WiringPi Library To Be Deprecated From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs Since the release of the original Raspberry Pi single board computer, the WiringPi library by [Gordon] has been the easy way to interface with the GPIO and peripherals – such as I2C and SPI – on the Broadcom SoCs which...
TDK Announces Series of New Ultrasonic Sensor Disks From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 days ago in BlogsNews The new devices span applications in both liquid and air-based media.
Spartan Edge Accelerator Arduino Compatible Board Combines ESP32 & Spartan-7 FPGA From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News Xilinx Spartan FPGAs have been around for a while, and a few years ago we covered Spartan-6 FPGA boards such as Spartixed and miniSpartan6+. Seeed Studio has now launched another Xilinx Spartan...
PC Hardware Monitor with Nokia 5110 Display and Arduino From www.electronics-lab.com 3 days ago in Blogs Either for benchmarking purposes or as external telemetry to help you stay within the acceptable range... The post PC Hardware Monitor with Nokia 5110 Display and Arduino appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
Testing a PCB Patch Antenna and Radiosonde QFH Antenna for Inmarsat and Iridium Reception From www.rtl-sdr.com 5 days ago in Blogs Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has been testing some antennas for Inmarsat and Iridium L-Band satellite reception. Inmarsat is a satellite service that runs on geostationary satellites, and one can be received from almost anywhere in the world. There...
OLED display audio VU meter – AVR/Arduino project From www.electronics-lab.com 6 days ago in Blogs A volume unit (VU) meter or standard volume indicator (SVI) as it’s sometimes called, is a device which displays the audio... The post OLED display audio VU meter – AVR/Arduino project appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
A Hard Rocking Arduino Visualization Shield From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs Over the summer [ElectroSmash] put the finishing touches on the Arduino Audio Meter, a shield for the Arduino Uno that visualizes various aspects of an incoming audio signal on a set of four 8×8 LED dot matrices. Obsentisibly it’s for...
OpenLeg – The Open Source Robot Leg From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs There’s an old saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but how about doing so with an open source leg? Well, your robots might do so at least, thanks to OpenLeg, a new open source project for building robot...
Scientists develop virtual universe machine to study galaxy formation From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores via SlashGearScientists and astronomers have been studying how galaxies form for a long time and have a new tool to try and figure out how formation happens. A team from the University of Arizona is closer to answering those questions...
Artificial Intelligence Takes On Earthquake Prediction From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Artificial intelligence could grant more advance warning on earth quakes!Via Quanta Magazine:Johnson’s team is among a handful of groups that are using machine learning to try to demystify earthquake physics and tease out the warning signs of impending quakes. Two...
Flux Gate Magnetometers Make A Special Current Probe From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs There are moments when current measurement is required on conductors that can’t be broken to insert a series resistor, nor encircled with a current transformer. These measurements require a completely non-invasive technique, and to satisfy that demand there are commercial...
Meccano Max Gets Hacked From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs There are plenty of “smart” toys out in the marketplace, some with more features than others. Nevertheless, most makers desire complete control over a platform, something that’s often lacking in any commercial offering. It was just this desire that motivated...
Assembly vs. C: Why Learn Assembly? From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 days ago in BlogsNews This article discusses two programming languages, namely, C and Assembly, and presents the need to know Assembly language for programming embedded systems.
Fitness Tracker Hacked Into Optical Density Meter From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs What do fitness trackers have to do with bacterial cultures in the lab? Absolutely nothing, unless and until someone turns a fitness band into a general-purpose optical densitometer for the lab. This is one of those stories that shows that...
A Stylish Home for your Next ESP Project From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs The ESP8266 and ESP32 are fast becoming the microcontroller of choice for, well, everything. But one particular area we’ve seen a lot of activity in recently is home automation; these boards make it so incredibly easy and cheap to get...
GNSS Antennas and Recycling From www.gsm-modem.de 2 days ago in Blogs Everybody talks about protecting the the environment and recycling. The nail antenna comes like 0G from the land of poets and thinkers (Germany). We hit the nail on the head. We don’t just say nail – no we use old,...
