About Peak co-founders Dan Makoski and David Khavari stumbled upon a surprisingly powerful idea: a smart lamp that helps people form better habits in small, progressive steps. How People Use Peak In addition to being a beautiful lamp, Peak can be used for forming many positive habits, such as: Working out, running, and other fitness goals […]
The tank that will follow you and serve you beer. Coolness is over 9000! Story Abstract There are things that deep inside every man wants to have. Combining beer and tanks is one of these things! This project will be about this thing, a voice controlled tank that delivers beer to you with an autonomous
This instructable shows how to control some servomotors remotely in a wi-fi network, using an ordinary internet browser (Firefox, for instance). This might be used in several applications: toys, robots, drones, camera pan/tilt, etc. The motors were attached to an Arduino Uno, which connects the wi-fi network through a ESP-8266 module. The control interface was
Reinventing the home security system with the IoT method using sensors connected to a Node.JS server. Story The Idea Modern security systems have several disadvantages, some of which are: As a user to you can’t customize the system the way you want The panel is in a centralized location, if you can’t get to it
I’ve had a Siglent SDS1102CML two channel 100 MHz bench scope here for the last two years. I demand a lot from my test equipment so had low expectations when it arrived. After all, how good can a $359 unit be? Turns out, quite a good for the price. I reviewed it here. But the
Cost and availability of retirement villages cause aging people to stay in their own homes. This system monitors their daily events. Story About this project The aging population of the world presents enormous financial challenges. There are not enough retirement facilities to cater the needs of the elderly and costs are high. The tendency is
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The June 23, 1988 issue of EDN included a Maxim Design News insert where we asked “Who in their right mind would choose a computer interface standard that uses ±12V supplies, requires expensive connectors, works over a limited distance, is error prone, difficult to network, and has no current loop isolation?” Yet, here we are
A new way to save lives by neutralizing the attacker before he can act. Story Our Vision of the Product Our vision for WISdome is a network of weapon owners, providing extended functionality for weapon maintenance and security through IoT. The product will mount weapons and connect to nearby Wi-Fi hotspots, sending information to our cloud. We
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Opening 26 pieces of windows at the same time in a 2,000-square-meter greenhouse under just 20 seconds? Yes! Story 2 years ago I decided to step to a new level in controlling micro-climate in our thermal water heated greenhouses. Before that time for example we did all airing by opening-closing windows manually. It was a
An internet-connected, easy to use PCR Thermocycler designed by high schoolers, for high schoolers. Story What is a PCR thermocycler? A PCR Thermocycler is a device that can change between desired temperatures in a controllable manner in order to properly carry out a Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR). What is a PCR? A polymerase chain reaction is
IoT PCR: Low Cost DNA Replication Connected to the Internet. Continue Reading
