Roll Your Own Photo Sharing, Minus the Social Networking Baggage From hackaday.com 4 hours ago in Blogs [Niklas Roy] rolled his own photo diary, because he found the core functionality of something like instagram attractive, but didn’t want the social network baggage that it came with. His simple system is called my own insta ;) and it...
The Mystery Of A Particular ATtiny85 Fuse From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs First-timers playing with 8-bit micros such as the AVR and PIC will at some point in their lives, find themselves locked out of their MCUs. This is usually attributed to badly configured fuses that disable certain IO functions rending the...
Power Density Roundup: New Assets in a Power Engineer’s Toolbox From www.allaboutcircuits.com 7 hours ago in BlogsNews Power manufacturers are increasingly drilling down on power density as a priority. Here are a few recent updates around the industry.
Coaxial Connectors, Starting With The PL259 From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs For the casual breadboard experimenter with a microcontroller and a few peripherals, there’s little concern over interconnects as a set of jumper wires will suffice. But as any radio amateur will tell you though, at higher frequencies it’s a very...
Wireless Mouse Gets a Charging House From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs Mouse batteries always seem to die at the worst possible moment, like when you’re in the middle of pwning noobs or giving a presentation at work. [AyhamAS] was tired of having to look around for a replacement battery and decided...
Linux Fu: VPN for Free with SSH From hackaday.com 13 hours ago in Blogs If you see a lot of banner ads on certain websites, you know that without a Virtual Private Network (VPN), hackers will quickly ravage your computer and burn down your house. Well, that seems to be what they imply. In...
Capacitive Sensors Are Changing the Way We Interact With Cars From www.allaboutcircuits.com 13 hours ago in BlogsNews This week, Austrian company ams released a new capacitive sensor to perform hands-on detection. This announcement reflects a trend in capacitive sensors leading the charge in automotive HMIs.
Escape Tunnel In Your Living Room: A Different Take On The Infinity Mirror From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs Most infinity mirrors are just minor variations on the same old recipe. Take a frame, add a normal mirror in the back, a one-way mirror on the front, and put some LEDs between them. [Stevens Workshop] took a slightly different...
Song Exploder Volume 2 to Launch December 15 #MusicMonday From blog.adafruit.com 15 hours ago in PlatformsStores Chances are if you’re a fan of Song Exploder you’re all caught up on this new but for those of you who are not familiar – Song Exploder is a podcast and now show on Netflix where musicians tell the...
The IoT Monthly newsletter is out next week, subscribe now! #IoT #newsletter #adafruit @adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores The IoT Monthly newsletter is the best place for the latest news involving internet of things frameworks, projects, news, devices, protocols, and more! 2,988+ readers and growing!This newsletter is only sent to your inbox once per month – don’t miss your chance to...
The Cost of Moving Atoms in Space; Unpacking the Dubious Claims of a $10 Quintillion Space Asteroid From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs The rest of the media were reporting on an asteroid named 16 Psyche last month worth $10 quintillion. Oddly enough they reported in July 2019 and again in February 2018 that the same asteroid was worth $700 quintillion, so it...
Using Genetic Engineering to Understand Life’s Earliest Stages From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores via The Johns Hopkins News-LetterIn his research, Kalhor used gene editing technology to insert snippets of genetic elements into the mouse genome. But instead of these snippets affecting the resulting phenotype — the observable characteristics resulting from genes — the...
The MakeCode monthly newsletter is out next month – sign up now! #MakeCode #Adafruit @MSMakeCode @Adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores The monthly newsletter for all the happenings in Microsoft MakeCode! Adafruit has a great monthly newsletter devoted to all things relating to Microsoft MakeCode! Full of information for Makers, educators, enthusiasts and gamers. Sign up at www.adafruitdaily.com right now to be sure...
Booting a PC from a vinyl record #VintageComputing #IBMPC From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to...
A great Python on Microcontrollers newsletter is out tomorrow, subscribe! #CircuitPython #Python @CircuitPython @micropython @ThePSF From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores The Python on Microcontrollers newsletter – get the latest news from one source The Python on Microcontrollers newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware. 8,250+ readers and growing!Catch all the weekly news on Python for Microcontrollers with adafruitdaily.com.This ad-free, spam-free weekly...
Asus releases Tinkerboard 2 and 2S in Raspberry Pi form factor #Tinkerboard @ASUS From blog.adafruit.com 16 hours ago in PlatformsStores Tom’s Hardware reports the Asus Tinkerboard SBC line is getting new boards. The Tinkerboard 2 and Tinkerboard 2S will feature a form factor close to that of the Raspberry Pi.Both boards are designed to use the Rockchip RK3399 chipset and...
