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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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20 Mar

Adventures in Science: Arduino Literals, Variables and Data Types

We present another set of concepts in the computer science series as they relate to Arduino.

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17 Mar

Friday Product Post: Seeing Green

Aren't you lucky! More RFID parts, a new add-on for the Teensy and a brand-new BeagleBone!

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16 Mar

Enginursday: Pandora's Box - The Moving Motion Detector

As I've been on location the past couple months attached to a secret project, I decided this week's build was going to be a motion detector I could use in the field.

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