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Hands-On Projects for Makers

Welcome to MakerSpace #06, an all new collection of exciting, hands-on projects! At Maker Space, we care about technology that lets you build your own stuff. It is where you can bring your ideas to life.

Projects

Tracking Planes
Curious about the planes that fly over your home? With some simple and affordable equipment, you can receive their ADS-B signals and uncover detailed flight information.
Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 24.04 supports the Raspberry Pi, bringing a fully fledged Gnome system to the single-board computer. You can even run x86 apps in an emulator.
PWM Buzzer
Use the buzzer to have your MCU play small wake-up melodies, signals, or music to accompany LED animations. The sound might not be a feast for the ears, but it does give your projects a great retro feel.
Pi Pico 2W Web Radio
A Raspberry Pi Pico 2W has enough power to let you create a very usable web radio when you add a DAC chip and an amplifier.
SMS Server
No Internet? No problem: Use Bash, Node-RED, or Python to send and receive SMS text messages and turn your Raspberry Pi into an SMS-based server.
Sending Notifications
If you use sensors with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino in your home network, you may want to get desktop notifications on your Linux PC whenever an interesting event is detected. You can send messages via SSH or through simple TCP connections and display them with notify-send.
PINN: Pi Boot Manager
SD cards are getting larger and cheaper all the time – why not share a card between two operating systems for the Raspberry Pi? The PINN OS installer lets you automate the process.
System Monitor
A tiny screen plugged into a USB port displays current performance data for your Raspberry Pi, as well as most other machines that can run a Python script.
ChirpStack LoRaWAN
ChirpStack's LoRaWAN implementation lets you set up long-range wireless traffic for sensors even if you are far from a WiFi access point.
    
Pi Pico and Friends
The Pi Pico chips are pretty cheap, which has made them hugely popular with hobbyists. This overview helps you decide which of these tiny computers to pick for your project.
Orange Pi RV2
The Orange Pi RV2, an affordable single-board computer, features the RISC-V architecture. We test how it compares to the Raspberry Pi.
Redundant Power
Solar-powered projects sometimes require a parallel power supply to bridge periods of darkness. There are a number of technical pitfalls you need to avoid.
C64 Ultimate
The Commodore brand, under new ownership, is back with an improved, FPGA-based edition of the C64 home computer.
Pimiga 5
Turn your Raspberry Pi 500 into an Amiga 500 with the Pimiga 5 Amiga emulator and gain access to a huge selection of Amiga games, demos, and applications.
pyRTOS
You don't have to learn C to create multitasking applications on a microcontroller. Instead, you can use pyRTOS, a native Python multitasking library, on your next microcontroller project.
NiceGUI Web Apps
With a Raspberry Pi and the NiceGUI Python library you can build a weather station or a Pi Rover app in fewer than 15 lines of Python code.
PictoBlox
Block coding is not exactly new, but block programming of a microcontroller is more exciting than you might think.
MicroPython
The Adafruit NeoPixel (WS2812) is an RGB LED that you can program via a serial protocol. We show you how to control the LED with a few lines of MicroPython.
USB and Microcontrollers
Learn how to enable a microcontroller's USB interface and exchange data with a host Linux machine. We'll first emulate a serial port, then build a pen-drive-type device, and finally create a fully custom data transfer interface.