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The South Florida Science Center recently added a new ten-inch telescope and turned to [Andres Paris] and his brother to replace the hand-cranked dome door system. They turned to an Arduino along with some beefy motor drivers. You can see some videos of the beast in operation, below. According to a Reddit post, the brothers picked up a 5A 12V motor but decided to overdesign and selected an H-bridge that would handle 20A peak current. An IR remote allows the operator to open and shut the door and reed switches sense the extremes of the door’s motion. Read Arduino Drives Astronomy Dome | Hackaday via Hackaday An interesting link found among my daily reading

Historical Technology Books - 57 in a series - MicroTimes Volume 1 Number 1 (1984)     Download this entire publication from Archive.org in a variety of formats   Find similar books and magazines: Publication date  1984-05 Topics  Computers Publisher BAM Publications Collection  microtimes ; computermagazines ; magazine_rack ; additional_collections Digitizing sponsor  Internet Archive Contributor  Internet Archive Language  English Find more books on Bookshop and Help Indie Book Stores!

When was the last time you looked forward to looking at a clock? Not to find out the time per se — like gee, maybe it’s beer o’ clock already — but waited with bated breath to gaze upon a particular clock? Never? We don’t blame you, but only because you haven’t seen this fruit machine clock in action yet. Every 60 seconds, the reels start spinning like some little man inside pulled the lever on a slot machine (or fruit machine, as they’re called across the pond). The reels slow down and stop one by one, left to right, settling on the four digits of time in 24-hour mode. Imagine the suspense of coming to see what time it is just as the reels start spinning! Read Time Bandit Clock Hits the Aesthetic Jackpot via hack a day An interesting link found among my daily reading

This summer has been huge for the Raspberry Pi community. With many people working from home, makers are turning to the Raspberry Pi for fun and helpful projects to improve life around the house. This month, creators brought out some of their best ideas yet to make life cleaner, safer and a lot more entertaining. Will these innovations be in your house any time soon? If you have a spare Pi lying around and need something to do with it, these should inspire you. Read Best Raspberry Pi Projects: August 2020 via Tom's Hardware An interesting link found among my daily reading

Historical Technology Books - 56 in a series - PC Mag 1982-02       Download this entire publication from Archive.org in a variety of formats   Find similar books and magazines: Publication date  1982-02 Topics  PC Mag , PC Magazine , Collection  pc_magazine Language  English Addeddate 2016-08-12 19:29:56 Identifier PC-Mag-1982-02 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t82k1855t Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Pages n101 Year  1982 Find more books on Bookshop and Help Indie Book Stores!

Teachable Machine is a web-based tool that makes creating machine learning models fast, easy, and accessible for everyone.  Now on GitHub: Want to bring Teachable Machine into your own web creations? We’re working on a library called teachablemachine.js which will let you do just that. Here’s the first remixable demo you can play with to get a sneak peek at what’s possible: Hello Wizard – This demo shows how you can drop a machine learning “training wizard” on top of your website with just a few lines of code. Read Bringing Teachable Machine into your own web creations via Adafruit Industries An interesting link found among my daily reading

With little more than an Arduino, an OLED display, and some buttons, it’s easy to build your own faux-retro game system. There’s even a growing library of titles out there that target this specific combination of hardware, thanks in no small part to the Arduboy project. But unless you’re content to play Circuit Dude on a breadboard, at some point you’ll probably want to wrap the build up in a more convenient form. Like many that came before it, the OLED handheld created by [Alex Zidros] takes inspiration from a Nintendo product; but it’s not the Game Boy. Instead, his design is based on a 3D printed grip for the Switch Joy-Cons that he found on Thingiverse. After tacking on a holder for the PCB, he had the makings of a rather unique system. Read Arduino Handheld Game System Gets a Grip via hack a day An interesting link found among my daily reading

The great thing about word clocks is that while they all follow the same principle of spelling out the time for you, they come in so many shapes, sizes, and other variations, you have plenty of options to build one yourself. No matter if your craft of choice involves woodworking, laser cutting, PCB design, or nothing physical at all. For [Yasa], it was learning 3D modeling combined with a little trip down memory lane that led him to create a fully functional word clock as a rendered animation in Blender. Inspired by the picture of a commercially available word clock, [Yasa] remembered the fun he had back in 2012 when he made a Turkish version for the Pebble watch, and decided to recreate that picture in Blender. But simply copying an image is of course a bit boring, so he turned it into an actual, functioning clock by essentially emulating a matrix of individually addressable LEDs using a custom texture he maps the current time to it. And since the original image had the clock posi

Historical Technology Books - 55 in a series - Amiga Computing Magazine Issue 001     Download this entire publication from Archive.org in a variety of formats   Find similar books and magazines: Publication date  1988-06 Topics  amiga , software , commodore , graphics , thai , computing , program , disc , amiga computing , repeat , company price , amiga centre , repeat repeat , centre scotland , hard disc , electronic arts , disc drive , price description , word processor Collection  amiga-computing-magazine ; computermagazines ; magazine_rack ; additional_collections Language  English Find more books on Bookshop and Help Indie Book Stores!

Getting to design and build things for a living sounds like a dream job, especially if it also involves Raspberry Pi and wildlife. Glyn Hudson has always enjoyed making things and set up a company manufacturing open-source energy monitoring tools shortly after graduating from university. With access to several hives at his keen apiarist parents’ garden in Snowdonia, Glyn set up BeeMonitor using some of the tools he used at work to track the beehives’ inhabitants. Read BeeMonitor — The MagPi magazine via The MagPi magazine An interesting link found among my daily reading

A hand-sized robot sits on the head of a drum and taps along with a human player. It is mobile, moving around the drum, the sound of its motion contributing to the music. It can improvise, helping the musician explore new directions. It can also work in co-ordination with multiple robot drummers, each responsible for a certain instrument or part of a composition. It even has applications in music therapy. Read Tiny drummer via Gazette - Memorial University of Newfoundland An interesting link found among my daily reading

Level Design Workshop: The Illusion of Choice via GDC on YouTube [Video] In this 2016 GDC talk, Epic Games' Jim Brown examines the psychological and biological underpinnings of how people make choices, and pulls examples from shipped games to show how and when developers use these "rules" to impact players, Watch Level Design Workshop: The Illusion of Choice via GDC on YouTube An interesting link found among my daily reading

Historical Technology Books - 54 in a series - MacAddict 001 (1996)       Download this entire publication from Archive.org in a variety of formats   Find similar books and magazines: Publication date 1996-09 Topics mac , internet , opendoc , web , apple , software , macaddict , color , amelio , ram , web site , hard drive , power mac , internet explorer , color quickcam , reviews reviews , north hill , system software , power computing , opendoc parts Collection macaddict ; computermagazines ; magazine_rack ; additional_collections Language English Find more books on Bookshop and Help Indie Book Stores!

Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash The worst thing about the imposter syndrome is that it manages to convince you it's real even when you know it's not. Here's how the imposter syndrome affected me in my first month as a developer. I want to share this with juniors in the same situation, as well as seniors who have to work with them.  But it's also for people of every level because the imposter syndrome affects everyone. Bringing this to light allows all of us to deal better with this ugly imposter monster. Read Imposter Monster | .cult by Honeypot via cult.honeypot.io An interesting link found among my daily reading

No really, this thing is tiny. We took a crack at putting together some of the best mini gaming PCs, but frankly, they all pale in comparison to the sheer tininess of this PC. However, to get something this small and authentically gaming PC-looking, you need a lot of patience and a lot of craftsmanship. Read This is the smallest gaming PC we’ve ever seen via PCGamesN An interesting link found among my daily reading

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