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Kevin John
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Huawei Honor Holly 2 Plus Review
Huawei is a company which will ring a bell to anyone because they’ve existed for a long time and has been a pioneer in communication. Honor Holly 2 is a budget phone from Huawei. Huawei has constantly been evolving, and they’ve been making a few premium phones too. But the biggest hit for Huawei was…
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Chat without Internet using Firechat
Due to heavy rains in Chennai, mobile phone towers in Chennai are going down due to the extended periods of power cuts. Most of them are down as the generators they’ve been running on are probably out of fuel by now. Firechat is an app that works on peer to peer messaging and hence doesn’t need…
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How To Control Arduino Pins Through Ethernet
If you are short on money and cannot afford a Raspberry Pi for your Internet Of Things project you can use the Arduino with an ethernet shield to control the pins and read the values Follow this short tutorial to create a project to control a few LED’s with the GPIO pins and read Analog…
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How to use Whatsapp Web
Following the ban wave of Whatsapp Plus users Whatapp CEO Jan Koum posted a status update announcing Whatsapp for Web. The update is not yet live on the Play Store but you can grab the beta from here and install to start using Whatsapp for Web. http://www.whatsapp.com/android/beta/WhatsApp.apk Once you have installed the beta Whatsapp you will need…
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Build Ethernet Controlled Home Automation using Arduino
This project has been implemented for quite a while and lot of improvements have been made since the original demo which has a lot of functions at Arduino Day 2014 at Chennai. I decided to make this code open source after a lot of requests came in after I opened up my room up to…
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How To Build an Airplay Receiver using Raspberry Pi
Back in 2011, Steve Jobs introduced the AirPlay on iPad 2. It was amazing and could mirror the whole iPad screen to a HD TV. But, you’ll need a $100 Apple TV. It is a bit expensive if you want to use only the AirPlay services and not anything else like Hulu and Netflix. It…
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Xiaomi launches 13$ Fitness Band called “Mi Band”
Xiaomi announced the Mi3 successor, Mi4 with all new improved specs and numbers at a event in Beijing, China. This was not the only best thing that was announced during the event, Xiaomi announced it’s 13$ Mi band which is a wearable device available in a range of colors. Mi Band’s primary task is for…
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Madrasters Workshop on Typography and UI/UX
Madrasters are organising an event on Typography and UI/UX in the month of June 2014 in Chennai. Madrasters community has one stop place where Designers, Art lovers, Photographers and Photoshop users come, meet and discuss. It’s a open group where everyone can share and learn about Photoshop. Madrasters was previously also known as Photoshop User…
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Make a Blinking LED Project with Arduino
As a first project, making sure everything works as intended and just to show how simple it is to create a working program, we will make a microcontroller version of “Hello, World!”: A blinking LED light. Depending on what board you have, you may need an additional LED if one does not come along on…
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How to Build a Raspberry Pi Radio Transmitter
Learn how to build a FM Radio Transmitter using a Raspberry Pi. This little hack doesn’t need anything much other than the Raspberry Pi and a Jumper cable. It allows you to transmit any audio content through the Raspberry Pi. Building this Raspberry Pi Radio Transmitter wouldn’t take more than 15-20 minutes to set up…
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Enable Cortana in Windows Phone 8.1 Outside US
If you are outside of the US you probably don’t have Cortana after you updated to Windows 8.1. The majority of the Windows Phone features work worldwide but Cortana is restricted to US Windows Phone’s because most of the features are restricted to the US environment. Well there is always a workaround, This simple trick…
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Learn to use Arduino IDE
So we’ve seen what are the different type of Arduinos and what are Arduino Shields in the past. Now lets go ahead and see what is required to communicate with your Arduino board. There is a Arduino software that needs to installed on the computer to allow interaction of Arduino over USB. The Arduino IDE…
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What are Arduino Shields ?
A great addition to the Arduino project was the introduction of Arduino Shields which are directly mountable on an Arduino board, providing extra functionality such as wireless communication, ethernet or servo/stepper motor control. The possibilities of the hardware are just limitless and this adds to the increased functionality with the Arduino’s. The functionality directly depends…
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Getting Started with Arduino
Welcome to the amazing world of Arduino! Started by students at the Design Institute of Ivrea, Italy, in 2005, Arduino has sparked innovation across all ages. From the sheer fun of making an LED blink once per second to running a fully working 3D printer to powering a small satellite, what you can do with…
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Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is ultra-low cost credit card sized computer that fits right in your pocket. It was made by the Raspberry Pi foundation to promote basic computer science in schools. Raspberry Pi with its advantages like small size and cost have made it way into almost every remote corner of the world. It reduced the…