Introducing: The Harpsichord #MusicMonday From blog.adafruit.com 17 hours ago in PlatformsStores Lovely, educational video from Brandon Acker.n this episode of “Introducing,” Brandon Acker interviews Jason Moy to learn about the harpsichord. www.jjmoy.comRead more.
Dinosaurs Might Have Ruled Forever From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in PlatformsStores According to a new study, Fantasia might have misrepresented the cause of the decline of the dinosaurs. While it has long been believed that dinosaurs were in decline before a massive asteroid impact, researchers at the University of Bath and...
A neural network learns when it should not be trusted From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in PlatformsStores MIT researchers have developed a way that could enhance the safety and efficiency of AI-assisted decision making.They’ve developed a quick way for a neural network to crunch data, and output not just a prediction but also the model’s confidence level...
STONE HMI ESP32 Weather Station using STVC101WT-01 TFT LCD module From www.electronics-lab.com 19 hours ago in Blogs As we all know, China is one of the most serious meteorological disasters in the world.... The post STONE HMI ESP32 Weather Station using STVC101WT-01 TFT LCD module appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.
Flying Astronauts to Space Is Never Routine From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in PlatformsStores Super interesting piece from The Atlantic about safety and space flight.SpaceX’s first attempt to fly astronauts to space and back was, from start to finish, a success. The launch into orbit—seamless. The spacecraft’s arrival at the International Space Station—smoothly done....
Lead Acid Battery Voltage Monitor using ATMEGA328 From www.electronics-lab.com 20 hours ago in Blogs Monitoring the voltage level of a 12V Lead Acid Battery (SLA) is easy and simple with... The post Lead Acid Battery Voltage Monitor using ATMEGA328 appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.
New Light-Powered AI Chip Tries to Mimic Human Brain From www.electronics-lab.com 20 hours ago in Blogs Researchers at RMIT University have developed a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that works by... The post New Light-Powered AI Chip Tries to Mimic Human Brain appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.
Tiny Arduino-compatible XIAO board from Seeed Studio Gets a Powerful Expansion Board From www.electronics-lab.com 20 hours ago in Blogs Earlier this year, Seeed Studio released the small but powerful Seeeduino XIAO board which has become... The post Tiny Arduino-compatible XIAO board from Seeed Studio Gets a Powerful Expansion Board appeared first on Electronics-Lab.com.
Craters and Collapse on Mars From blog.adafruit.com 21 hours ago in PlatformsStores It may be difficult to see how deep these craters go, but in the above image from Mars Express’ High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), a piece of Martian terrain fell more than four kilometers. Here’s more on the astonishing dynamisn...
FengYun-2H/G Geostationary Weather Satellite Now Decodable with 120cm Dish (Europe to Australia Coverage) From www.rtl-sdr.com 21 hours ago in Blogs Hot on the heels of the GOES-13 weather satellite decoder that we posted about a few days ago, @aang254 has just released a new RTL-SDR compatible decoder for the FengYun-2H, 2G and possibly 2E geostationary weather satellites. The FengYun-2 line...
$89 Lite3DP resin 3D printer fits in the palm of your hand (Crowdfunding) From www.cnx-software.com 21 hours ago in News I thought Selpic A-star 3D printer we recently covered was already small, but if you’re looking for an ultra-portable printer, it will be hard to beat the Arduino-based, open-source hardware Lite3DP resin 3D printer that can fit in the palm...
Booting a PC from Vinyl for a Warmer, Richer OS From hackaday.com 22 hours ago in Blogs If you’ve scrolled through the list of boot options offered on any PC’s BIOS, it reads like a history of storage technology. Up top we have the options to boot from disk, often a solid-state drive, then USB disk, optical...
Walmart in El Paso delivers coronavirus tests by drone #drone #droneday From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in PlatformsStores Throughout the pandemic we have seen drones aiding with deliveries. Now a hard hit area in Texas is getting some drone support from Walmart.Via KGNS:The free delivery is available for people in single-family homes within a one-and-a-half-mile radius of the...
The Drone Girl and Fiona Lakes on How to Get Paid to Speak at Drone Conferences #drone #droneday From blog.adafruit.com 23 hours ago in PlatformsStores The Drone Girl talks with Fiona Lakes on getting paid to speak at conferences:Speaking at drone conferences can be a great way to build your business and gain clients. It can establish yourself as a thought leader. Give a great...