While things like the Arduino platform certainly opened up the gates of microcontroller programming to a much wider audience, it can also be limiting in some ways. The Arduino IDE, for example, abstracts away plenty of the underlying machinations of the hardware, and the vast amount of libraries can contribute to this effect as well. […]
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Arduino, the renowned provider of hardware, software, and digital services, has announced that its Arduino Cloud services have now achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (ISO 27001) certification. This significant milestone underscores Arduino’s commitment to integrating security as a fundamental part of its development lifecycle. ISO 27001 is a globally recognized standard that outlines a framework for establishing, implementing,
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Every finished product stands at the end of a long line of prototypes, and Sony have recently shared an interview and images of their PlayStation VR2 prototypes. Many of the prototypes focus on a specific functionality, and readers who are not familiar with building things might find it a bit wild to see just how big
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Last week-end we just had a good time at the Maker Faire of Shenzhen, hosted in the wonderful OCT District. We were invited by Eric Pan from Seeedstudio (thanks Eric for the good time!). The Maker Faire has been a priceless experience to get in touch with the chinese maker community, as well as networking
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As much as some people on the Internet might like to think — no, Apple did not come up with the idea of the smart watch. Even if you ignore the calculator watches that we imagine a full 60% of Hackaday readers wore at one time or another in their lives, the Timex Datalink was
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Everyone wants a wider field of view in their VR headsets, but that’s not an easy nut to crack. [Statonwest] shows there’s a way to get at least some of the immersion benefits with a bit of simple hardware thanks to the VR Ambilight. A few years ago the Ambilight showed up as a way to spice up TV
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In the real world, missile systems use advanced radars, infrared sensors, and other hardware to track and prosecute their targets. [Raspduino Uno] on YouTube has instead used ultrasound for targeting for an altogether simpler desktop fire control solution. This fun build uses a common off-the-shelf USB “missile launcher” that fires foam darts. To supply targeting data
ARDUINO-POWERED MISSILE SYSTEM USES ULTRASOUND TO AIM Continue Reading
We all might dream of having an industrial robot arm at our disposal, complete with working controller that doesn’t need constant maintenance and replacement parts, and which is able to help us with other projects with only a minimum of coding or instruction. That’s a pipe dream for most of us, as without a large
If there’s one area of the human anatomy we rarely try to draw the eye, it’s the ears. Nonetheless, [DIY GUY Chris] has developed some LED earrings that should do exactly that. The earrings are made using PCBs as the very body of the jewelry itself. The PCBs for each ear play host to eight WS2812
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CircuitPython is a branch of MicroPhython designed to simplify education and experimentation on low-cost microcontrollers to make it easy to prototype without any upfront desktop software downloads. With CircuitPython, you can write clean and simple Python code to control your hardware instead of using complex low-level languages like C or C ++. While we have seen several boards
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