Quantum Internet One Step Closer

This is a submission from Distrelec about their collaboration with world-renowned developer of the world’s first open-source electronic prototyping platform Arduino. Distrelec will be the exclusive distributor of their exciting IoT Prime Bundle.

This is one of those projects that many people dream of building, but few actually do all the way. Admit it, you too have thought at least once about automated curtain openers in your bedroom, yet I have only once met a guy who had really done it. This system spouts water at cats to chase them away. I’m gonna build me one of these too, but against pigeons.

Sometimes a project is given such a name that you (read: me!) do not immediately know what it represents or what it does, an ‘Earth Listener’ for example. The description of the product, however, makes things much clearer: ‘The Earth Listener from Velleman is an Arduino-based sensor module that can measure multiple environmental variables in order to indicate the air quality’.

Elektor software developer and lab worker Mathias Claußen was tasked to develop a control for the FM radio on the Raspberry Pi [1] using a touch screen. The platform-independent (GUI) framework Qt has almost become the go-to industry standard to build such interfaces, so the choice was clear. For any developers out there facing similar challenges, Mathias has put together a manual that shows how set up a cross-compiler environment on a PC to allow you to compile Qt applications for the Raspberry Pi from a PC — he also includes a simple demo of course.