Raspberry Pi and Arduino do battle in most popular posts of 2018
We’ll restrict it to stories written within the year, to exclude old favourites from clogging up the list (such as building your own electric kids’ go-kart, plant monitor or trip-wire alarm).
10. How to build an Arduino rotary cell phone to impress the hipsters
A Redditor has converted a 1961 Western Electric Model 500 old-style telephone into a rotary cell phone using Arduino. It’s an impressive project that not only uses the original handset, but maintains the actual bell ringer rather than using an electronic ring.
9. How to build your own VR headset
This one caught my eye on twitter – a 16-year-old in France has built his own open source VR headset. He couldn’t afford an Oculus Rift headset so decided to build his own instead. The cost of the components? It cost $100, apparently, and is based on the Arduino Due.
8. Flutter by, Raspberry Pi
Google’s brand new cross-platform UI toolkit, Flutter, has been shown working with the Raspberry Pi hardware, no less, as a proof of concept for its porting. By creating native ARM code, Google is claiming that Flutter enables the flexibility of cross-platform developing without compromising on performance.
7. Pi Desktop builds your own desktop computer
We’ve got the Pi-top, which builds your Raspberry Pi devboard into a recognisable laptop casing, and here now here comes a Pi Desktop, for a desktop computer base equivalent. Basically it is a desktop computer kit for the Raspberry Pi (both versions 2 and 3).
6. Speech recognition for the Arduino via Android
What’s not to like about a bit of IoT-style speech recognition, using Arduino and Android? That was what first caught my eye for a little prototype project documented on hackster.io. The idea is to drive or control a servo, an LED lamp or some other device connected to WiFi, using an Android app.
5. Raspberry Pi with touchscreen serves Android Auto
It’s an Android Auto head unit, which means I could cover it on the Eyes on Android blog, but the fact it runs on a Raspberry Pi means Gadget Master trumps it! The Gadget Master in question is one Huan Truong, and his Android Auto hack is dubbed “Crankshaft”.
4. DevBoard Watch: Google’s AIY Edge TPU Boards are Raspberry Pi friendly
I’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s AIY kits (“Artifical-Intelligence yourself”) since they launched last year with Raspberry-Pi based designs, and here’s another: the AIY Edge TPU Boards. The first two AIY kits supported relatively low-fi sound and vision processing – AIY Sound and AIY Vision respectively – and this one is aimed at supporting machine learning inferencing. And again it can be used with a Raspberry Pi Zero.
3. DevBoard Watch: Arduino Uno WiFi Rev 2
We must cover the new Arduino devboard recently released, the Uno WiFi Rev 2, with integrated Wi-Fi connectivity in an IoT-friendly form. The board was co-developed with Microchip, and the Uno WiFi Rev 2 is built around the new ATmega4809, a u-blox Nina W102 WiFi module, and an integrated IMU.
2. Raspberry Pi + Cloudio == IoT prototyping
The Cloudio is powered by an Atmel 8bit AVR Atmega32U4 controller, to be precise, and works with Raspberry Pi 1/2/3/0/0W for IoT and cloudy services, all ready for prototyping. It’s particularly aimed at voice, motion, imaging and cloud interaction apps.
1. Would you like software defined radio with your Raspberry Pi?
This is a high-end starter kit for the Raspberry Pi – we’re talking software defined radio – aimed at those looking to build apps with SDR capabilities and peripheral I/O… Maybe you need to detect fainter transmissions, avoiding interference, I don’t know… It seems esoteric to me. You’ll need to know exactly what you are doing with the comms. It comes from Lime Microsystems, in partnership with Seeed Studio, for the LimeSDR platform.