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    Are you in search of a relay board for your next Raspberry Pi project? The RELAYS-4-HATS could be the missing piece you need for your project puzzle. The RELAYS-4-HAT is designed specifically for Raspberry Pi A / B. It is a four-channel relay switch control expansion board. The expansion board has the following features: Four medium-power switching relays Four user-defined buttons Five pin button external expansion interface One I2C external expansion interface, which is compatible with GROVE interface Screwless Terminal Block Small and medium power electrical …

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I was a manager at at a high tech government contractor in the early 90’s and I remember sitting working on my very large mainframe computer when my boss enters the room announcing he has a surprise for me. He sits on my desk this very large 12″ x 6″ x 10″ contraption that appeared to be some sort of phone.  Quite heavy for me.  I was intrigued to say the least.  We have heard about mobile phones being tested and tried several places but mainly being used …

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The majority of the people are able to remember the old electric timers we would be so excited to plug into our lamps before we left for vacation.  My mother used to say this is so anyone watching our house won’t know we are not home.  She would sit it to come on at dusk and off about 11pm.  It was not easy sitting the time and power failures would really mess them up.  Now we have the new and easy smart plug from Amazon which handles away …

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The 2020 #1 Indoor Camera is the “Wyze Cam 1080p HD Indoor Wireless Smart Home Camera with Night Vision”‘.   So many people hear the term smart house and picture the Jetson’s, or imagine a very complicated connection setup and even more stressful a very complicated procedure to actually use it.  I can’t tell you how many times I have heard I am not a computer person.  I don’t think so….and they pass up on some of the best inventions of our time.  Well, I am here to tell …

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For the past few months, we’ve been running a machine learning contest on Hackster. Last Friday, we announced our winners for the four categories: Business, Home, Nature and Wild Card. We were blown away by the projects submitted and are excited to share them with you! For some background, here was the challenge: How would you utilize SparkFun’s RedBoard Artemis ATP, Qwiic components and machine learning? We’re looking for the next great group of projects to show how these three items can be incorporated into everyday life. Onto …

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  Competitiveness is one of my stronger qualities. I’m still trying to decide if that’s a good or bad thing. My close friends and family may favor the latter. While I contemplate my penchant for winning, check out this hilariously named competitive speed game on Tindie! The ButtSnap, yes that’s the real name, is a simple competitive speed game meant to be played by two players. This product is a mini PCB with two buttons, one for each player, and three LEDs, the center LED is the trigger …

Will Your Friendship Survive This Versus Game? Read More »

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In today’s tutorial, we will have a look at How Does Bandwidth Affect Website Performance? Today we’re going to discuss something that everyday users and new website owners sometimes find confusing i.e. bandwidth. How much bandwidth is enough, and what happens when you have too little. Is it possible to squeeze data through if it’s insufficient? Can you get more? Before we get into those questions, it helps to explain what bandwidth is and how it works. What is …

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In a pre-cursor I doubt anyone reading this needs, Raspberry Pi is a foundation out of the UK that produces a set of ultra-inexpensive computers capable of running operating systems at previously-unheard-of pricing. The boards these days range in price from $10 to $60. They marked a resurgence in the phrase “single board computer,” and have become a new benchmark in performance for a number of incredible uses. For me, the Raspberry Pi had an interesting effect: my friends suddenly understood what I did. Working at SparkFun during …

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