Intel Issues End-of-Life Notices for Galileo / Galileo 2, Edison and Joule Boards & Modules From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News While I’m not sure many of my readers are using them, Intel introduced several IoT development kits and modules over the years, with products like Intel Galileo, followed by Galileo 2, Edison...
Microchip based Orange LoRa Explorer Kit Connects to Orange’s own LoRaWAN Network From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News You’d think Telecom operators with all infrastructure in place would focus their IoT efforts on LTE Cat M1 or LTE Cat NB-IoT, but Orange has setup its own LoRa network in France with the aim of...
Latest quad-core Banana Pi offers SATA support at $32 From hackerboards.com 2 days ago in News SinoVoiP’s open-spec, Linux- and Android-ready “Banana Pi BPI-M2 Berry” SBC has a Raspberry Pi-like layout, WiFi, BT, GbE, HDMI, 4x USB, CSI, and SATA. SinoVoip’s Banana Pi project has introduced a variation on its $40 Banana Pi M2 Ultra hacker...
2017 hacker board survey: Raspberry Pi still rules, but x86 SBCs make gains From hackerboards.com 3 days ago in News The results are in: The Raspberry Pi 3 is the most desired maker SBC by a 4-to-1 margin. In other trends: x86 SBCs and Linux/Arduino hybrids get a boost. More than ever, it’s a Raspberry Pi world, and other Linux...
Convert an old ATX Power Supply into a Bench Power Supply with (or without) 3D Printed Parts From www.cnx-software.com 7 days ago in News You may own one or more old computer towers with an ATX power supply that just gather dust, but since the ATX connector provides +12V, -12V, 5V, 3.3V and GND signal it could be converted into an...
MinnowBoard 3 will offer Apollo Lake, triple M.2s, and Raspberry Pi expansion From hackerboards.com 1 day ago in News Minnowboard.org is prepping an open spec “MinnowBoard 3” SBC with a quad-core Apollo Lake, 4GB LPDDR4, 8GB eMMC, 3x M.2 sockets, and an RPi connector. The Intel-backed Minnowboard.org project has posted preliminary specs for an open-spec MinnowBoard 3 model to...
Portrait & Studio Shots with Japanese Watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Watches By SJX have a fantastic write-up on Japanese watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno, including photographs of his studio and the tools he uses to hand-make wadokei-inspired wristwatches. Despite being just 33 years old, Masahiro Kikuno makes wristwatches by hand in a...
Arduino Uno-driven plotter uses rulers for arms From blog.arduino.cc 1 day ago in PlatformsStores When you see a plastic ruler, you wouldn’t normally assume it was destined to become part of a CNC plotter. Maker “lingib,” however, realized their potential to be combined to form plotter arms, in this case actuated by two stepper...
Making a Wearable NFC Bus Pass From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs [Stephen Cognetta] is trying to get the total number of things he owns down below 115, and he’s always looking for ways to streamline his life. Toward this goal he dissolved his SF Transit Clipper Card in acetone to get...
WeTek and Ugoos Release Android 6.0 Marshmallow Firmware for their Amlogic S905 TV Boxes From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News While there are many models of TV boxes on the market, there are only a few companies that will provide firmware updates over time for their products. Two of those companies are WeTek and Ugoos, both...
First Thoughts on the New ROCK64 Board From www.electronics-lab.com 2 days ago in Blogs Alasdair Allan @ hackster.io writes: The original Pine A64, hailed by many as a “Raspberry Pi killer” during its crowdfunding campaign, shipped to backers to somewhat poor reviews back in 2015. However after a lot of work by the manufacturer,...
tDCS – Electrode Positioning – The 10-20 System From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Clinical studies have shown some positive effects from wearing a tDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) unit on one’s head. The studies are careful to elaborate the exact placement of the electrodes normally using the 10-20 system. There are already proposals...
An Introduction to Motion Sensors: PIR, Tilt, Force, and More From www.allaboutcircuits.com 3 days ago in BlogsNews Learn about various movement-type sensors including accelerometers, tilt sensors, vibration sensors, PIR (passive infrared) sensors, and rotation sensors.
Twenty IoT Builds That Just Won $1000 in the Hackaday Prize From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs Today we’re excited to announce the winners of the Internet of Useful Things phase of The Hackaday Prize. The future will be connected, and this is a challenge to build devices connected to the Internet that are useful. These projects are the...
