Tag: maker
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Building a Tadpole Camera with Raspberry Pi
Setting up a live camera feed on tadpoles using a Pimoroni Octocam kit and MotionEye OS - broadcasting to Tanooki's schoolfriends as part of their unit on Living Things.
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Parenting with Old Technology
Using an old iPod Classic, iPlayer downloads and a conversion pipeline to give a toddler screen-free entertainment — without resorting to burning CDs like it's the late nineties.
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Google Assistant and Porn Blocking on Raspberry Pi
Building a Google AIY Voice Kit with a three-year-old, then using Pi-Hole to block ads and inappropriate content across the entire home network.
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Planetary Dev Log #1
Exploring low-barrier VR and AR experiences for kids, from Google Cardboard to WebVR experiments.
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Raspberry Pi Pirate Radio
Broadcasting music and read-along stories to a Fisher Price radio over FM using a Raspberry Pi. A fun weekend project for controlling what your kids listen to.
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3D Scanning LEGO R2D2 into Minecraft with an Xbox 360 Kinect
Using an Xbox 360 Kinect, Skanect, binvox and MCEdit to 3D scan a LEGO R2D2 and drop it into a Minecraft world. Also: scanning kids' heads and 3D printing them.
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LED Jacket MK II
Hand-sewing 40 LED lights into a suit jacket for a work Christmas party. Total cost: £11.50 and a minor terrorism scare on public transport.