Tilt ball switch are small and cheap electronic sensors able to detect inclination. While not being as accurate like accelerometers, they are small, inexpensive and easy to use. For this reason tilt ball switches are popular for toys and gadgets. Tilt ball switch are usually made of an internal cavity with a free conductive mass […]
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Raspberry PI boards can perform very well to provide complete web server functions with very small budgets. They also have very low power consumption, so many people can start a web page at affordable costs. LAMP is a server composed of the following elements (each one composing the LAMP acronym): Besides installing LAMP server to
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Email communication remained one of most used media even with raising of social networks and instant messaging services. It is free, it is unlimited and it can be configured to send complex messages. An addictional usage is with IoT devices, sending mails when defined thresholds are triggered. Quite everyone owns an email address and can
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With the increasing hardware variety of monitor / TV, using Raspberry PI with a different HDMI monitor or TV can lead to video issues from first boot. In these cases, both Raspberry PI OS Lite and Desktop distributions can suffer problems in showing their interfaces on screen, resulting in unusable video. This kind of problem
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One common problem with Raspberry PI OS is mouse speed. This problem isn’t linked to OS by itself, but appears to be more related to some mouse hardware. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to fix slow/lagging mouse cursor. Mouse Poll Rate Raspberry PI OS exchanges position and click data with mouse
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install FireFly III with Docker on a credit card-sized, cheap computer: Raspberry PI. Having finance under control is a good way to correctly manage money and analyze what expenses can be reduced to save. Usually, many internet services offer solutions to manage your money, but
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Active buzzer is a cheap electronic component able to produce a sound when powered with a DC current. Differently from passive buzzer, this element includes a built-in oscillator. This allow user to make it working by powering on and without the need to simulate an electronic square wave. It includes 2 rear pins. The longer
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With smart devices becoming familiar also to very young people, kids are going to be more and more exposed to web content. Unfortunately, the web also become populated by people with rather questionable purposes. This means that controlling home devices and defending them from accessing dangerous sites is a must for parents all over the
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