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  After searching everywhere for an affordable ride-on fire truck toy for his daughter this past Christmas season YouTuber Jason Altice (AKA CodeMakesItGo) had nearly given up, but luckily enough was able to locate a free Grave Digger Power Wheels that he could modify into one. In its current condition, the vehicle was in bad shape so it had to first be almost completely disassembled, which led to the discovery of a bad switch that was causing the troubles.  Read This dad converted a Power Wheels into a DIY fire truck toy, complete with a siren and lights via Blogdot.tv An interesting link found among my daily reading

  After 50 years of false starts, incremental progress, ethical quandaries, and endless hype cycles, artificial intelligence may finally be ready for prime time. The biggest breakthroughs in recent years have been around machine learning, a specific type of artificial intelligence that uses neural networks—inspired by the human brain—that can analyze massive data sets, find patterns, and get "smarter" in the process. But are these algorithms really learning, in the human sense of the word? In three-and-a-half minutes, this Scientific American animation takes us from early efforts to make computers imitate people through the emergence of machine learning all the way to today's dangers of algorithmic bias—code that embodies and amplifies its creators' prejudices. Read What is machine learning anyway? This three minute animation delivers an excellent simple explanation via Boing Boing An interesting link found among my daily reading

Read Make a Super 8 Digital Cartridge with #RaspberryPi #celebratephotography via Raspberry Pi – Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! An interesting link found among my daily reading

Ever needed to quickly edit something or someone out of an image? Maybe it’s the stranger who wandered into your family photo, or the stand holding up your final artwork for school? Whatever the job, if you don’t have the time or Photoshop skills needed to edit the thing yourself, why not try Cleanup.pictures — a handy web tool that does exactly what it promises in the URL. Read This free web tool is a fast and easy way to remove objects from images via The Verge An interesting link found among my daily reading

  RFID (radio-frequency identification) is a technology where wireless non-contact use of radio frequency waves is used to transfer data. This usually involves a reader that collects data from an RFID tag, and it has a wide variety of applications. In this article, we'll take a look at some ESP32-based RFID projects! Read The 10 Best ESP32 RFID Projects via MUO An interesting link found among my daily reading

  Voice assistants are now available from a wide variety of companies, however, [7402] didn’t like the idea of these devices sending data off to the cloud for potentially-nefarious purposes. Thus, the goal became to build a home voice assistant that worked entirely offline, and that’s precisely what [7402] achieved. The system had limited goals compared to commercial competitors. [7402] was more than happy to deal with a limited vocabulary of understanding as a trade off for privacy. It’s all built around a Raspberry Pi Zero, which runs the Julius speech recognition library. Ultrasonic sensors are used to only activate the device when a person leans in and directly addresses the system. Read Homebrewed Voice Assistant Keeps An Eye On Air Quality via hack a day An interesting link found among my daily reading

The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises the billions of physical devices around the world that are connected to the internet, uploading their data and communicating with each other independently of human input. Arduino produces a range of development boards, from 8-bit microcontrollers to 32-bit microcontrollers, some even with WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities. This coupled with its beginner-friendly projects available on the web makes Arduino ideal for diving into your first IoT project! In this article, we’ll take a look at ten impressive IoT projects made by makers in the community. Read The 10 Best Arduino IoT Projects via MUO An interesting link found among my daily reading

A wildlife camera is a great first project for a raspberry pi. Check out this simple set up from Maddie Moate on YouTube: For a long time I’ve really wanted to get stuck in with a Raspberry Pi project and the My Naturewatch Camera has been something I’ve been meaning to make for AGES. This video is a detailed step by step instructional video, something that I couldn’t find online. So I hope that this, alongside the amazing mynaturewatch.net website, will encourage you to build your own and get spying on your local wildlife! Read How to make a Wildlife Camera (using a Raspberry Pi!) #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi via Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! An interesting link found among my daily reading