Developed in the dark hours of the night, between 2 and 8 o’clock in the morning of August 19th by Marcelo Samsoniuk, the DarkRISC-V stack is an experimental open source implementation of the RISC-V standard targeting the low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 family of FPGAs. Following a week of debugging, Samsoniuk has released the implementation to GitHub […]
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Simple LED matrix Clock based on the popular ESP8266 with Real Time Clock module and time synchronization over WiFi from an NTP server. Step 1: Parts and Tools First let’s see what we need. Parts: 6 x 8×8 MAX7219 LED Matrix 1 x RTC DS3231 1 x ESP12 Board 1 x pasta jar 1 x
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FriendlyElec has launched a $35 open-spec “NanoPi K1 Plus” SBC. The new NanoPi K1 Plus is a media-rich board, that switches from the Amlogic S905 SoC (found on the Odroid-C2) to an Allwinner H5 SoC, which is used in several other NanoPi boards. Both the SoCs have 4x Cortex-A53 cores and a Mali-450 GPU, but the H5 has a
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RDA’s RDA5981 is a fully integrated low-power WiFi chip from RDA Microelectronics. RDA5981 is a fully built WiFi chip highly intended for applications in the areas of a smart home, audio applications and IoT applications. The RDA5981 is being used in devices running Baidu DuerOS, the Chinese alternative to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. During
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This project is for a building a digital clock that includes temperature display. It uses OpenWeatherMap to retrieve outside temperature information and a MCP9808 sensor for inside temperature. The assembly is fairly simple and requires the following components: Raspberry Pi Zero W Adafruit 1.2″ 4-Digit 7-Segment Display w/I2C Backpack MCP9808 Temperature Sensor Breakout Board Software
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BMP180 Windows IoT Project Lets Get Started! In this project, we will use Windows 10 IoT Core to get sensor readings from a BMP180 Digital Barometric Pressure Sensor over I2C bus. Its simple to get things running with the library provided. So lets get started! The Hardware. First of all we need to get acquainted
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Story This project is part of Microsoft’s Hack the Home initiative, which provides makers with free, open-source components for effortless interfacing with the devices and services that makers use most to hack their homes. This project shows how you can use the power and flexibility of the Raspberry Pi and Windows IoT core to recycle
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The Raspberry Pi doesn’t have a little coin-battery-powered ‘Real Time Clock’ (RTC) module, which keeps time even when the power is off, or the battery removed. To keep costs low and the size small, an RTC is not included with the Raspberry Pi. If your Raspberry Pi is connected to the Internet via Ethernet or
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Breadboard If you’re new to electronics and the Raspberry Pi (RPi), you might not be familiar with the breadboard. The idea of the breadboard is to allow you to connect up electrical components without needing to solder wires or any other elaborate procedure. It’s basically a grid with many holes, into which you can plug
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Authors: Alexandru Radovici, Ioana Culic, Maria Tudor – Wyliodrin Bogdan Doinea – Cisco Networking Academy This document describes how to build a Social Alarm Clock by a team of five people: a manager, a product designer, two engineers and a programmer. Introduction We are going to make a smart wake up lamp. You should already
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