IoT Smart Water Care System Leverages Nordic’s BLE SoC

From circuitcellar.com 18 hours ago in News

Nordic Semiconductor has announced that ConnectedYard has selected Nordic’s nRF51822 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) SoC to provide the wireless connectivity for pHin, a smart water care solution designed to simplify the care and maintenance of backyard swimming pools and hot...

You’re Listening To Quantum Radio

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a detector that enables the detection of a single photon’s worth of radio frequency energy. The chip is only 10 mm square and the team plans to use it to explore the...

Cloud-Based Geolocation Service is LoRaWAN-Compatible

From circuitcellar.com 18 hours ago in News

Semtech has announced the availability of LoRa Cloud Geolocation, a new cloud-based geolocation service that is compatible with the LoRaWAN protocol and almost any network server. The geolocation service can be easily integrated to provide a low-cost, performance-optimized solution, and...

Rugged IoT Gateways are Based on i.MX6 and Raspberry Pi

From circuitcellar.com 18 hours ago in News

Kontron has announced two new industrial computers, the KBox A-330-RPI and KBox A-330-MX6, specifically designed for cost-sensitive control and gateway applications. The KBox A-330-RPI is based on the long-term available Raspberry Pi Compute Module CM3+ and can therefore use the...

Biohacking : Combining HIIT with a Polarized Training Plan

From blog.adafruit.com 18 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Are you consistently getting faster, stronger and hitting your performance goals? There has been some excellent research conducted on various types of athletes which indicates that “polarized” training plans can have an enormous impact. Marathoners and swimmers who train exclusively...

Adafruit Blinka support for the NVIDIA Jetson series! @NVIDIA #GTC19 @NVIDIAEmbedded

From blog.adafruit.com 20 hours ago in PlatformsStores

We have have Adafruit Blinka support for the NVIDIA Jetson series! Thanks much to Andy https://github.com/atan1021 for the pull request. This much-requested addition unlocks the over-130 CircuitPython libraries we’ve written for everything from LoRa radios, to servo drivers, OLED displays,...

DNL and INL Specifications of a DAC: Interpreting INL Shape

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 21 hours ago in BlogsNews

This article will examine some properties of the DNL and INL specifications.

Hands-On: New Nvidia Jetson Nano is More Power In A Smaller Form Factor

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

Today, Nvidia released their next generation of small but powerful modules for embedded AI. It’s the Nvidia Jetson Nano, and it’s smaller, cheaper, and more maker-friendly than anything they’ve put out before. The Jetson Nano follows the Jetson TX1, the...

Social Media Jacket Puts Your Likes On Your Sleeve

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The great irony of the social media revolution is that it’s not very social at all. Users browse through people’s pictures in the middle of the night while laying in bed, and tap out their approval with all the emotion...

ESP8266 based Lixie Clock #3dprinting #3dthursday

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

xSnowHeadx shared this project on Thingiverse! I already own some real nixie clocks and so want to have a lixie looking and acting as similar as possible like the nixies. So, based on Folkers lixie digit, I created digit positions...

Teach Kids about Science with Drones #drone #droneday

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Guest post by Emily Folk on The Drone Girl:You hear about STEM, and while drones certainly can teach kids about engineering or computer programming, you can use drones for a variety of science-related lesson plans. Drones are being used for...

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express 4-H edition approved! @adafruit @4H #4H #4HGrowsHere

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

“4-H grows confident kids with life skills to thrive in today’s world & succeed in their boldest dreams tomorrow.” About a year ago Adafruit started the process of working with 4H to have an official 4H branded version of Circuit...

Inside Game of Thrones: A Story in Prosthetics

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Excited/terrified/emotionally-exhausted that Game of Thrones is returning for its final season? So are we. But we can’t help feeling the hype anyway. Check out this behind the scenes video from HBO on how the prosthetics team gets the army of...

Intel, Cray Win U.S. Exascale Deal

From www.eetimes.com 1 day ago in News

The first of three U.S. systems, worth a total of $1.8 billion and capable of exaflop performance, will be built at Argonne National Lab by Intel and Cray.

Google Employee Set a New World Record for Pi #PiDay

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Emma Haruka Iwao calculated Pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits. Via CNN:“It was my childhood dream, a longtime dream, to break the world record for pi,” Iwao told CNN Business. She has been working toward this moment since she was 12, when...

Running a Flask Application as a Service with Systemd

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When you deploy your application on a server, you need to make sure the application runs uninterrupted. If the application crashes, you'd want it to automatically restart, and if the server experiences a power outage, you'd want the application to...

