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BML GPIO 14 USB Board for PCs

BML GPIO-14 USB Board for PCs

Ever miss the simple days of using a PC’s LPT1 parallel port to bit-bang GPIO over 8 output pins and 4 input pins of the DB-25 connector? I sure do. My first design project as a BSEE graduate in 1993 was to design a LPT1 controlled test fixture for the Motorola MDT-9100-T data terminal (shown […]

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Alexa makes home smarter

Alexa makes home smarter

Story Amazon Echo can control smart home devices(Philip Hue lights, Belkin’s WeMo switch system). But those things are pretty expensive. If you have Infrared remote control lights(or other), this project brings these device to smart home device. How does it work? Talk to Amazon Echo “Alexa, tell pi home lights on” Alexa Voice Service invoke

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GrovePi Windows IoT LED Fade

GrovePi Windows IoT: LED Fade

Introduction to GrovePi with Windows IOT: LED Fade Tutorial This project shows how to fade a LED with the raspberry pi. We cover the hardware and software setup in which we connect the Grove Pi to a rotary angle sensor (a fancy name for a potentiometer). The Raspberry Pi reads the analog value and dims

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Learn to use I2C Accelerometer

Learn to use I2C Accelerometer

I2C Accelerometer Sample We’ll connect an I2C accelerometer to your Raspberry Pi 2/MinnowBoard Max/DragonBoard and create a simple app to read data from it. We’ll walk you through step-by-step, so no background knowledge of I2C is needed. However, if you’re curious, SparkFun provides a great tutorial on I2C. This is a headed sample. To better understand what

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Connected Clock Radio

Connected Clock Radio

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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