New Features of Intel Gemini Lake Processors – HDMI 2.0, 10-bit VP9 Codec, 4-Wide Pipeline, and More From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News Most recent low power Intel mini PCs are now based on Apollo Lake family with SoC such as Celeron N3450 or Pentium N4200, but we’ve known for a while that Gemini Lake processors will succeed...
Fridge Compressor to 2-Stroke Engine: JB Weld for the Win From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs We like this one because it has a real Junkyard Wars feel to it: turning a cast-off fridge compressor into a two-stroke internal combustion engine. [Makerj101] is doing this with tooling no more complicated than a hacksaw and a hand drill. And...
Wrist Flick Drum From www.kobakant.at 1 day ago in Blogs Made during PIFcamp 2017, this textile sensor detects the impact of a conductive pendulum slapping against the wristband when the wrist is twisted back and forth in a flicking action. The conductive pendulum is made from a small heavy stone...
A gas model made of magnets From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Magnets are great stuff and everyone loves them, there are so many things you can do with them, including creating a model of the crystalline structure of solids, just as [Cody´sLab] did using a bunch of magnets inside a pair...
September Circuit Cellar: A Sneak Preview From circuitcellar.com 2 days ago in News The September (326) issue of Circuit Cellar magazine serves up a meaty selection of useful technology resources along with inspiring, interesting embedded electronics design articles. Not a Circuit Cellar subscriber? Don’t be left out! Sign up today: CC Magazine –...
Swedish Rocket Knives From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs There are trends in YouTube videos among various video producers. A few weeks ago, it was all about fidget spinners until some niche tech blog ran that meme into the ground. Before that, the theme was red-hot knives cutting through...
ECDREAM A9 Apollo Lake HDMI “TV Stick” Review with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 17.04 From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News The ECDREAM A9 is arguably the first Intel Apollo Lake ‘PC stick’ available for purchase. However, in reality it is surprisingly large, and when compared to earlier Intel Atom...
A Museum Floats Down the Chicago River #ArtTuesday From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores via HYPERALLERGIC A river cuts across Chicago, flowing past Bucktown in the north and Chinatown in the south before emptying out into Lake Michigan. More than the lakefront, the Chicago River belongs to the people, reaching neighborhoods outside of the...
Building A Motorized Barrel Boat From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs [Rinoa Super-Genius] shows us in a video how to build a crude motorized barrel boat using only a few parts, including pontoons for extra buoyancy and stabilisation. Building a barrel boat is simple. All you really need is a plastic barrel,...
Auto Security: Do Feds Have Our Back? From www.eetimes.com 3 days ago in News Government agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. are working to get ahead of the curve and let the public know that they are concerned about vehicle cybersecurity.
20 Common Linux Commands Every Sysadmin – and You! – Should Know From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Rosemary Wang for opensource.com has a great rundown of 20 Linux commands every sysadmin should know – from commands as simple as ls or chmod to network-specific commands like iptables and netstat. And Rosemary does a wonderful job of explaining...
From Handheld Bandsaw To Shop Bandsaw From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs If you grow up around a workshop then the chances are that you’ll have the most respect for saws. Formative years being constantly warned by parents about their risks leave an indelible mark on the nascent maker, and leave them...
A Classic UK Synth in Your Browser, Free and Open Source #MusicMonday From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores via CDM Pink Floyd, the BBC (Hitchhikers’ Guide and Doctor Who), and Tangerine Dream all used the original. Now the Synthi A gets a free homage in your Web browser. Synthi-JS, the JavaScript Synthi, is a pretty nice place to...
Sony Spritzer is an Arduino Compatible Board with Built-in GPS, Audio Codec From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News Look who is joining the maker community! Sony has showcased their Arduino compatible Spritzer board during the Maker Faire Tokyo on August 5-6. Despite lacking on-board network connectivity, the...
17th Century Traveling Library From blog.adafruit.com 5 days ago in PlatformsStores This library inside a book is the cutest ancient kindle ever! Via My Modern Met: This 17th-century Jacobean traveling library is a beautifully crafted wooden case created to house a miniature book collection. According to the University of Leeds, the...
Using Raspberry Pi as an Automatic MIDI Logger @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi From blog.adafruit.com 6 days ago in PlatformsStores via Joonas Pihlajama’s Code and Life During my summer holidays I got an interesting idea: Pianoteq has a very nice feature of “always on MIDI logging” that saves everything you play on your keyboard while Pianoteq was on. I’ve previously made...
Sailing Pi: GPS Tracking in Your Boat @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi From blog.adafruit.com 6 days ago in PlatformsStores via The MagPi My weekly sailing crew asked for a way to visualise where we had been, and for a live display of the true speed over ground to see whether we were fighting tides. This project delivers both, without...
Decoding Enigma Using A Neural Network From hackaday.com 6 days ago in Blogs [Sam Greydanus] created a neural network that can encode and decode messages just as Enigma did. For those who don’t know, the Enigma machine was most famously used by the Germans during World War II to encrypt and decrypt messages....