Hello, And Please Don’t Hang Up: The Scourge of Robocalls From hackaday.com 3 hours ago in Blogs Over the last few months, I’ve noticed extra calls coming in from local numbers, and if you live in the US, I suspect maybe you have too. These calls are either just dead air, or recordings that start with “Please...
ams Introduces Image Sensor for High-Throughput Manufacturing and Optical Sensing Applications From www.allaboutcircuits.com 4 hours ago in BlogsNews ams has announced its new CSG14K image sensor for Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) that supports the 1” optical format.
New Part Day: A $6 Linux Computer You Might Be Able To Write Code For From hackaday.com 6 hours ago in Blogs The latest news from the world of cheap electronics is a single board computer running Linux. It costs six dollars, and you can buy it right now. You might even be able to compile code for it, too. The C-Sky...
Intrinsyc Open-Q 670 HDK Development Kit Features Snapdragon 670 Processor From www.cnx-software.com 8 hours ago in News Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 670 this August with improved camera capabilities and improved performance, including a near doubling of the performance of the AI Engine over the one in Snapdragon...
MeWe is an Ad-free, Privacy Focused Social Network From www.cnx-software.com 9 hours ago in News This post will be fairly off-topic, but recently Google announced they’d be closing Google+ for consumers. CNX Software has a community about TV boxes and mini PCs with over 12,000 members on...
How To Evolve A Radio From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs Evolutionary algorithms are an interesting topic of study. Rather then relying on human ingenuity and investigation to create new designs, instead, an algorithm is given a target to achieve, and creates “offspring”, iterating in an evolutionary manner to create offspring...
$6 C-SKY Linux Development Board Features GX6605S Media SoC with C-SKY ISA From www.cnx-software.com 11 hours ago in News We’ve got plenty of ultra low cost , media capable Linux boards in recent years, but most of those are based on Arm architecture. More recently RISC-V open source ISA has started to show up in...
A Daylight-Readable Bar Graph Display in the 70s Wasn’t Cheap From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs LEDs weren’t always an easy solution to displays and indicators. The fine folks at [Industrial Alchemy] shared pictures of a device that shows what kind of effort and cost went into making a high brightness bar graph display in the...
New Chip Architectures, Sensors and Trust in Top 10 IoT Trends From www.eetimes.com 13 hours ago in News New special purpose chips, more sophisticated and low-cost sensors, combined hardware and software for trust platforms plus deployment of new wireless technologies will emerge as some of the top strategic IoT technologies and trends over the next five years, according...
Final Day to Pre-Order a Discounted KerberosSDR From www.rtl-sdr.com 15 hours ago in Blogs Today is the last day to pre-order a KerberosSDR in our Indiegogo campaign! More information also available on our KerberosSDR page. First, we'd like to thank all those who've pre-ordered a KerberosSDR unit already. The response has been overwhelming, and we've raised...
USA-Satcom XRIT Decoder Updated From www.rtl-sdr.com 15 hours ago in Blogs USA-Satcom is the programmer of XRIT Decoder (not to be confused with XRITDecoder by CM2ESP), which is a popular (paid) Windows decoding application for GOES weather satellites. Recently, over on the SDRplay forums RSP2user made a note about the latest update:...
The Naughty AIs That Gamed The System From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance in the last few years. There’s been plenty of research into neural networks and other technologies, often based around teaching an AI system to achieve certain goals or targets. However, this...
monome – a grid of internally lit tactile pushbuttons @monomes | Light and sound #adabox10 @adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in PlatformsStores monome 40h app demo 1 (11 years ago) So far we’ve looked at the Yamaha Tenori-on, Nine Inch Nails: “Echoplex” and next up our tour of light and sound – Originally, or prototyped as the “Bitbox (?)“… The monome –...
Hackaday Links: The Eleventh Day Of The Eleventh Month, 2018 From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs For the better part of the last five years, the Great War Channel on YouTube has been covering the events of the Great War, week by week, exactly 100 years later. It’s hundreds of episodes designed for history buffs, and quite...
