It’s no surprise that many hardware hackers avoid working with AC, and frankly, we can’t blame them. The potential consequences of making a mistake when working with mains voltages are far greater than anything that can happen when you’re fiddling with a 3.3 V circuit. But if you do ever find yourself leaning towards the […]
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For many years, cloud computing and cloud-based services have been one of the fastest-growing sectors of the IT and tech industry – but just what is the ‘cloud’ and how could it be used to transform your company’s processes? Cloud computing explained In essence, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services (storage, processing, apps)
How moving to the cloud could transform your business – and save money Continue Reading
What’s round, has what looks like a vacuum tube in the center, and was made in the 1950s by HP? We don’t know either, but [The Signal Path] restored one and shows us this mystery instrument in a recent video that you can see below. We aren’t going to spoil the surprise over what the device is,
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Many infamous Kickstarter projects have ultimately flopped or failed, leaving backers frustrated and angry. Often pitched with a splashy convincing video that happens to have critical components conveniently offscreen. [Allen Pan] was reminiscing about one such project, the air umbrella, and decide to redeem the project by making his own. The basic idea of the air
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Multiplexing is a very old technology in which control signals are intermixed for the sake of being able to control more devices than there are control signals. For [mihai.cuciuc], the problems started when he multiplexed some very efficient LEDs. The problem? In two banks of six LEDs each, both LEDs connected to a single Arduino pin would light,
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Developers, hobbyists and Internet of Things enthusiasts may be interested in a new IoT Cloud Scheduler that has been added to the Arduino Cloud platform, offering an easy way to add new automation controls to your projects. The Cloud Scheduler takes the form of a new type of variable that consists of a couple of
Internet of Things Cloud Scheduler introduced for Arduino Continue Reading
Underscoring how far semiconductor makers have come during the pandemic, Xilinx, Intel and Lattice all announced releases of their largest field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platforms to date, and newer platforms with higher I/O count, memory bandwidth and transceiver bandwidth are sure to follow. Terabit bandwidths used to be unheard of, but today’s data center grade
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This command-line Python script transmits MQTT messages based on events from a MIDI input device such as the Akai MPD218 Drum Pad Controller. This can be used as a platform for remote control of one or multiple embedded devices. The MQTT and MIDI configuration must be customized by editing variables with the script before this can
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Samsung ISOCELL Slim GH1 Offers 43.7 Megapixels In An Extremely Compact Package, Ideal For Slim Full-Display Smartphones Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced the industry’s first 0.7-micrometer (μm)-pixel image sensor, the 43.7-megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Slim GH1. Thanks to advanced ISOELL Plus technology, the new ultra-high-resolution GH1 image sensor embraces 43.7-million
SAMSUNG INTRODUCES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 0.7ΜM-PIXEL MOBILE IMAGE SENSOR Continue Reading
The internet as we knew it, a few years back, was being run by humans; the majority of everything that happens over the internet – the messages, the data, the communication was between people. But this is changing gradually; a new category of devices that do not have any communication between humans is beginning to
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