December 8, 2022 AT 2:34 pm grack.com goes on an odyssey of getting a new coffeemaker, learning BTLE and how it works, reverse-engineering the Bluetooth interface and Android applications for a coffeemaker, writing a Rust-based CLI interface, and finally, hooking it all up to a GitHub actions bot…
December 8, 2022 AT 2:15 pm Brandon Satrom posts on hackster.io on using the Blues Wireless Notecard and Notehub.io to keep a fleet of e-Ink displays synchronized across a facility.In this article, I’ll walk through a simple, low-cost and low-power solution for connected digital signage using the Notecard, Notehub.io…
December 8, 2022 AT 1:32 pm The Lisp Star is a star-shaped pendant that you can program in Lisp to make its six colored LEDs twinkle in different patterns:The pendant is based on the ATtiny3227, a microcontroller with 32Kbytes of flash memory and 3Kbytes of RAM, enough memory…
December 8, 2022 AT 1:00 pm Abandon Miniatures wanted to try having an AI art program design a scene that could be turned into a diorama. They used the Midjourney AI to create the image and then translated that into a moody miniature scene.To film the miniature, they…
December 7, 2022 AT 9:23 am The topic is vertical retrace interrupts, specifically on the early PC platform. The first few display standards on PC did not have any kind of display interrupt. For MDA, CGA and clones based on these standards, such as Hercules and Plantronics ColorPlus,…
December 7, 2022 AT 8:30 am Attention international customers – please place all DHL Express orders by 11am ET Monday December 12.Attention domestic customers – please place all USPS First Class and Priority orders by 11am ET Thursday, December 8And UPS Ground orders by 11am ET Monday December…
December 7, 2022 AT 8:30 am Google has their own easy to learn coding blocks aptly named Blockly. Checkout the post they put up on Computer Science Education Week to learn all about it and more!No one organization can single-handedly give every student the opportunity to explore computer…
December 7, 2022 AT 8:00 am Informative video from Half as Interesting on YouTube. The short answer to the question posed by the video title is…there are A LOT of pixels to manage. Watch the video in full to learn more about the technical details involved (of which…
December 6, 2022 AT 6:00 pm Every holiday season, A Charlie Brown Christmas airs. No matter how many times you’ve watched it, it is still a joy. The music featured throughout sets a calming holiday tone, no matter how stressed out Charlie gets. NPR shares the details of…
December 6, 2022 AT 3:50 pm Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY!Check out the livestream right here inside this product page — you won’t want to miss…
December 6, 2022 AT 2:35 pm Sergey Lyubka provides a guide written for developers who wish to start programming microcontrollers using the GCC compiler and a bare metal approach. It uses a Nucleo-F429ZI development board with STM32F429 microcontroller. But basic principles are applicable to any other microcontroller. In…
December 6, 2022 AT 10:35 am Estudio Roble posts on hackaday.io a backpack project with electronic signaling. An accelerometer autodetects braking. The turn signals are commanded by a 315MHz radio module. 78 NeoPixels are used for lighting the indicators with an Adafruit Circuit Playground Express (CPX) controlling the…
December 6, 2022 AT 10:00 am Get ready to see shades of magenta in 2023, thanks to Pantone’s Viva Magenta pick for the year. We certainly won’t be mad to have some more of this red tone in our day to day lives. Pantone states the color is…
December 5, 2022 AT 10:30 pm OK, so they’re really more like poles for stringing lights on that look like Christmas trees, but they still look quick and simple to make and the results are lovely. It only takes about 15 minutes for each tree. Stop breadboarding and…