How To Build Your Own Convertible (For Under $500) From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs It’s a common sight in the farming areas of the world — a group of enterprising automotive hackers take a humble economy car, and saw the roof off, building a convertible the cheapest way possible. Being the city dwelling type,...
DIY Shortcut Keyboard From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs Working with CAD programs involves focusing on the task at hand and keyboard shortcuts can be very handy. Most software packages allow the user to customize these shortcuts but eventually, certain complex key combination can become a distraction. [awende] over...
The Arduino Foundation: What’s Up? From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs The Arduino Wars officially ended last October, and the new Arduino-manufacturing company was registered in January 2017. At the time, we were promised an Arduino Foundation that would care for the open-source IDE and code infrastructure in an open and...
Intel Quark S1000 “Sue Creek” Processor to Support On-Chip Speech Recognition From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News Intel may have announced the end-of-life for several of their IoT boards, but based on some documents I received, the company has not given up on the Quark family, although they may have given up on...
NanoPi NEO NAS Kit Review – Assembly, OpenMediaVault Installation & Setup, and Benchmarks From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News NAS Dock v1.2 for Nano Pi NEO / NEO 2 is, as the name implies, a complete mini NAS kit for 2.5″ drive for NanoPi NEO or NEO 2 board. The NEO 2 board is strongly recommended, since it’s...
Michelin’s concept tire comes wrapped in “rechargeable” 3D-printed treads From blog.adafruit.com 5 days ago in PlatformsStores Via New Atlas Aside from trotting out a new tread pattern every year or so, you might think there’s not a lot manufacturers could do to improve the humble car tire. But advances in materials, sensors and manufacturing techniques are...
FabricKeyboard Is Piano, Theremin And More From hackaday.com 5 days ago in Blogs Two researchers of Responsive Environments, MIT Media Lab, have put to together a device that is an amazing array of musical instruments squeezed into one flexible package. Made using seven layers of fabrics with different electrical properties, the result can be...
Solr: digital wrist watch From tinkerman.cat 5 days ago in Blogs 15 months ago. This is when I started working on this project. The Solr digital wrist watch is a clock that won’t work without a battery but it will neither work without sun. Even more: the vintage display is really cool but...
Controlling a Robot Over the Internet Grows Up From hackaday.com 5 days ago in Blogs Since the beginning of the Internet people have been controlling robots over it, peering at grainy gifs of faraway rec rooms as the robot trundles around. RunMyRobot.com has taken that idea and brought it fully into the teens. These robots...
Sharpening Drills Bits the Hard Way From hackaday.com 6 days ago in Blogs Drill bits are so cheap that when one is too chowdered up to keep working, we generally just toss it out. So you might expect a video on sharpening drill bits to be somewhat irrelevant, but [This Old Tony] makes it...
Make a Plotter Out of Rulers From hackaday.com 6 days ago in Blogs Instructables user [lingib] made a clever and inexpensive pen arm plotter that uses plastic rulers for arms. An inspiring sight for anyone without a bunch of robot parts lying around, The electronics are straightforward, with an Arduino UNO and a...
Cosplay Meets Performance with These Hercules Costumes From blog.adafruit.com 6 days ago in PlatformsStores When cosplayers enter in costume masquerades at conventions, there’s usually a skit and/or performance aspect. A group of women dressed as the Muses from Hercules at Phoenix Comicon and lip-synced “Zero to Hero.” They mimicked the Muses’ different hairstyles and...
Raspberry Turk: The amazing chess-playing robot with a Raspberry Pi hidden inside @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi From blog.adafruit.com 6 days ago in PlatformsStores Check out Joey Meyer’s Raspberry Turk build featured in The MagPi Magazine. Joey Meyer’s Raspberry Turk is an ingenious chess-playing robot that was inspired by the eighteenth-century ‘Mechanical Turk’. While the latter machine had a human player concealed inside to...
Mira, Tiny Robot of Joyful Delight #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi From blog.adafruit.com 6 days ago in PlatformsStores via RaspberryPi.org As one of the many über-talented 3D artists at Pixar, Alonso Martinez knows a thing or two about bringing adorable-looking characters to life on screen. However, his work left him wondering: “In movies you see really amazing things...