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Video game head tracking with Wii Remote camera
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVideo game head tracking with Wii Remote camera Arduino Team — February 14th, 2018 While the Nintendo Wii has been on the market for well over 10 years, its controllers continue to provide a variety of tools for hacking. One component you may want to consider for your next hack is…
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Hackers are using victims' computers to mine cryptocurrencies
Reading Time: 4 minutesBitcoin (BTC-USD) and the entire range of cryptocurrencies are among the most popular buzzwords in finance at the moment. And despite falling from their late-2017 highs, many investors are still buying into everything from ripple (XRP-USD) and ethereum (ETH-USD) to litecoin (LTC-USD) and ZCash (ZEC-USD). Unfortunately, the increase in crypto’s popularity has,…
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YouTuber creates an organ out of 44 Furbies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYouTuber creates an organ out of 44 Furbies Arduino Team — February 12th, 2018 If you think Furbies have become extinct, think again, as musical hacker “Look Mum No Computer” has decided to revive a number of them to create his own Furby Organ. To make this horrifying yet awesome instrument,…
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Nvidia is scrambling to get graphics cards to gamers amid crypto boom
Reading Time: 4 minutesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang says his company is working to get more graphics cards on the market and into gamers’ hands as cryptominers empty stocks and drive up prices. More Nvidia’s (NVDA) most loyal customers, — gamers — are feeling the squeeze as cryptominers buy up every graphics card they can find,…
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Recreate Optimus Prime’s blaster with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecreate Optimus Prime’s blaster with Arduino Arduino Team — February 9th, 2018 YouTuber Bob Clagett has dreamed of creating his own life-sized Optimus Prime ion blaster for years, and now after hours of 3D printing and finishing, he finally has something worthy of that universe. While he opted to construct it in…
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This week's David Pogue Rated:App is on Facetune
Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to David Pogue’s Rated:App! series. Each week, I’ll buy whatever the No. 1 bestselling app is (on the iOS or Android store) and review it. Maybe I’ll wind up saving you from a few wasted bucks. If you’re viewing this video on your phone, the video plays vertically to fit your…
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This week's David Pogue's Rated:App is on Facetune
Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to David Pogue’s Rated:App! series. Each week, I’ll buy whatever the No. 1 bestselling app is (on the iOS or Android store) and review it. Maybe I’ll wind up saving you from a few wasted bucks. If you’re viewing this video on your phone, the video plays vertically to fit your…
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Pour Reception turns water into radio controls
Reading Time: 2 minutesPour Reception turns water into radio controls Arduino Team — February 8th, 2018 Using a capacitive sensing arrangement, artists Tore Knudsen, Simone Okholm Hansen, and Victor Permild have come up with a way to interact with music with two glasses of water. One pours water into a glass to turn the radio on.…
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Scribble is an Arduino-controlled haptic drawing robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesScribble is an Arduino-controlled haptic drawing robot Arduino Team — February 8th, 2018 As part of his master’s studies at Eindhoven University, Felix Ros created a haptic drawing interface that uses a five-bar linkage system to not only take input from one’s finger, but also act as a feedback device via a…
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Tech salaries in LA and Austin are catching up with Silicon Valley
Reading Time: 4 minutesTech salaries across different countries are rising, some faster than others, according to a new study. More Silicon Valley is notorious for its stratospheric tech salaries and cost of living to match. But a new tech salary report released by jobs site Hired.com on Thursday indicates that companies in tech hubs elsewhere,…
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The Strava social exercise app can reveal your home address
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Strava social exercise app can be used to locate a user’s home. More A new report claims that the activity-tracking social network Strava — already knocked off stride when it was revealed that its users were unwittingly mapping out secret U.S. military bases overseas — has a major privacy problem: it…
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Everything you need to know before buying a smartphone
Reading Time: 4 minutesI love buying new smartphones. Who doesn’t get a rush from buying the latest, coolest tech? Especially when it’s a device you’re going to use as often as your handset. But when I head to the store, or, let’s face it, search online, there are a few very important things I keep…
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SpaceX successfully launches the world's most powerful rocket
Reading Time: 4 minutesKENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Earth has one less sports car. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off at 3:45 p.m., inaugurating itself as the most powerful launch vehicle in service and sending founder Elon Musk’s Tesla (TSLA) Roadster towards a one-way ride out of Earth orbit. The 230-foot-tall rocket launched at Launch Complex…
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Automated IC testing with Arduino Mega
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomated IC testing with Arduino Mega Arduino Team — February 5th, 2018 Arduino boards by themselves are, of course, great for making a wide array of projects. Sometimes, however, you’ll need to add other integrated circuits (ICs) for extra functionality. If you want to be absolutely sure that the IC you’re…
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The email privacy hole Congress won’t fix
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe government has, time and again, refused to fix this major issue. More Of all the good tech-policy ideas dying a slow death in Congress, none has sunk to a deeper level of “Groundhog Day” futility than the effort to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. That law tech-policy types…
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How Nintendo is pulling off an incredible comeback
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s not just the Switch that has fans and the street excited about Nintendo, though. The company is also diving deeper into smartphone gaming with the announcement that it will bring its popular “Mario Kart” franchise to Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Android and Apple’s (AAPL) iOS handsets sometime within the next fiscal year.…
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Uber and Waymo are finally going to trial. Why we should care
Reading Time: 3 minutesUber has a lot at stake with Waymo vs. Uber, which finally goes to trial on Monday. More After months of scandal and delay, the biggest trial in Uber’s history, both figuratively and literally, finally kicks off on Monday. The judge and jury in a San Francisco federal court will seek to…
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The coolest mobile games of the month: January 2018 edition
Reading Time: 6 minutesThese are the best mobile games of January 2018. More Cutting-edge consoles like the Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch might score more headlines and pump out flashier games, but when it comes to sheer size, no gaming platform on the planet can compete with the smartphone in your pocket. With an…
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The best iPhone and Android games of the month: January 2018 edition
Reading Time: 6 minutesThese are the best mobile games of January 2018. More Cutting-edge consoles like the Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch might score more headlines and pump out flashier games, but when it comes to sheer size, no gaming platform on the planet can compete with the smartphone in your pocket. With an…
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Kid’s kitchen beeps with the help of an Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKid’s kitchen beeps with the help of an Arduino Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 While Roald Hendriks is quite pleased with the build quality of the IKEA DUKTIG play kitchen, it does lack one thing—the ability to say “beep.” This feature was requested by his daughter, who for her third…
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Rotary encoders and Arduino combine for awesome universal remote
Reading Time: 2 minutesRotary encoders and Arduino combine for awesome universal remote Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 In his latest hack, “Matlek” has come up with an entirely new take on the universal remote, using a pair of rotary encoders instead of an array of buttons to output up to 400 individual signals. One…
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Automatic guitar strumming with Arduino Uno and chopsticks
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatic guitar strumming with Arduino Uno and chopsticks Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 If you like to make music, but don’t consider yourself particularly talented, YouTuber Make It And Fake It has come up with an innovative solution. Her device uses an Arduino Uno, along with a hobby servo motor…
