21st Century Learning and Teaching

Make your Maker-Life less stressful with some tips and tools You were certainly in some situations where you were shouting and swearing about situations when things didn't work as well as expected as you didn't have the right tools to finish a project... Well, I encountered as well such situations on projects and…

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In this project we’ll show you how to make a WiFi enabled, portable Weather Station using an ESP8266. LINKS BELOW! The software, written by Daniel Eichhorn, uses the Wunderground API to pull weather data. It shows the date, time, current weather conditions, 4-day forecast and even moon phases.

The user interface features lovely typography and icons that makes really a clean layout. The 2.4” TFT Feather Wing combined with the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 make assembling this project incredibly easy. Full Tutorial, Files and Code: https://learn.adafruit.com/wifi-weath...

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As a beginning student of the Arduino environment and aspiring maker, you’ve probably done some experiments with interfacing the board to some external hardware, such as LEDs, relays, sensors, or…

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The new feature will allow Pi owners to write Arduino Sketches to interact with sensors, motors, electronic boards and other hardware attached to the Pi's GPIO pins.

Arduino Sketches can now be used to program the Raspberry Pi, marking a moving together of two of the biggest maker platforms.
The cloud-based Arduino Create platform is designed to simplify the creation of Internet of Things applications.
Want to use the $35 Raspberry Pi computer to build your own hardware but only ever used Arduino boards? Well you're in luck.

If you know how to write programs to control hardware using Arduino boards you can now use the same language to control hardware attached to the Pi, the co-founder of the Arduino Project Massimo Banzi announced yesterday.

Banzi revealed a new feature in the cloud-based Arduino Create service that will compile Arduino Sketches — programs typically used to interact with Arduino boards and attached hardware — into a form that can be run on a Raspberry Pi.

The feature will allow Pi owners to write Arduino Sketches to interact with sensors, motors, electronic boards and other hardware attached to the Pi's GPIO pins.

"The idea is there's a tonne of people that know how to use Arduino and they can take their knowledge and apply it to this," Banzi told the Embedded Linux Conference 2018 in Portland in the US.

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Bastelplatine ist flotter und hat GBit-LAN
Der Raspberry Pi 3B+ hat schnellere ARM-Prozessorkerne, es gibt ac-WLAN für das 5-GHz-Frequenzband und Gigabit-Ethernet. Der Preis der Bastelplatine beträgt 40 US-Dollar.

Pünktlich zum Pi-Tag erscheint der Raspberry Pi 3B+ der Rasperry Pi Foundation. Die Bastelplatine folgt auf den Raspberry Pi 3B und hat trotz der vermeintlich kleinen Namensänderung mehr Neuerungen integriert, als die Bezeichnung Raspberry Pi 3B+ impliziert.

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Today, at Embedded Linux Conference 2018, Arduino announced the expansion of the number of architectures supported by its Arduino Create platform for the development of IoT applications. With this new release, Arduino Create users can manage and program a wide range of popular Linux® single-board computers like the AAEON® UP² board, Raspberry Pi® and BeagleBone® as if they were regular Arduino boards. Multiple Arduino programs can run simultaneously on a Linux-based board and interact and communicate with each other, leveraging the capabilities provided by the new Arduino Connector. Moreover, IoT devices can be managed and updated remotely, independently from where they are located.

To further simplify the user journey, Arduino has also developed a novel out-of-the-box experience for Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone boards, in addition to Intel®  SBCs, which enables anyone to set up a new device from scratch via the cloud without any previous knowledge by following an intuitive web-based wizard. Arduino plans to continue enriching and expanding the set of features of Arduino Create in the coming months.

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Magnet levitation toy using Arduino. Cheap and easy to make!.

Each of the following DIY Arduino projects is covered with detailed step by step tutorial on how to do it yourself and includes circuit schematics, source codes and videos.

This collection of Arduino Projects features:

Wireless control
Automation
Motors control
Robotics
LEDs
and more.

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Learn to design, create, and program electronics
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u8glib - Arduino Monochrom Graphics Library for LCDs and OLEDs

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image2cpp is a simple tool to change images into byte arrays to use with (monochrome) displays suchs as OLEDs, like those from Adafruit or Sparkfun.

While searching for a way to generate these arrays, I mostly found links to a piece of Windows software. Both the flakey results and the hassle of having to boot a virtual machine just to convert an image lead to me writing this pure html + javascript solution.

Alternatively you can also enter a byte array as input to turn it back into an image. This might be useful for debugging, or when you want to write the byte array yourself. I don't know.

Running the tool

You don't need any special dependencies / internet connection; all the necessary parts sit in a single .html file. So just open this index.html page in a (recent) browser to run the tool.

Or you can use the online version at:  

http://javl.github.io/image2cpp/

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BTW: Above shown image is my "MAUSI", which was the "Mascot" for my Cyber-Security courses in Luxembourg EDUcation in 2003-2007. Those courses were mandatory for students up from 12 years old (7èmes).

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Die Arbeitswelt der Zukunft bedingt einen höheren Stellenwert der beruflichen Weiterbildung, so der Präsident des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung (BIBB), Friedrich Hubert Esser. "In einer Arbeitswelt von morgen mit steigenden Datenmengen, kürzer werdenden Halbwertszeiten von Wissen sowie einer erhöhten Flexibilität am Arbeitsplatz ist berufliche Weiterbildung schon lange nicht mehr Kür, sondern Pflicht", betont Esser in der aktuellen Ausgabe der BIBB-Fachzeitschrift "Berufsbildung in Wissenschaft und Praxis - BWP" mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Weiterbildung".

