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HummingBoard Development Board – Raspberry Pi Alternative
A TV system running on android, a virtual DJ mixer or even running a custom-made Android phone. Since the advent of development boards there has been no limits on the imagination of electronic enthusiastic’s. Until now Raspberry Pi was synonymous with every entry-level and amateur students and professionals. Then came a plethora of stand alone development…
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Windows Powered Smartphone Launched by Micromax
Little over a week, Xolo launched its first windows mobile based smartphone. Micromax has now followed suite and has launched two devices priced under 10,000 INR. Microsoft made the announcement on the launch of two devices powered by its Windows Phone 8.1 OS. The reason for such cheap priced Windows Phone is because Microsoft removed…
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Everything Microsoft at E3 2014
What does Microsoft at E3 2014 have to offer the gaming community ? Let’s have a look. At E3 2013, it was a massive downfall for Microsoft in promoting Xbox One. It was Sony’s Playstation 4 which had taken all the fame and trust overthrowing Microsoft’s Xbox One. The question still remains, has Xbox One…
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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…
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What’s new in Windows 8.1 Update ?
Windows 8 has undoubtedly been a milestone in terms of change but not success. Microsoft has been patiently listening to the community and fixing everything possible to please its customers. The windows 8.1 update did manage to please few but much more was expected from the redmond based company. It has been no surprise that Windows…
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Microsoft Goes Desperate; Waives Off Licensing Fee Of Windows Mobile For Indian OEM’s
Microsoft’s windows mobile OS has definitely failed to make any impact globally. It has literally crumbled to the volume of phones running either iOS or Android. Especially in India, It has been miserable and failed to pierce the market. Microsoft has undoubtedly been trying to lure various OEM’s to produce windows phones but talks with Indian OEM’s who…
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Satya Nadella is the new Microsoft CEO
Microsoft finally named Satya Nadella as their new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer who had announced his retirement few months ago. Nadella will take in charge as the CEO immediately allowing Ballmer to retire early. The announcement also included that Bill Gates is stepping down as the Chairman of Microsoft and Microsoft’s lead independent director…
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Raspberry Pi sells more than 2 Million Units
Raspberry Pi Foundation recently announced that more than 2 million Raspberry Pi units have been sold since it’s launch. The foundation expected that it would sell 2 million Raspberry Pi units by January 2014 or at least by February 2014 but, when the sales report came out, they were in shock because the 2 millionth…
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Vine for Windows Phone Finally Released
Vine which was demoed during Nokia World 2013 event in Abu Dhabi last month has finally been released to the public on the Windows Phone Store.It’s a moment of relief for the Windows Phone users at last as the popular applications from iOS and Android get Windows Phone versions.The Windows Phone version of Vine supports…
