by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 26, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, IoT
For some reason, it seems like most of the plant monitoring setups we see separate the plant and the monitoring system. This makes sense in a don’t-own-a-waterbed-and-a-cat kind of way, but it also doesn’t from an aestheitc standpoint. This build by [Jorge Enrique...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 6, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Remote
For devices that are destined for momentary and infrequent use as well as battery power, some kind of power saving is pretty much a required feature. For example, when [PJ Allen] turned two ESP8266-based NodeMCU development boards into a replacement wireless remote...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 2, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
Some might look at a cheap inkjet printer and see a clunky device that costs more to replace the ink than to buy a new one. [Abhishek Verma] saw an old inkjet printer and instead saw a smooth gantry and feed mechanism, the perfect platform to build his own DIY vinyl...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 27, 2021 | [Tech News], Apple, Hackaday
When asked why he robbed banks, career criminal Willie Sutton is reported to have said, “Because that’s where the money is.” It turns out that a reporter made up the quote, but it’s a truism that offers by extension insight into why ATMs and...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 26, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
The quest for truly random numbers is something to which scientists and engineers have devoted a lot of time and effort. The trick is to find an unpredictable source of naturally occurring noise that can be sampled, so they have looked towards noisy gas discharge...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 14, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
[Ben Heck] found an old card-swipe point-of-sale box at the Goodwill store, took it home, and tore it down to see what was inside. He found a completely serviceable single board computer based on the Z80. In fact, there’s a whole family of four Z80 chips: the...
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