Der digitale Transformationsprozess, der Einsatz von Robotern sowie der wachsende Einfluss künstlicher Intelligenz sorge für bislang nicht gekannte strukturelle Verschiebungen in Arbeits- und Produktionsprozessen. Arbeiten und Lernen werden sich von Grund auf ändern. "Der Umgang mit leistungsstarken IT-Infrastrukturen sowie das Arbeiten und Lernen in Virtual- und Augmented-Reality-Umgebungen oder mithilfe von Erklärvideos und Tutorials sind längst keine Zukunftsmusik mehr", so der BIBB-Präsident weiter.

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In our previous blog post (Tutorial…), we were playing around with a LED MATRIX <===> First Steps with the Arduino-UNO R3 | Maker, MakerED, Coding | Scrolling Text with 8×8 LED MATRIX  <===> and we will continue to use the LED MATRIX, but this time with a Wi-Fi connection. We will use the module “ESP8266” which you can purchase worldwide around as it is very popular and it costs ONLY 7.49 €.

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I bought an Arduino, What now?

Do you want to simulate a program for Arduino without using real components? Then this Arduino Simulator is definitely for you!

Every time you want to test some project you don't need to add real parts anymore!

The Simulator has all the components needed to test basic projects and even larger projects.

Almost all the I/O is present on the Simulator so we can test your code on the monitor screen.

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Wire Library

This library allows you to communicate with I2C / TWI devices. On the Arduino boards with the R3 layout (1.0 pinout), the SDA (data line) and SCL (clock line) are on the pin headers close to the AREF pin. The Arduino Due has two I2C / TWI interfaces SDA1 and SCL1 are near to the AREF pin and the additional one is on pins 20 and 21.

As a reference the table below shows where TWI pins are located on various Arduino boards.

As of Arduino 1.0, the library inherits from the Stream functions, making it consistent with other read/write libraries. Because of this, send() and receive() have been replaced with read() and write().

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, offering a faster CPU and faster wireless throughput than its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ comes exactly two years after the launch of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and is in line with Raspberry Pi Foundation's two-year B+ 'evolution' upgrade.

In other words, the changes don't warrant calling it a Raspberry Pi 4, but there are noticeable improvements, including a faster processor, higher Wi-Fi speeds, and faster Ethernet.

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Two years ago, open electronics had produced “RandA“, an Atmega328-based board for Raspberry Pi to deliver the advantages of both, Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Earlier this month, an updated version of RandA has been released to be compatible with Raspberry Pi 3.

RandA is a development board that leverages the hardware equipment and the computing power of Arduino with its shields, and the enormous potential of the Raspberry Pi. It features Atmega328 microcontroller, has RTC (Real Time Clock) module, power button and sleep timer, connectors for 5 volts and connectors for mounting Arduino shield.

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Lego train level crossing automated by Arduino. Another lego train crash at the lego train level crossing! It turns out that the guy working there just wants to relax all day long. Only one solution: automating the thing!

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An Arduino logo engraved in acrylic with a touch sensitive aluminum LED stand.

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I have often mentioned the wisdom of robot maker and Make: contributor I-Wei Huang who says that you can get away with a lot in a robot creation if you make it cute, characterful, and funny. This comes across in spades with Vorpal, a 3D-printable hexapod with real character and presence. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll fall in love.

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In this tutorial we will learn how to programming the TFT LCD Touch Screen. I used 2.8" TFT Touch Display ILI9325 Module and Arduino Uno for this tutorial.

The topics we will view in this tutorial, Required Libraries, Add Text, Text Color, Font Size, Print Text, Create Button, Button Click, Add Frame, Draw Rectangle and Background Color. 

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Sie suchen Hilfe beim Selbstbau, Zugang zu 3D-Drucker, Lasercutter oder anderen Maschinen? In Fablabs, Makerspaces und offenen Werkstätten wird Ihnen geholfen. Die Makerspacekarte zeigt Ihnen, wo Sie in Ihrer Nähe Unterstützung finden.

Auch wer gerne allein im stillen Kämmerlein werkelt, darf sich Maker nennen. Oft macht es aber gemeinsam mehr Spaß. Im deutschsprachigen Raum gibt es aktuell über 200 Orte, an denen sich die Maker-Community trifft. Diese haben wir in einer Online-Karte zusammengefasst, damit Sie einfach mal nachschauen können, wo in Ihrer Region oder Stadt Gleichgesinnte zusammenkommen.

Von der Grundausstattung mit Werkzeug bis zur Open-Source-Software: alles Wichtige zum Einstieg ins Elektronik-Basteln vermittelt das Make-Sonderheft "Richtig loslegen".

In der Karte finden Sie Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, FabLabs, offene Werkstätten und andere vergleichbare Orte für Maker. Jeder dieser Treffpunkte ist anders ausgestattet und organisiert und setzt unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte. Vom Einraum-Hackspace mit Couch und 3D-Drucker bis zum geförderten Riesen-FabLab mit Dutzenden Profi-Maschinen ist alles dabei.

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In computing, a visual programming language (VPL) is any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.[1][2] A VPL allows programming with visual expressions, spatial arrangements of text and graphic symbols, used either as elements of syntax or secondary notation.

For example, many VPLs (known as dataflow or diagrammatic programming)[3] are based on the idea of "boxes and arrows", where boxes or other screen objects are treated as entities, connected by arrows, lines or arcs which represent relations.

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