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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Blimpduino-2 - open source blimp (source code and schematics, etc.)

Bllimpduino 2 is a very low cost open source autonomous airship. It consists of Arduino M0 airship controller board and on-board WIFI and laser sensors. Two vector differential thrusters and one lift thruster. The design is simple, yet exciting.

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Arduino dual combination: based on iMX8 and STM32H747 development boards

Portenta X8 is a powerful industrial-grade SOM with a pre-installed Linux operating system onboard and can run device-independent software thanks to its modular container architecture. Securely perform OS/application OTA updates with onboard Wi-Fi/Bluetooth® Low Energy connectivity. It is basically two industrial products combined into one, with a power of no less than 9 cores. Utilize the Arduino environment to perform real-time tasks, while Linux handles high-performance processing. Portenta X8 features NXP® i.MX 8M Mini Cortex®-A53 quad-core up to 1.8GHz per core + 1x Cortex®-M4 up to 400MHz, and STMicroelectronics STM32H747 dual-core Cortex®-M7 up to 480Mhz +M4 32-bit Arm® MCU, up to 240MHz.

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SwarmDrive: Development board for motor experiments based on ESP32

SwarmDrive based on ESP32 has rich teaching documents, professionals and students can use it to easily learn various commutation algorithms and related knowledge of BLDC motors.

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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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Picoclick: Small and simple IoT button

Picoclick is a simple IoT button in a very small package. The size of the PCB is only 18x20mm, and the height with the 300909 battery is only about 10mm. It's able to connect to your local WiFi at an impressive speed of about 1.5 seconds on average. Yes, since it calls IOT-Button, it uses WiFi of course! This opens up countless possibilities for that little device.

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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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51 microcontroller to make alarm clock

Use the Android cable to connect the voice chip and connect it to the computer. At this time, there is a removable disk on the computer, and then put the sound file into the removable disk... Materials used: Voice playback module Yabo 51 microcontroller (refer to this microcontroller The digital tube and the 8 free IO ports can be used) 3 10k resistors... Put the sound file into the voice chip and connect the data line and power line to the microcontroller. Use the keil tool to generate the hex file from the c program. And write it into the microcontroller...

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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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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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Picoclick-C3: Small WiFi and BLE IoT button for multiple applications

Picoclick-C3 The name relates to its new processor, the ESP32-C3, a single-core RISC-V 160MHz CPU. Picoclick C3T is a small WiFi and BLE IoT button suitable for a variety of applications. Originally designed for smart homes, Picoclick can also be used as an actuator for IFTTT automation or as an MQTT device. It is based on the single-core ESP32-C3 RISC-V processor, so it has a lot of useful features. The C3T measures just 10.5mm x 18mm.

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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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Idiotware Shield: Adapted to Arduino, a simple and fast IoT learning platform (including schematics, PCB, source code, etc.)

Idiotware Shield is a learning platform that can quickly implement hundreds of Arduino projects, whether you are a novice or an expert. The Idiotware Shield is the Swiss Army Knife of Arduino shields, with a host of integrated inputs and outputs and options for connectivity and expansion.

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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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icebreaker++-ram: icebreaker FPGA board, upgraded with ECP5 (+extra RAM)

​It is a very beautiful and convenient little board. But it has a small flaw, the ice40 FPGA it uses is very simple, and it's generally fun to see people doing exciting projects with 5k LUTs. Sometimes it's convenient to have some extra space available when experimenting.

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Based on STM32H747, Arduino® Nicla vision development board schematic

Arduino® Nicla Vision is a ready-to-use standalone camera for analyzing and processing images at the edge. It's suitable for asset tracking, object recognition and predictive maintenance thanks to its 2MP color camera, smart 6-axis motion sensor, integrated microphone and distance sensor. Quickly implement sensor nodes that send collected data to the Arduino® Cloud (or third-party vendor service) via integrated WiFi/BLE connectivity.

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Esai source code pure electric vehicle motor drive and vehicle control system based on DSP and bidirectional Z-source inverter

This project applies the bidirectional Z-source inverter to the motor drive system of pure electric vehicles. Using TMS320F2808 DSP as the control core, the SVPWM control technology based on the Z-source inverter is implemented.

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