Arduino Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Arduino Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

But first…some history! First there was the serial Arduino (what's the name of it?) with RS232 which was not used outside of the Arduino team & friends. The first popularly manufactured Arduino was called the NG (New Generation, like Star Trek, yknow?) The NG used the Atmega8 chip running at 16 MHz and an FT232 chip for the USB interface. The bootloader ...

16 Sites That Let You Create Cartoons and Avatars from Your Photos

16 Sites That Let You Create Cartoons and Avatars from Your Photos

Creating cartoons avatars from photos is fun, especially when you want to use them as profile pictures on various online services. Since adding effects to images is quite popular, many websites providing this service have cropped up in recent times. In this post, we have compiled the most popular services that let you cartoonize your photos and create yo ...

Set up the L2TP VPN Connection on Windows 10

Step 1. Edit L2TP Network Settings Click on the Network icon (tray icon) and then click on the Network Settings link.

Sentinelhub Documentation

The package contains a configuration file config.json. After the package is installed you can check the initial configuration parameters in command line: $ sentinelhub.config --show 2.1 Sentinel Hub Capabilities The instance_id parameter will be empty. In case you would like to use any capabilities of the package that interact with Sentinel Hub services ...

Iphone Data Recovery Apps 2019

Iphone Data Recovery Apps 2019

Many people store a lot of valuable information in their iPhone including photos, videos, voice recordings, memos, phone numbers files etc. Losing such important data is very common as these electronic devices are manmade and are bound to fail unexpectedly or can get lost. If you find yourself in such a situation, then you have no need to worry since thi ...

Reading Configurations

Reading Configurations

Phalcon\Config is a component used to convert configuration files of various formats (using adapters) into PHP objects for use in an application. Values can be obtained from Phalcon\Config as follows:

Visual Studio Code Tips & Tricks Vol. 1

Visual Studio Code Tips & Tricks Vol. 1

Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of waht developers need for their core code-build-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool-supporting OS X, linux, and Windows-in t ...

Looking Glass Holographic Display Is Here to Help You Design the Future

Looking Glass Holographic Display Is Here to Help You Design the Future

A slice of virtual reality without the cumbersome, isolating headset. That's the best way I have to convey how liberating it feels to interact with three-dimensional content without having to gear up. The Looking Glass Factory's Looking Glass display doesn't give you the full surround -- or even 180 degree -- experience you get with a headset, but that's ...

CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

This document describes techniques for authoring accessible Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Cascading Style Sheets are defined by the W3C Recommendations "CSS Level 1" [CSS1] [p. 21] and "CSS Level 2" [CSS2] [p. 21] . This document is intended to help authors of Web content who wish to claim conformance to "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" ([WCAG1 ...

Plastic SCM Proxy Server Explained

Plastic SCM Proxy Server Explained

One of the new features we introduced with the 2.9 release is the Proxy Server. As you know Plastic is all about flexibility, so it can behave as a DVCS or as a centralized system. When you run Plastic in centralized mode, especially on wide area networks or across VPNs, you’ll be hit by network issues: latency, slow down, connection problems… Then you h ...

5 Ways to Do a Site-Specific Search Using Search Engines

5 Ways to Do a Site-Specific Search Using Search Engines

Life’s primary vocation is search”¦ for happiness, for love or for that vital piece of information on the web. Search and search engines are the glue that binds the WWW together. Search engines bring us to the doorstep of the right information resources. But very frequently, we need to dig deeper into a single site to harvest its information. That is why ...

Tome of Ultimate Mapping

Tome of Ultimate Mapping

As you read this, you are probably already familiar with Campaign Cartographer 3+. You have installed the software, read the manual, and tried the tutorials you found within it. You might even have tried out the annuals. In any case, we will assume that you are familliar with the basic of the CC3+ interface, allowing us to skip giving detailed explanatio ...

Raspberry Pi Or Arduino Uno One Simple Rule to Choose the Right Board

Raspberry Pi Or Arduino Uno One Simple Rule to Choose the Right Board

Here at Make: we see new, ingenious projects from our community every day. Many of these are made possible by the use of development boards. However, if you’re new to the subject, it can be confusing to parse out the differences between boards and the advantages of using one over another. We’ve created this super simple guide to help you get started. The ...

Popular Iphone Games to Play in 2019

Popular Iphone Games to Play in 2019

If you've got a new or upgraded iPhone, or are simply just bored with what you've already got, then you'll be exhilarated to hear that you can revolutionise it, turning it into one of the greatest consoles of all time. That's because the iPhone arguably kicked off the mobile gaming revolution, becoming home to exciting multitouch innovation through to po ...

Windows 7 End of Life Everything You Need to Know

Windows 7 End of Life Everything You Need to Know

Microsoft recently announced that it will officially begin the Windows 7 end of life phase on Jan. 14, 2020. On that day, the company will stop supporting Windows 7 on laptops and desktops, and will no longer patch it with security updates. Of course, that might cause some consternation for consumers and enterprise users alike. Windows 7 is still a wildl ...

How to Identify Fonts in Pictures

How to Identify Fonts in Pictures

Choosing the proper font for a flier, title page, or even a graphic can be a difficult task. Sometimes the standard fonts installed on your operating system just don't cut it, and browsing free font Web sites can be a time sink with no guaranteed results. However, you may see or recall an image with a really awesome font, but have no way of contacting th ...