is an open source project based on ESP32 that allows a single PCB to perform the functions of detecting humidity, watering, providing lighting, and controlling and communicating with the user via WiFi/BLE.

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Tah: Arduino-compatible BLE platform, which can be used as beacons, microcontrollers and HID devices (including schematics, source code, etc.)

Tah - Control anything from your smartphone, open source, Arduino-compatible Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) platform that can be used as a beacon, microcontroller, and HID device.

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PiEEG: A brain-computer interface based on Raspberry Pi that can measure EEG, EMG and ECG biological signals

A Raspberry Pi board is used as the processor to process eight brain electrical signals in real time.

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battery powered fluorescent lamp

Battery-operated fluorescent lighting projects often appeared in hobby electronic magazines in the 1980s. I always thought that fluorescent lamps were devices that only used AC power at that time. Those articles about using batteries to light miniature fluorescent lamps attracted me. I made some fluorescent lights, but I couldn't get good practical use out of them from a lamp efficiency and longevity perspective. That's because I was just reading the article and knew nothing about the theory of discharge lamps or even electronics. I don't know what to change to get good results, and I'm losing interest in it. However I found a battery powered fluorescent light project online that was identical to the schematic I was working on. So I "revived" the project after 30 years with modern driver circuits and correct theory.

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BPW34 photodiode acts as a solar cell to make a supercapacitor watch (schematic diagram, etc.)

The standby time is acceptable and in good condition, more than 7 days.

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DIY handheld gamma ray spectrometer based on Raspberry Pi Pico

Although Geiger counters can be used to detect amounts of radiation, and with some tricks can also differentiate between the three types of radiation (alpha, beta, and gamma), their use is limited in identifying radioactive materials. For this purpose, gamma-ray spectrometers come in handy.

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ESP32+RP2040 two-in-one design board (schematic and PCB)

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TJBot, a DIY cardboard robot open sourced by IBM

Maker Kits are a set of DIY open source templates for building things using IBM AI services in fun and easy ways. IBM TJBot is the first maker kit in the series. You can 3D print or laser cut the robot's body and then bring it to life using the resources provided by IBM! Additionally, you can unleash your creativity and create new recipes, using any of the available IBM AI services to bring TJBot to life! TJBot only works with Raspberry Pi.

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The early mobile phone system PalmOS was ported to Raspberry Pi RP2040

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Computer vision tool GluonCV: recognition, detection, segmentation, pose

CluonCV provides an implementation of state-of-the-art (SOTA) deep learning models in computer vision. It is designed for engineers, researchers and students to quickly prototype products and research ideas based on these models.

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Using Raspberry Pi Pico, a miniature Mars probe with an arm (schematic, PCB, 3D printing, source code, etc.)

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DeepLabCut: Marker-free pose estimation for animals performing various tasks

Label-free pose estimation from user-defined features via deep learning for all animals

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