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30 Mar

Friday Product Post: All THAT

Two new audio boards that utilize the InGenius and OutSmarts IC suite, as well as a new digital servo!

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30 Mar

When SparkX builds a safe cracking robot, everyone wins!

But when guessing the time and the combination, only two people can win

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30 Mar

Enginursday: Home-Brew Alexa Endpoint

Amazon has released an example allowing you to create an Alexa endpoint on a Raspberry Pi 3 (or 2B). It's free and open source, so you can tear it apart, see how it works and modify it as you see fit!

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29 Mar

Hardware Hump Day: Remote Smoke Machine Prank

Let's build a small smoke machine to harass our friends and colleagues!

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28 Mar

IoTuesday: WiFi Maximizer with DIY Yagi-Uda Antenna

I create a Yagi antenna out of Popsicle sticks and paperclips and use it to measure connection strength (RSSI) to WiFi access points.

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27 Mar

Adventures in Science: Arduino Arithmetic Operators

How to use the various math operators and compound assignment operators in C/C++.

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27 Mar

Safe Cracking with Robots

What's in the box?! Opening a safe with a little intelligence and a little brute force.

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24 Mar

Friday Product Post: All's Well That Means Well

A whole slew of new power supplies to help bring your next project to life!

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23 Mar

Enginursday: Battery Management

This post explores how to use the power control features of the Battery Babysitter to make a product with the features we expect from portable embedded electronics.

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