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Infrared Inhaler

Infrared Inhaler

Back when Sam [https://positronic.works/author/analog-sam/] and I were running SumoBot matches as corporate teambuilding events at TechShop San Francisco [http://www.techshop.ws/tssf.html] one of the common issues the participants encountered was a failure of the bot to detect objects in its path. The cause

USB knob rescue

USB knob rescue

One of the devices which Atticus destroyed a while back is a favorite, even though I don't use it often. It's my Griffin PowerMate [https://griffintechnology.com/us/products/stylus-keyboards/powermate], which is, in a word, a knob. Don't get me wrong. It'

SSL on a Beaglebone Black: balancing performance with security

SSL on a Beaglebone Black: balancing performance with security

(Originally posted to Monochromatic Outlook [https://splicer.com/]) I’ve recently set up a local server on a Beaglebone Black [http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone+Black], which is a credit-card sized computer with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. I’m using it as a cloud server to sync my calendar