There's been some questions on controlling servomotors and robotics and such. IIRC, the questions were...

There's been some questions on controlling servomotors and robotics and such. IIRC, the questions were based on Arduino, but this might get your curiosity going.

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It seems like a day doesn’t go by without an ESP8266 project here on Hackaday. There’s a good reason...

It seems like a day doesn’t go by without an ESP8266 project here on Hackaday. There’s a good reason for that, the chip and associated modules have brought low-cost WiFi connectivity to the masses. Today we have [Stevica Kuharski], who has built an open…

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It’s hard for Hinton, 67, not to feel a bit pleased with himself. After a lifetime on the periphery,...

It’s hard for Hinton, 67, not to feel a bit pleased with himself. After a lifetime on the periphery, he now has a way of connecting with nearly anyone he meets. For example, when in Toronto, he works out of Google’s office downtown, which is filled with advertising employees. He’s the only researcher. Occasionally, a curious employee sidles up and asks, "What do you do?"



"Do you have an Android phone?" Hinton replies.



"Yes."



"The speech recognition is pretty good, isn’t it?"



"Yes."



"Well, I design the neural networks that recognize what you say."



The questioner nearly always pauses in thought.



"Wait, what do you mean?"

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I have switched out the breakout board, and the second one works but the first gives no love. This means...

I have switched out the breakout board, and the second one works but the first gives no love. This means my second breakout board is faulty and I will have to contact +Adafruit Industries .

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Bug Report? Rant? Request for help? Running Bluetooth Low Energy from Arduino I'm with a group working...

Bug Report? Rant? Request for help? Running Bluetooth Low Energy from Arduino

I'm with a group working on a thing. What that thing will do is not important to this discussion at the moment. What is important is that I'm expecting a flood of data from the thing (think QS / IoT ) to a phone. Plus, I'll have a second thing, doing the sa...

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I am of course for celebrating Arduino. I like the platform (mostly). But is this something we should...

I am of course for celebrating Arduino. I like the platform (mostly). But is this something we should engage?

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I'm envisioning an electronics thing -- watch battery, minimal microcontroller, on-off switch, Bluetooth...

I'm envisioning an electronics thing -- watch battery, minimal microcontroller, on-off switch, Bluetooth Low Energy chip -- which I can hang off my water bottle at the gym. When I run laps, my phone connects with the dingus, which raises a counter, then when I run past, it loses connection again.



I'm even beginning to imagine the case I can 3D-print for it.

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Lamp had a three-way switch, but bulb wasn't three-way and the screw-on handle broke. Found that the...

Lamp had a three-way switch, but bulb wasn't three-way and the screw-on handle broke. Found that the handles are 2 for $5 (no need for second) and replacement fixtures are $6. Took it apart, cut and stripped two wires, tightened two screws and out our back together and now it only works off the wall switch.



I've earned a cookie.

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If the point is to write your hardware project's logic in Python, I get it. If the point is to install...

If the point is to write your hardware project's logic in Python, I get it.



If the point is to install Python via USB instead of pulling what? An Iron Python MSI or something? That I don't quite get, but from the Adafruit video, I'm not sure.

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JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde Well this...

JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde



Well this is some amazing news that has been a long time coming. You can take your Flash apps and run them without Flash, and take your Silverlight apps and (almost) run them without Silverlight.



If you still don't think JavaScript has won the web, please read on.



SHUMWAY - FLASH IN JAVASCRIPT AND HTML 5



The Mozilla Project "Shumway" has been a long time coming (as long ago as 2012, but it's now ready to be looked at more deeply).



Chris Peterson, a Program Manager on the Mozilla Shumway says:



"Shumway is in a race to stay relevant as Flash fades from the web, but there will always be a long-tail of Flash content that would/will be lost when Adobe or browsers stop supporting the Flash plugin."

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Two projects, one involving learning about Bluetooth Low Energy and one involving creating another "...

Two projects, one involving learning about Bluetooth Low Energy and one involving creating another "Easy" simplified keyboard. Some solder, some wire, an enclosure, three switches and one's mostly done.



Thanks, +Adafruit Industries ​!

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Stop to make QR Codes happen. They aren't going to happen.

Stop to make QR Codes happen. They aren't going to happen.

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#BLE #LazyWeb This is more a Stack Exchange question, but no idea which group. This article makes it...

#BLE #LazyWeb This is more a Stack Exchange question, but no idea which group.



This article makes it sound like, if you had two Bluetooth Low Energy devices and one BLE-capable phone, you could only connect one thing at a time to it.



(It also says you can only connect your two device to one phone, so if you wanted to have it talk to your phone and your laptop, you're SOL, but that's OK for my use case.)



Is that (still) a true statement?



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I like this one better than the first. Great work.

I like this one better than the first. Great work.

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Thinking I'll want to learn a lot from this over the next few months

Thinking I'll want to learn a lot from this over the next few months

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So, don't buy Bluetooth LE door locks

So, don't buy Bluetooth LE door locks

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Deep Syntax in DBI Let's look at some code. This uses DBI to talk to MySQL. my $out ; # This query ...

Deep Syntax in DBI

Let's look at some code. This uses DBI to talk to MySQL. my $out ;



# This query gets everything out of the database

my $query_all = '

SELECT steps

, miles

, datestamp

, DAYNAME(datestamp) day

...

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"He's human, just like me. He has a family that loves him, and that's an exploitable weakness."

"He's human, just like me. He has a family that loves him, and that's an exploitable weakness."

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Finally, you can hear me play, rather than just read me talking about playing. Please be gentle.

Finally, you can hear me play, rather than just read me talking about playing. Please be gentle.

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This is brilliant even before the jazz guitar is added to it.

This is brilliant even before the jazz guitar is added to it.

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Jimmy Talks. And tells us shop hacks with hot glue.

Jimmy Talks. And tells us shop hacks with hot glue.

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"Horrifying Dashcam Footage" is right.

"Horrifying Dashcam Footage" is right.

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Anyone ever get to work, open up an editor and say "Good God, anything but this today"?

Anyone ever get to work, open up an editor and say "Good God, anything but this today"?

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What's On My Mind? Thinking through the Thing : I had said that I thought this was wasteful of battery...

What's On My Mind?

Thinking through the Thing : I had said that I thought this was wasteful of battery life. Now, I'm thinking that many many things are wasteful of battery life, and that's the user's decision, not mine. I mean, for myself, I'd rather run it as a crontab-base...

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+Scott Hanselman​, listening to your Internet of Things podcast. I'm using X10 kit, waiting until I ...

+Scott Hanselman ​, listening to your Internet of Things podcast. I'm using X10 kit, waiting until I can really jump into decent fixtures. Yes, it's called X10 and there's a company that sells it called Smarthome.com. I have a serial port dongle that connects to a wireless controller. Otherwise it only works on one circuit. Not the way to go.



My other light switch is a standard vacation timer. Not good for dynamic switching.





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