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Figure 11: The Pocket version of the firmware comes with a touch-friendly interface.

Exploring the Tiny $9 C.H.I.P. Computer

Up Close with C.H.I.P.

31.08.2018

The C.H.I.P. is a cute little thing, but don't let appearances fool you: It is quite the beast deep down, and you can squeeze some seriously fun projects out of it.

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Figure 1: The particulate matter sensor from the Far East that Charly connected to his Raspberry Pi.

The sys admin's daily grind: SparkFun

SYSADMIN: Trouble in the Air free

Is your neighbor burning the wrong kind of wood or did a couple of VWs just pass by your house? Charly finds out with a sensor. For an attractive approach to visualizing boring measurement figures, you can either use your own web server or rely on a specialized service like SparkFun.

Hardware , Peripherals
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Reading Weather Data with Software-Defined Radio

Waverider – Software Defined Radio

25.03.2014

Armed with a US$ 20 hunk of hardware and a free software-defined radio tool, we start the hunt for radio-transmitted data from a weather station.

DVB-T , RTL-SDR , SDR , software-define...
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