The problem

You are pushing LateX documents into a repository with all of your friends. Your friends compile the PDF files locally and sometimes push garbage into the repo. Also you want to email your assignments to your tutors. But you are already annoyed by writing commit messages. Opening your email client and dragging and dropping that PDF, for you it’s pain in it’s purest form. This makes you very sad. You ask yourself: What could I do about it?

First of all, why would you want a matepi? Well, that’s an easy one: Because it’s awesome! Here are some demo reels showing three possible applications:

So is it hard? That depends on your prior knowledge of soldering, leds, the raspberry pi and coding. In the end it turned out to be less complex than i feared. What do you need to build one yourself? ...read more