Belt Up With A Redundant Car Part From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs The toothed belt that turns the camshaft in synchronization with the crankshaft on many motor vehicle engines is something of an under-appreciated component. Unless you are unlucky enough to ave had one fail and destroy your engine, it’s probably something...
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: November 5th – November 11th From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in PlatformsStores ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to,...
How to build STEM toys @TechCrunch by @johnbiggs #STEM #STEAM From blog.adafruit.com 22 hours ago in PlatformsStores How to build STEM toys | TechCrunch. It’s hard to fix the world, but we should try – Fast-forward to today’s fashion for STEM toys. These toys are supposed to do all the work that my father did with me...
3D-Printer Extrudes Paper Pulp Instead of Plastic From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs We’ve seen all sorts of 3D-printers on these pages before. From the small to the large, Cartesians and deltas, and printers that can squeeze out plastic, metal, and even concrete. But this appears to be the first time we’ve ever...
Pittsburgh Python Meetup Nov. 12 Small Snakes: Python for microcontrollers & embedded systems @pghpy @micropython @circuitpython From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Small Snakes: Python for microcontrollers & embedded systems | Meetup. Panel discussion on using Python on embedded systems, microcontrollers , single board computers and other small systems. We’ll discuss the Micropython & CircuitPython frameworks, the challenges of working in resource-constrained...
Amazon will only allow authorized third-party Apple sellers (will not sell Apple HomePod though) @amazon @apple @AceBeach #makerbusiness From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores What Amazon and Apple’s deal means for third-party sellers – Amazon and Apple have stuck an agreement that lets Amazon list the newest Apple and Beats products when they come out, like the iPhone XS and XR. In exchange, Amazon...
Wifi Synth V1 made with @Raspberry_Pi @adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Wifi Synth V1 – Wifi Synth V1 is a sound sculpture that scans wifi and sonifies the available networks. Each network device’s unique MAC address is converted into a sequence of audible fequencies. Signal strength is related to distortion and...
Kinect Visualizer Demo Gives Winamp a Run for Its Money From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Winamp eat your heart out, because thanks to the Microsoft Kinect in the hands of [Samarth] there’s a new way to make your screen dance along with you. He created a music visualizer demo that takes advantage of the 3D...
MicroPython Button Debounce From kaspars.net 1 day ago in BlogsPodcasts Reading and processing button presses with microcontrollers is a lot harder than one could assume because of the signal noise for which we have hardware and software solutions. I couldn’t find a performant software solution for ESP8266 running MicroPhython (Wemos...
RoadTest Review: Molex 2.4Ghz/5Ghz Antenna Kit From goughlui.com 1 day ago in Blogs It’s been another busy weekend getting a few things done – one of which was this review of Molex 2.4Ghz/5Ghz antennas offered through the element14 RoadTest program. While antennas are probably not the most interesting devices to be testing, they’re...
A Fleet of Pressure Washers Powers This Interactive Public Fountain From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Public art installations can be cool. Adding in audience interactivity bumps up the coolness factor a bit. Throw civic pride, dancing jets of water, music, and lights into the project, and you get this very cool pressure washer powered musical...
LED “Nixie” Display From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores This guide updates the Nixe tube from steam-punk to cyber-punk with LEDs and acrylic sheets. From Make: The working principle of the Nixie replica is simple, but effective: Ten transparent plates made out of extruded acrylic sheet (polymethyl methacrylate or...
Robot Never Misses Leg Day From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs We have heard bipedal walking referred to as a series of controlled falls, or one continuous fall where we repeatedly catch ourselves, and it is a long way to fall at 9.8m/s2. Some of us are more graceful than others,...
Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores via MOTHERBOARD Scientists have detected long-lost continents hidden under Antarctica’s ice sheets using data from a satellite that has been dead for five years. The new research, published in Scientific Reports, sheds light on the murky geological history of Antarctica...
Rube Goldberg Machine with Rubber Bands and Marbles From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Incredibly satisfying video from Kaplamino on YouTube. Definitely putting this on the ‘cold, snowed in weekend in February’ inspiration list! The most complicated trick was the stack marble effect at 0:10 (check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UHS8… to learn more about it). The spacing...