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Advancements in VR Technology Will Improve Immersion and Comfort
The biggest VR headsets have been on the market for nearly a year now. Even with all that time, developers are still ironing out some kinks and finding new ways to improve the hardware. Often times the more powerful headsets tend to be heavy and uncomfortable, putting unnecessary strain on the head and neck. This…
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HiMedia’s Q10 Pro Is A Plus Sized Android TV Box
HiMedia’s Q10 pro is not your average Android TV box with limited capabilities, there is hardly any feature that you cannot find on this bulky beast. Having been testing it for a while now, we feel it is a complete package for any AV enthusiast as it not only has the next gen capabilities like…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Coder Review
Google recently launched their own Raspberry Pi project which is free, open-source and is available in Github for you to mess around with. Coder is a platform which can simplify the lives of teachers and educators who teach basics of building on the web. It is a platform which creates a local server and lets…
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UDOO: The only prototyping board you’ll ever need
The first to arrive was the Arduino. It made prototyping easy and fast, but not interfacing with computers. Then came the RaspberryPi. It was totally different from the Arduino. It was more of a computer and for electrical prototyping it had GPIO pins in it, but it was still not as efficient as the Arduino…