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February 18, 2019More and more devices have USB-C ports as the main interface. Compared to the USB Type-A port, the USB-c port provides a range of powerful features that enable a variety of roles. Smartphones have switched to new USB-C ports due to their faster charging and data transfer capabilities, and many modern laptops have USB-C ports. As mentioned earlier, Apple's MacBook Pro fully embraces this powerful new technology and only supports the USB-C port. According to the site, Apple will likely have its 2019 series of iPhones come with USB Type-C support.
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January 28, 2019Not all of us we’re able to buy or get CrowPi for our own, In Elecrow, we care about all our customers so we crafted a special tutorial on how to use Minecraft magic blocks with NFC chips without CrowPi!
Follow this instructions step by step on your fresh new raspberry pi image in order to get the RFID working on your raspberry pi with RC-522 module and be able to play using RFID Module and the NFC chips!
https://github.com/Elecrow-keen/CrowPi.git clone and install the RC-522 driver from the Drivers/RFID/ directory using the command "python setup.py install"
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December 13, 2018We have been doing with the CrowPi Python Lessons to encourage people to learn electronics, computer science and programming these days.And now they are done so you can do something by yourself with your CrowPi. As we all know, python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language, and now is commonly used in artificial intelligence projects and extensively used in the information security industry, including in exploit development.That’s the reason why we worked out this series of videos to teach you how to programming in python with CrowPi . In addition, you can master the basic common knowledge
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November 30, 2018My neighbor has a little girl with bad arithmetic. This is a headache when her parents direct her arithmetic, so I want to use Crowpi to program a simple calculator to help people who are not good at computing. My idea is to use the 4 independent buttons on Crowpi as +, - , *, /, and then use the 10 buttons on the matrix button to do 0-9 respectively.When I press these buttons, Crowpi Lcd can display the contents of the button I pressed. When I want to get the result, just touch the touch sensor and it will automatically display the result on the LCD. With the basic ideas, let's get started. Of course, the first thing to do is always to import the modules we want to use. import math import time
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May 10, 2018Living on Kickstarter for a week, CrowPi has reached $27,453 covering 91% of the funding goal, it’s just a short way left to bring it to life. But our expectation is far more than bringing it to the hundreds of backers, we expect CrowPi to lead a crowd of young and potential makers to not only consume technology but also create incredible technology. CrowPi is born with the mission of “lead people go from zero to hero with Raspberry Pi”, more than that, CrowPi is designed to be able to make your making easier, so, let’s see what makes it different - the 10 highlights of CrowPi! CrowPi is Raspberry Pi prototyping board attached to 7inch HD LCD touch display with expansion possibilities to add camera & speakers. What highlights CrowPi?
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April 20, 2018Living in this new digital age, children coming out from schools more need to become makers or inventors creating their own ideas and creating incredible technology to build a bright future. The BBC micro:bit was designed to encourage children to get actively involved in the computer education and make new things, rather than just being consumers of technology. So, let’s see how to develop the skills of making with this tiny computer which costs less than $15 - which means, anyone can have a micro:bit! From writing code to sharing your creations, micro:bit is the great way to get kids stepped on the maker journey. Here is a recommended route that will make your kids’ experience as smooth and fun as possible.
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March 30, 2018With years of experience in open source hardware industry and located in Shenzhen which is referred as the largest electronic market of China, Elecrow has developed a mature supply chain in PCB service and wins a good reputation in international electronics hardware communities. Due to the continuous research and concentration on the needs of industry and individual maker, engineer and entrepreneur, Elecrow got down to expand the production lines in 2017 and launched the brand new one-stop solution to hardware project in March, 2018, to be an accessible and cost-effective manufacturing resource for everybody who has ideas to create electronic hardware. What is one-stop solution to hardware project? It means our service covers the entire process of building and bringing
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December 21, 2017
In March 2012, the world’s first card-type Linux microcomputer was launched by Raspberry Pi foundation. Although it’s as small as a credit card in size, it can absolutely work as good as a PC, surfing the Internet, playing 1080P movie and games, editing texts and what’s more, program development are not a big deal for Raspberry Pi. If you are an electronic hobbyist or DIY maker, Raspberry Pi is perfect and the first choice. With some programming knowledge, you can get started with it straight away. In this article, I’m gonna give introductions about each version of Raspberry Pi and their differences, so you can make a right purchase according to your own needs. First Generation of Raspberry Pi The first generation of Raspberry Pi includes 4 versions: A, A+,
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December 16, 2017Micro:bit is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The BBC gave away the computer free to every year 7 child in Britain starting from October 2015(around 1 million devices). Micro:bit now becomes a worldwide popular device. The Micro:bit Foundation aims to put the device into the hands of 2 million children in the U.S. & Canada by 2020. "The goal of the micro:bit is to give educators and parents an easy-to-use tool to teach the basics of computer programming and inspire students to imagine, invent and innovate." said Hal Speed, Head of North America at the Micro:bit Foundation. In Japan, the Micro:bit Foundation's goal is to deliver the micro:bit to 300,000 Japanese children by 2020. In Croatia,
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November 17, 2017Raspberry Pi touch Screen monitor is widely used by the Raspberry Pi fans. They can make Raspberry Pi tablet, game console, TV display with the Raspberry Pi touch screen. Raspberry Pi touch screen is one of the hottest items on Elecrow product list, no matter it's on our own store or on Amazon. Let's see what customers used it for and what's their experiences. Watch TV on Raspberry Pi Screen(Display)