Es’hail-2: Hams Get Their First Geosynchronous Repeater

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

In the radio business, getting the high ground is key to covering as much territory from as few installations as possible. Anything that has a high profile, from a big municipal water tank to a roadside billboard to a remote...

NEW PRODUCTS – Pimoroni Inky wHATs (ePaper/eInk/EPD) – Red/Black/White + Black/White

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

NEW PRODUCTS – Pimoroni Inky wHATs (ePaper/eInk/EPD) – Red/Black/White + Black/WhiteWe’ve got these in two flavors! First up, the Red/Black/White!In the beginning there was Inky pHAT, a triumvirate of eInk bonnets from Pimoroni. And now, Pimoroni has upped their electronic paper displays to 4.2″ glorious inches! Say...

U.S. Court Finds Apple Infringed Qualcomm IP

From www.eetimes.com 1 day ago in News

A U.S. federal court found that several iPhone models infringe on patents held by Qualcomm, a major setback for Apple in the patent fight between the two companies that has been unfolding in several jurisdictions throughout the world.

‘Apollo 11’ Documentary Soundtrack Features Electronic Sounds Of 1969 #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

via SynthopiaThe highly-acclaimed film (currently rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes) features a score by composer Matt Morton, who chose to score it using an expanded palette of orchestra + electronics – but only using instruments that would have been available...

Hack Chat: The Home Machine Shop with Quinn Dunki

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Home Machine Shop Hack Chat! Even if you haven’t been here for very long, you’ll probably recognize Quinn Dunki as Hackaday’s resident consulting machinist. Quinn recently did a great series of...

Pick ‘n Place in Slow Motion #ManufacturingMonday @adafruit (video)

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Happy Manufacturing Monday from Adafruit! Video of our pick ‘n place machine picking and placing in slow motion. This Samsung SM-482 “Pick-and Place” machine (aka PnP) PICKs individual surface mount components from feeders and then PLACEs those components onto pre-programmed...

Synthenada, an Empanada Synthesizer #MusicMonday

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Alex Glow totally wins Pi Day with this flaky crusted tune maker:The story broke late last year: you can use Vegemite as conductive paint. That means you can replace solder, Bare Conductive paint, or any other conductive substrate with it!...

An Electronic Billboard for N Scale Model Railroading #models #FromTheForums #Adafruit @Adafruit

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

From the Adafruit Forums, user modeller has posted some great photos and information on their model railroading efforts.Hey all – been gone for a few years but recently ordered a box o’ parts from Adafruit. What I’m making now is...

MusicMakers022: Ben Parker (Nosferatu D2 / Tempertwig / Superman Revenge Squad)

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

MusicMakers is an interview series from Adafruit that explores the intersection of the DIY music and maker communities. We’ll be talking to some of our favorite musicians about art, tech, DIY, gear tips and more. Along the way we hope...

Exploring The Science Behind Luther’s Body in The Umbrella Academy

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

An interesting look at what makes Luther from The Umbrella Academy so unique via SyFyWireOf the seven children, we’re going to focus on one. Namely, we’re going to focus on No. 1, aka Spaceboy, aka Luther, Hargreeves’ personal favorite and...

Hitchhiking to the Moon for Fun and Profit

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

On February 22nd, a Falcon rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying the Indonesian communications satellite Nusantara Satu. While the satellite was the primary payload for the mission, as is common on the Falcon 9, the rocket had a couple...

Symbolics.com, the first commercial address registered on the Internet #Internet #History #makerbusinessmonday #makerbusiness

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Internet domain names turned 34 March 15th. This convention that puts a human-friendly face to the Internet has played a tremendous role in how all of us who do business on the Internet present ourselves and find each other. Check...

Tuesday’s Newsletter: IoT Tech Focus

From circuitcellar.com 1 day ago in News

Coming to your inbox tomorrow: Circuit Cellar’s IoT Technology Focus newsletter. Tomorrow’s newsletter covers what’s happening with Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology–-from devices to gateway networks to cloud architectures. This newsletter tackles news and trends about the products and technologies needed to...

Robot Archaeology: the Big Trak #Robots #ReverseEngineering

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Another robot from back in the day:BIG TRAK is a programmable electric vehicle created by Milton Bradley in 1979, resembling a futuristic Sci-Fi tank / utility vehicle, possibly for use on the Moon or a Planetoid style environment. The original Big Trak was a six-wheeled (two-wheel drive) tank with a front-mounted blue “photon beam” headlamp, and...