Hackaday Podcast 036: Camera Rig Makes CNC Jealous, Become Your Own Time Transmitter, Pi HiFi with 80s Vibe, DJ Xiaomi From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys work their way through a fantastic week of hacks. From a rideable tank tread to spoofing radio time servers and from tune-playing vacuum cleaners to an epic camera motion control system, there’s a...
Homemade Wall Stops Roomba and Other Vacuum Tricks From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs If you have a Roomba, you know they are handy. However, they do have a habit of getting into places you’d rather they avoid. You can get virtual walls which are just little IR beacons, but it is certainly possible...
PCBA Service Review – Comparing PCBWay vs LocoPCB vs PCBGogo vs Seeedstudio From www.electronics-lab.com 2 days ago in Blogs Daniel Eichhorn @ blog.squix.org, shares his experience with some popular PCBA services and documents his finding... The post PCBA Service Review – Comparing PCBWay vs LocoPCB vs PCBGogo vs Seeedstudio appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
Automatic Nerf Blaster via @3Dmakernoob From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores @3DMakerNoob shared on YouTube:Automatic Nerf Blaster via @3Dmakernoob Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D...
Customizable PCB Holder From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Kaffeeapparat shared on Thingiverse:Customizable PCB HolderThis is an improved Version of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3752530 with the main difference being, that it is uses M4 cylindrical head screws instead of countersunk M4 screws. It has also the big addition, that it is adaptable...
TinkerCAD Skeleton Kit From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Carl Jordan shared on Thingiverse:TinkerCAD Skeleton Kit This is not my design. This was a free kit inside TinkerCAD. I just thought I’d share it for those that don’t use TinkerCAD. See picture of TinkerCAD screen showing where to find...
Madame Leota Tombstone Plaque From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Doug and Jessica Hogan shared on Thingiverse:Madame Leota Tombstone PlaqueDownload and enjoy this fan made Madame Leota Tombstone Plaque sculpt and get excited for Halloween all year long! Follow along with us on Instagram as we build and post progress...
Cover for Capacitive Soil Humidity Sensor From blog.adafruit.com 3 days ago in PlatformsStores Leo shared on thingiverse:Cover for Capacitive Soil Humidity SensorThis is a minimalistic cover for the V1.2 Moisture Sensor. The print requires only about 4 grams of material. This cover requires desoldering the connector. To do so, I recommend sacrificing the...
Hackable Ham Radio Multitool Contributes To Long Term Survival Of The Hobby From hackaday.com 4 days ago in Blogs Ham radio, especially the HF bands, can be intimidating for aspiring operators, many being put off by the cost of equipment. The transceiver itself is only part of the equation and proper test and measurement equipment can easily add hundreds...
Camect is an Artificial Intelligence based Universal Camera Hub (Crowdfunding) From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News Every day people are getting more concerned about the security of their homes, families, offices, properties, and other related belongings getting more people investing in products and services that...
Before He Spammed You, this Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox From krebsonsecurity.com 4 days ago in BlogsSecurity A reader forwarded what he briefly imagined might be a bold, if potentially costly, innovation on the old Nigerian prince scam that asks for help squirreling away millions in unclaimed fortune: it was sent via the U.S. Postal Service, with...
Arduino, Accelerometer, and TensorFlow Make You a Real-World Street Fighter From hackaday.com 4 days ago in Blogs A question: if you’re controlling the classic video game Street Fighter with gestures, aren’t you just, you know, street fighting? That’s a question [Charlie Gerard] is going to have to tackle should her AI gesture-recognition controller experiments take off. [Charlie]...
Toradex works with Amazon Web Services and NXP on a cloud-enabled AI demonstration From www.electronics-lab.com 4 days ago in Blogs Toradex leverages Amazon® Web Services (AWS) and NXP® to demonstrate how to simplify the creation of... The post Toradex works with Amazon Web Services and NXP on a cloud-enabled AI demonstration appeared first on Electronics-Lab.
Keeping Clocks On Time, The Swiss Way From hackaday.com 4 days ago in Blogs Could there be a worse fate for a guy with a Swiss accent than to be subjected to a clock that’s seconds or even – horrors! – minutes off the correct time? Indeed not, which is why [The Guy With...