SPECIAL GUEST – Mitch Altman @maltman23 on SHOW AND TELL and ASK AN ENGINEER #showandtell #askanengineer

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This week we have a SPECIAL GUEST – Mitch Altman on SHOW AND TELL and ASK AN ENGINEER! See you there! It all starts at 7:30pm ET Wednesday night! Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as a featured speaker at hacker conferences,...

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Bartosz Ciechanowski Breaks Down the Forces That Act on a Bicycle

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Bartosz Ciechanowski put together this very thorough article full of interactive simulations to help explain all of the forces that allow us to ride bicycles:In this article, I’ll focus on the delicate interplay between many of the forces that act...

Using NoMachine on the Raspberry Pi

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via PiMyLifeUpNoMachine is a free piece of software that you can use to access your Raspberry Pi’s desktop remotely. This software is very much like other remote desktop software, such as TeamViewer or AnyDesk, allowing you to share the desktop...

Plug-and-play Raspberry Pi USB webcam #piday #raspberrypi

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Raspberry Pi posted up this tutorial for using your Pi camera as a webcam. Great for upgrades, angles or just more options!Raspberry Pi now offers a suite of Camera Module 3 variants with 12-megapixel sensors and autofocus functionality, together with...

New Products 3/31/2023 Featuring Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – 868 or 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT! (Video)

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New Products 3/31/2023 Featuring Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – 868 or 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT! (Video) Adafruit 2.7″ Tri-Color eInk / ePaper Display with SRAM – Red Black White (0:18) ESP32-H2-MINI-1 Module – 4MB Flash (1:26) ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1...

Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem

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Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...

“Women’s Work” and the Hidden History of Computer Science and Engineering

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The photo above is of a woman weaving core memory. Sparkfun is wrapping up Women’s History Month by talking about the influence of work traditionally done by women on the fields of computer science and engineering. From using binary code...

Reviving the Great American Vacuum Tube #Audio #Vintage @wired

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Rossville, Georgia, on the border with Tennessee, doesn’t look like a tech town. It’s the kind of place where homey restaurants promising succulent fried chicken and sweet tea are tucked among shuttered businesses and prosperous liquor stores. The cost of living...

An SD card reader shaped like an external floppy drive #MARCHintosh #VintageComputing #Floppy

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A design for a Commodore SD card reader in the shape of an external floppy drive with LED lights has been posted on Printables. It’s a remix from Thingiverse.It’s a real thing to look to integrate SD cards into vintage...

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing #AI #ML @Wired

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Computers have been digital for half a century. Why would anyone want to resurrect the clunkers of yesteryear? Charles Platt at Wired looks into this growing trend when he heard:Bringing back analog computers in much more advanced forms than their...

International Transgender Day of Visibility 2023 #TDOV

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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility! Today, along with the rest of the world, we’re celebrating the transgender and non-binary community. Here’s more from Human Rights Campaign:While we have made significant progress in recent years, with more visibility than ever...