Camera traps are a very common tool in wildlife conservation and research, but placing and pointing them correctly can be a bit of a guessing game. Something very interesting could happen just out of frame and you’d be none the wiser. The [Andrew Quitmeyer] and [Danielle Hoogendijk] at DINALABS (Digital Naturalism Laboratories) in Panama are […]
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Acrosser Technology has recently released a brand new entry-level 3.5” single board computer (SBC). This new AMB-BT19S1 single board computer is powered by an Intel Bay Trail SoC. It features 8GB RAM, dual display support, plus SATA, mSATA, mini-PCIe, serial, USB 3.0, and GbE ports. As the SBC market has already seen newer Atom processor families such as Cherry Trail, Braswell,
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Boost USB Current in Raspberry Pi 2 and B+ Story So you’ve got a Raspberry Pi, but the USB output current isn’t driving what you need it too? One of the newer features on the Raspberry Pi B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is improved power management. By default, the 4 USB ports on
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In the dark days (or good old days) before the advent of the smartphone, there was the T-Mobile Sidekick (also known as the Danger Hiptop). It was a phone with a screen that you could slide up to reveal a QWERTY keyboard that you could use for typing text messages. The days of the Sidekick may be
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Were you aware that there’s a market for backpack-housed live streaming video systems, and that they can cost as much as $1600? Apparently these things are popular with social media moguls who want to stream themselves living their fabulous lives to people sitting at home watching on YouTube or Twitch. But believing that even slack
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If your Raspberry Pi 4 projects are making the mini PC run a little hotter than expected, you may be interested in a new video created by Christopher Barnatt over at Explaining Computers. Following on from creating his very own custom cooling solution for the Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC. Christopher has also put a
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For many of us, ad hoc projects end up having a certain permanence to them. Think of the number of Raspberry Pis and RTL-SDRs that are just dangling from a USB cable under a desk or stuffed behind a monitor, quietly going about their business. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Some projects,
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It probably goes without saying that hardware hackers were excited when the Raspberry Pi 4 was announced, but it wasn’t just because there was a new entry into everyone’s favorite line of Linux SBCs. The new Pi offered a number of compelling hardware upgrades, including an onboard PCI-Express interface. The only problem was that the
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The dog days of summer have come and gone, folks. But that doesn’t mean the fun is over. In fact, something (debatably) more exciting has arrived: sale season. Starting with Labor Day weekend, the season of deals upon deals is about to take off. To celebrate, we’ve dug into the Mashable Shop and have rounded
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[MisterM] seems to specialize in squeezing new electronics into old but good-looking technology. His latest creation focuses on a space-age specimen: an interesting car radio from 1963 that could be pulled out from the dashboard and taken along wherever. The beat goes on, thanks to a shiny built-in speaker on the bottom. He replaced the non-working radio
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