[Federico Musto], one of the Arduinos in the Arduino vs. Arduino saga (which lastly concerned an end last September) may have fabricated his academic record. This news comes from Wired, offering files from the registrars at MIT as well as NYU specifying [Musto] never went to these institutions. because this story came out, [Musto] has edited …

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[Reinis] has a Volvo S80. one of the dashboard features it includes is a 6.5″ LCD screen which periscopes as much as utilize as a navigation system. The issue is that Volvo stopped making maps for it around five years back as well as there are no maps whatsoever for Latvia where he lives. So …

RASPBERRY PI REPLACES A VOLVO NAV SYSTEMRead More

For a final design project, [Frank] and his group took on an augmented reality project. The goal was to make objects interactively controllable by pointing a smartphone at them. Their solution was Augmented reality universal Controller and Identifier (ARUCI). The system locates controllable objects by sensing IR beacons that contain identifiers for each object. The IR is received …

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how many 555 timers does it take to add up two 10 digit numbers? [Alan’s] 555 adding machine does it with 102 of them, he designed the machine as an extreme entry to the 555 contest and the original plan was to make it even more complicated. This machine uses the 555’s to implement a …

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This robot can be managed from the terminal window of your computer. You can see a manilla-colored board mounted between the wheels. This is the RF receiver which has rather a long antenna that we’ve cropped out to get a much better look at the bot itself. [Ashish] chosen up an RF transmitter/receiver pair for …

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If you want to get an old Apple, Commodore 64, Amiga, or any type of other retrocomputer up on the Internet, this is for you. [Stian] had an Amiga 500 lying around as well as wished to put it on a network. The A500 isn’t expandable, so he needed to look at some kind of …

AN OVERKILL NETWORK ADAPTER FOR RETROCOMPUTERSRead More

[Hans Peter] wanted to relocation away from using full Arduino boards in his projects. one of the components he rarely used after the development stage is the USB hardware. once the firmware is flashed to the chip he didn’t need it any longer. So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by …

ROLLING YOUR own minimal USB TO SERIAL ARDUINO PROGRAMMERRead More

It’s not his first Internet radio, but [Matthias]’ modernization of a classic Bakelite radio is a real, functional piece of art. Not only does it retain the look of an old radio, it also has the capability to listen to streams and his entire MP3 collection through the Internet. For the software, [Matthias] used jquery …

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[Will] likes Reddit so much he built this dedicated controller that lets him play the social web site like a video game. He calls it he Karma Controller. In this case, ‘Karma’ refers to ability to accumulate a large number of net up-votes on a Reddit post. The device features seven buttons which are all …

KARMA CONTROLLER MAKES REDDIT A gameRead More

nothing makes us feel a lot more like we’re on star trip then stating “Computer, turn on desk light,” as well as enjoying the light turn on. Of course, typical people would have left the get up word as “Alexa,” however we like “Computer” even if it does make it difficult to enjoy star trip …

ALEXA, SUDO checked out MY RESISTOR! A difficulty FOR HACKERSRead More