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OPEN SOURCE OAK AI KIT FOR SPATIAL AI SYSTEM

OpenCV has announced their AI Kit called OAK on Kickstarter. It is an MIT-licensed open-source software and Myriad X-based hardware solution for computer vision at any scale. OAK incorporates the OAK API software and two different types of hardware namely OAK-1, a, and OAK-D. The hardware is tiny artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) powerhouses, with OAK-D enabling spatial AI […]

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WIRELESS SD CARD READER USING ESP8266

One of the good things about being a maker is the power it gives you to create your own stuff. Believing USB devices have not lived up to their designation of truly being universal and working irrespective of the kind of ports they are plugged into, Hackaday user, Neutrino, recently embarked on a mission to develop devices

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INTRODUCING SPARKFUN SERVICES

Electronics retailer SparkFun Electronics has announced the launch of nine new value-added services covering board development, logistics, and training to all its customers. By Rich Pell @ eenewsembedded.com Over the last decade, says the company, it has tested and refined ideas for services by partnering with companies such as Digi-Key, RedHat, Sphero and u-blox, resulting in

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HACKABLE $20 MODEM COMBINES LTE AND PI ZERO W2 POWER

[extrowerk] tells us about a new hacker-friendly device – a $20 LTE modem stick with a quadcore CPU and WiFi, capable of running fully-featured Linux distributions. This discovery hinges on a mountain of work by a Chinese hacker [HandsomeYingYan], who’s figured out this stick runs Android, hacked its bootloader, tweaked a Linux kernel for it and created a Debian distribution for the stick –

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SELF-HOSTED PI PICO DEVELOPMENT

Older readers and those with an interest in retrocomputing may remember the days when a computer might well have booted into a BASIC interpreter. It was simultaneously a general purpose device that could run any software it would load, and also a development environment. Not something that can be said for today’s development boards which

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PUSH THE EDGE WITH UP XTREME LITE

AAEON, a leading developer of edge computing solutions, introduces the latest from UP Board, the UP Xtreme Lite. UP Xtreme Lite brings the powerful 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors on a platform that’s even easier for developers on a budget. The UP Xtreme Lite is designed to provide developers with a platform that’s flexible, powerful, and a

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Raspberry Pi 4B Used to Restore Broken Vending Machine

If you’ve ever dreamt of making money with a Raspberry Pi, now is your chance! Maker and developer OfficialFlance, as they’re known as over at Reddit, has created a project that both restores old hardware and provides an opportunity to earn a little money on the side. The project relies on a Raspberry Pi 4 to

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FLASH AN LED FROM AC-MAINS POWER

LED technology is opening the door to a variety of high-power-illumination applications. The circuit in Figure 1 can let you know when ac power is available. To drive a power LED from the ac line requires a converter or a similar arrangement. In this circuit, a passive dropper greatly simplifies the total design. You can

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LARGER COMFILEPI INDUSTRIAL RASPBERRY PI CONTROLLER

Versatile Raspberry Pi-based ComfilePi models 7” CPi-A070WR and 10” CPi-A102WR are joined by a 15” version Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the ComfilePi CPi-A150WR – a Raspberry Pi-based industrial PC with a 15” touch-panel display. Leveraging the compact, ubiquitous Raspberry Pi 3 board, the ComfilePi CPi-A150WR inherits the Raspberry Pi 3’s 1.2GHz 64 bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor, a

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2:3 SCALE VT100 TERMINAL GETS CLOSER TO ITS ROOTS

When [Michael Gardi] finished his scaled down DEC VT100 replica a few months ago, he made it very clear that the project was only meant to look like a vintage terminal on the outside. A peek into the case revealed nothing more exotic than a Raspberry Pi running its default operating system, making the terminal just

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