Google has been responsible for unleashing some pretty incredible hardware and software on the world, but they can only take partial credit for the voice to Morse code gadget that [WhiskeyTangoHotel] recently completed. With the Google AIY Voice Bonnet, [WhiskeyTangoHotel] had everything he needed to pick up on human speech and turn that into text the Raspberry Pi […]
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There is a romance to notions of a byegone age of DJing — driving a pair of Technics 1200s dwarfed on either side by the stacks, pumping techno bass through the laser-tinged darkness into a hungry crowd. Even if the reality of early evening Saturday wedding parties playing inoffensive crooners for the 50-somethings didn’t really
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Learn how to install the Snips.ai offline voice assistant, through the SAM CLI tool, for the MATRIX Creator and MATRIX Voice. THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN DEPRECATED The Snips Console has been closed and cannot be used anymore. If you’re looking for an alternative voice assistant, you can follow our guide here. Required Hardware Before getting started, let’s review
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NXP Semiconductors MPC5777C Power Architecture® Microcontroller is a high-performance, multicore MCU optimized for industrial and automotive control applications that require advanced performance, timing systems, security, and functional safety capabilities. The MPC5777C features two independent Power Architecture z7 cores with up to 300MHz operation, along with a single z7 core in Lockstep with one of the main cores.
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Learn how to use Blynk with Node.js on a variety of platforms. Ever wanted to control “some THING” from your smartphone? Now it’s really easy. Blynk is a universal remote control, that can also display and plot data (and works over internet). It makes prototyping Internet of Things applications so easy, that many people call it “IoT
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PCB stencils make application of solder paste a snap, but there’s a long, fussy way to go before the paste goes on. You’ve got to come up with some way to accurately align the stencil over the board, which more often than not involves a jury-rigged setup using tape and old PCBs, along with a
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Hackstaer.io member Tyeth has published a new Raspberry Pi ZeroW project offering a quick recreation of the pimoroni python example using nodered as the trigger, with dynamic text. if you have not yet had a chance to play with your Inky PHAT, this new project is classed as a beginner skilled build and should take
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Martin Thomas is an NVIDIA engineer, and he has concocted something very cool that fans of retro games and tiny single board PCs will really appreciate. He has taken an inexpensive Raspberry Pi 3B+ and transformed it into a machine that is capable of running a version of Quake3 at over 100 fps. To get the game
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the newer Raspberry Pi 4 gets all the love. For instance, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working on drivers for the GPU to support the Vulkan 3D graphics API. But those of you with crusty old Pi boards shouldn’t despair. [Martin Thomas], a developer working for Nvidia has produced a
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The world’s fastest 100% open-source hardware single-board computer. Popcorn Computer is a next generation single-board computer brand. They would like to present the result of two years of effort by Source Parts, two brand-new and unique open hardware computers: Original Popcornand Super Popcorn. Super Popcorn It comes in two flavors, one with 4 CPUs, Super Popcorn, and another
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