Arduino is an easy-to-learn prototyping platform that lets you create interactive electronic projects. This Arduino compatible kit is the one I recommend to people who ask me how to get started. The reason I recommend it is because it’s very cheap and it has a bunch of components that would cost a lot more if you were […]
Excellent starter kit for people interested in learning about Arduino Read More »
One of us (Mailland) grew up in Paris in the 1980s, surrounded by advertisements for racy “pink” chat rooms, accessible through terminals connected to France’s Minitel network. They were a lucrative part of the wider Minitel economy, which also let you send messages, check bank balances, and read news. By 2000, as the Internet displaced
From Trash to Treasure: How to Resurrect a Minitel Terminal Read More »
Medications with anticholinergic properties have been consistently associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes for older adults including cognitive impairment, yet these drugs continue to be commonly prescribed for depression, urinary incontinence, irritable bowel syndrome and Parkinson’s disease. In an editorial published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Pharmacology, co-authors Noll Campbell, PharmD, M.S., and Malaz Boustani, M.D.,
Challenges of deprescribing and minimizing use of anticholinergic medications Read More »
Off-the-grid living Residing in an area that’s removed from the nearest town/city provides an innumerable amount of benefits, yet many of the modern necessities we have come to expect in everyday life might be sorely lacking. One of the largest is, as the name “off-the-grid” implies, reliable access to electricity, meaning that most find themselves
Controlling an Off-Grid Generator Over Wi-Fi with a Pair of Arduino Boards Read More »
Digital displays are useful for quick and accurate readout, but lots of people prefer the physical motion of a needle moving along a dial. For instance, many smartwatch users choose an analog face to show the time, and modern cars with digital dashboards often default to showing an analog speedometer. Following this trend, [Miro Pavleski]
HACKADAY PRIZE 2022: ARDUINO-POWERED WEIGHING SCALE HAS A REAL ANALOG DISPLAY Read More »
Air quality can have a big impact on your health, but it isn’t always something you can see. [Ahmed Oyenuga] wanted to make air quality something more tangible and developed an Interactive Air Quality Map. Using addressable LEDs and acrylic panels, [Oyenuga]’s map lights up different regions of his state (Lagos) with colors that correspond to
HACKADAY PRIZE 2022: THIS INTERACTIVE AIR QUALITY MAP MAKES THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE Read More »
I made a 4 joystick game controller with arduino for space games. However, there is a game category that is lacking. essentially, I need “velocidrone in space” ,, I have a pretty good grasp on the way that a space drone should race by now, I’ve played enough of the existing games that offer some
I can’t dev no skills, but need a space game that doesn’t exist (for me to play) Read More »
Designed for processors that support serial interfaces, the one-chip module offers all the functionalities of a dedicated HSM within a single compact MAX10 FPGA chip. The new release from Skudo is a professional FGPA development board built as an encryption solution to project boards like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone. It is a plug and play Hardware Security Module that provides
KRYPTOR FGPA IS A HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE THAT ADDS COMPLEX OPEN-SOURCE ENCRYPTION Read More »
Adafruit’s new MEMENTO – Bare Board Camera module is powered by the ESP32-S3 and can be programmed with CircuitPython or Arduino. The module includes a camera with an OV5640 sensor which features auto-focus capabilities and the board includes a 1.54″ 240×240 Color TFT to display the images. Previously we have covered many ESP32-based camera modules
MEMENTO is an ESP32-S3-based, CircuitPython or Arduino programmable DIY camera module Read More »
Bottom line: Repurposing obsolete hardware is a popular pastime among the tech community, and the latest project from the YouTube channel Artillect is a fine example of what’s possible when thinking outside of the box. Is it practical? No, not really. Is it neat? Absolutely. Riley took a Brother AX-25 electronic typewriter from the late 1980s that utilizes
