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Workbench 01

Raspberry Pi

This workbench follows my attempts at smart devices that run on a Raspberry Pi. The goal is a small machine that can see, listen, speak, and automate most of the room without using much power.

8 projects2014 to 20261 Raspberry Pi at a time

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From the journal

Long form notes behind the projects, including the parts that failed first.

Python

Making a Raspberry Pi powered AI to play piano

I was inspired by Dan Tepfer to explore my own universe of augmented piano playing: an artificial intelligence that learns piano in real time and improvises in the breaks between my own playing.

September 4, 2017
Automation

Raspberry Pi Aurora Alarm

Auroras are random and give barely an hour of notice. So I built a Raspberry Pi alarm that watches the sky and flashes a light by my bed.

September 3, 2017
Electronics

Open source motion sensor

Instructions for a DIY motion sensor built with cheap parts, an ATtiny85, and a 434MHz RF transmitter.

March 26, 2014
Python

Revisiting my first web app

One year after my first web app, I rewrote it so that it runs on a Raspberry Pi with a third of the computing power.

February 20, 2016

Reference shelf

A short shelf of sources and related reading. Opens in a new tab.