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The short answer is: "because it'll make things more secure". The long answer involves Ronald Reagan Watch Why You Should Turn On Two Factor Authentication via Tom Scott on YouTube [Video]

PeterQuinn925 swims for exercise, and to train for the occasional triathlon, but when doing so he often zones out and forgets how many laps he has swam. To solve this problem without spending a lot of money on a commercial solution, he created his own counter using an Arduino Nano and an ultrasonic sensor. The sensor detects when a swimmer approaches, and the system calculates distance based on this, assuming that a lap is roughly 50 yards or meters. This info is announced audibly via a speaker/amplifier using an Arduino speech library and is shown on a 7-segment display. Read Keep track of your laps in the pool with this Arduino counter via ブログドットテレビ An interesting link found among my daily reading

  Read Slack Status Updater with ESP8266 // Becky Stern via YouTube An interesting link found among my daily reading

Read Official Arduino Day live stream March 27th at 4pm CET via Geeky Gadgets An interesting link found among my daily reading

You're probably used to hearing about Raspberry Pi in regards to their lineup of small, credit card-sized computers that are able to run Linux operating systems. They're great for situations when low power, great connectivity, and plenty of compute capability is needed, but it falls flat in situations requiring real-time performance and precise timings. This is where the Raspberry Pi Pico excels. It has plenty of great peripherals, including I2C, SPI, USB, and more. The Pico contains two fast Arm Cortex-M0+ cores on a custom chip, along with a special subsystem called Programmable I/O, or PIO for short. It lets programmers create specialized state machines (up to 8) that can handle IO tasks with pins without the need for tons of CPU interaction, thus freeing up the two cores for other tasks. Read Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico via Explore all projects An interesting link found among my daily reading

  It's finally time to write some code! In this video, I demonstrate the very basics of coding a "hello world"-style bot with discord.js.   Read Discord Bots 3: Coding a Bot with discord.js via Coding Train on YouTube An interesting link found among my daily reading

Barometer is an instrument for determining the pressure of the atmosphere and hence for assisting in forecasting weather. Pressure tendency can forecast short term changes in the weather. A device that shows a tendency change in atmospheric pressure in a unit of time is called Tendencymeter. The video describes how to make such a device with the help of Arduino microcontroller and 9g servo motor, which serves as a pointer. Read DIY Simple Weather Forecast Device via Hackster An interesting link found among my daily reading

The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s tiny computers can be used for anything from homemade cameras to cucumber sorters, and now, the group is branching out into microcontrollers and custom silicon. The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first step. It’s a new $4 microcontroller that’s smaller than the average Pi, features a custom chip powerful enough to be used in machine learning projects (according to The Raspberry Pi Foundation), and is on sale now. In its introductory blog post, the company explains that today’s Raspberry Pis are already often used alongside a smaller microcontroller: Read The Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny $4 microcontroller running off the company’s very own chip via The Verge The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s tiny computers can be used for anything from homemade cameras to cucumber sorters, and now, the group is branching out into microcontrollers and custom silicon. The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first step. It’s a new $4 microcontroller that’s smaller than the average Pi, featu

The feature automatically transcribes any audio in real-time so that users can, for example, follow along with a video even if they're deaf or hard of hearing — or are simply in a loud environment where it's tough to hear. HOW TO TURN IT ON — According to Android Police, the feature was added in the latest version of Chrome but it's still an experimental feature. To enable it, you'll need to paste the following into your browser: chrome://flags/#enable-accessibility-live-caption Read Google Chrome's new transcription feature creates closed captions in real-time via Input An interesting link found among my daily reading

  We have a tradition of inventing microscopes at IBM in Zurich. In 1981, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer created the scanning tunneling microscope here. As a DIY enthusiast, I quickly found myself in my own quest to build a better setup. The result was a US $300 modular and motorized microscope that combines my three favorite adulthood hobbies: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Lego. Read Build A Sophisticated Microscope Using Lego, 3D Printing, Arduinos, and a Raspberry Pi via IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News An interesting link found among my daily reading

  Zoom is bringing its Live Transcription feature to free users. Paid users have had access to the service for a while, but free users will soon also have the option to add automated, AI-powered closed-captioning to their meetings.  Live transcription rolls out to all accounts this Fall, but you can apply for early access through this request form. Multi-lingual Zoom hosts, take note: At launch, the feature only recognizes English. Read How to Enable Zoom's New Live Transcriptions via Lifehacker An interesting link found among my daily reading