lightsensor = ADC(Pin(26)) # initialises light sensor for use with pin 26 in ADC mode light = lightsensor.read_u16() # stores light reading as 16-bit integer ...

The RAMpocalypse is affecting every corner of computing, but one sector hit particularly hard has been the field of single-board computing (SBC). Systems like Raspberry Pis are particularly vulnerable ...

Capacitive displacement sensors span a wide range of resolution, from the touchscreen sensors which can only detect displacement as a binary state, all the way to the sensors in semiconductor fabs ...

When it comes to hacks, we’re always amazed by the aesthetic of the design as much as we are by the intricacies of the circuit or the cleverness of the software. We think it’s always fun to assemble ...

Scientists take the next step in next step in understanding how the brain compresses huge "files" of visual information down to the essentials. Most of us are familiar with the idea of image ...

Yesterday, I wrote about a 2-year-old open-source hardware ESP32-based DAB+ receiver project, but it turns out there’s also a digital radio project for the Raspberry Pi that was released about three ...

Local → Remote Files are streamed as chunked tar batches over SSH. Remote runs tar xf - to extract on the fly Remote → Local Remote runs tar cf -, local extracts with streaming extraction — files ...

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