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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. But for the vast majority of people, a DIY approach isn't practical, and buying something that works out of the box and comes with a friendly app seems like it would be worth a cost premium. Recent technological developments are introducing personal service robots into the home.

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DEED advertising pays off

Electric Auto Association

The members of EAA San Joaquin Valley (EAASJV), largely held back from holding in-person events since the chapter’s founding in 2019 due to the pandemic, were determined to make their 2022 Drive Electric Earth Day event a rousing success. We shared ideas on how to do that; personally, I read a book about marketing.”

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

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For years, I have been trying to improve my personal audio-monitoring situation without going to the expense of the systems used by professional touring bands, which include custom-molded earpieces. My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones.

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Security With a Spectrometer

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To see what idea the device would spark in me for a consumer-focused application. What if it could be used to unlock the phone by scanning, say, one’s skin tone—or rather, personal spectral signature? I soon realized skin tone wasn’t a good idea. It would also have to be something I’d consistently have on my person.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Registration is open ; guests can attend in person or virtually. It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didn’t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.”. The dedication ceremony is scheduled for 26 April at the Kodak Center in Rochester.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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The premise of the investigation itself is enough to whet the appetite of every Tesla skeptic since the idea of Autopilot crashing consistently into parked emergency vehicles makes for a compelling narrative. A DIY Solution. These drivers consciously made an intentional personal decision to carelessly disregard the life of a responder.

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Chip Shortage Challenges Maker Manufacturers

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In turn, ideas from the maker community bubble back up into industrial settings, often via engineers seeking quick or inexpensive solutions to problems—consequently both the Raspberry Pi and Arduino lines now feature pro products designed for commercial embedded systems. We've seen profiteering in the part space that is amazing.