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What is Arduino?

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Inexpensive - Arduino boards are relatively inexpensive compared to other microcontroller platforms. The least expensive version of the Arduino module can be assembled by hand, and even the pre-assembled Arduino modules cost less than $50

with HTML5 canvas, images can be manipulated into grayscale without having to use image editing software. I've put together a demo to show you how to use HTML5 & jQuery to dynamically clone color images into grayscale (see demo). Credits: thanks to Darcy Clarke (my Themify's partner) for the jQuery and Javascript code.

The unit is light weight (2.5 lb), portable, low cost ($10-$20) and can be used to recharge single cell batteries at from 1-3.5 amps. It can be made from a cordless electric drill in a primitive environment. The simplest way of how to make a hand crank DC generator using a standard 12, 14.4 or 18 Volt Cordless drill

With no modification hook an alligator clip jumper to the two charging terminals (on the bottom that the battery plugs into). See picture below. Note that when a 14.4 Volt drill is laid down pointing to the left then the upper terminal is most likely to be the plus and the lower terminal the minus for these units.

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

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XBee Tutorial: Setting up your XBees

XBees are wireless transceivers from Digi that implement the Zigbee protocol. They are simple devices that we can use to set up serial communications between our applications. Using the XBee tutorial you will have your devices talking in no time!

Arduino Ethernet is a collection of libraries I have written to use within the Arduino programming environment in conjunction with the Ethernet shield. While the individual libraries are downloaded within a single archive, they do not depend on each other (unless noted otherwise) and can be used independently. The libraries are published under the GPLv2 (or, at your discretion, any later version). Individual libraries EthernetBonjour | Documentation EthernetDHCP | Documentation EthernetDNS | Documentation Also, by popular demand, I've prepared a very simple demo sketch using DNS, DHCP and Bonjour together. Basically, it gets network configuration data via DHCP, then lets you resolve DNS names via the DNS server received from DHCP, all while announcing its DHCP-assigned IP address via link-local Bonjour — Basically a combination of examples from the individual libraries, which I also recommend to look at, as they contain lots of comments explaining how stuff works.

Accelerometers: ADXL345 Library and Netduino Tutorial

What is an accelerometer? An accelerometer is part of a family of motion sensors consisting of accelerometers, gyroscopes and compasses.

In this document 1. Preparing Your Development Computer 2. Downloading the SDK Starter Package 3. Installing the ADT Plugin for Eclipse 4. Adding Platforms and Other Components Available Components Recommended Components

This page describes how to install the Android SDK and set up your development environment for the first time.