Putting microcontrollers in everything and tying appliances into the internet has become the DIYers’ bread and butter. There’s a ton of benefits from an Internet-enabled coffee maker, but actually building these projects takes a little bit of knowledge. Enter [Dave] and [John] with Twine – a little Internet enabled box that connects physical reality to …
Physical computing just got a lot easier
Voice recognition system controls everything, hopefully won’t kill us.
[Aaron Bitler] and [Bud Townsend] have been working a natural user system that is, in their own words, “what android@home should have been.” The video they posted is pretty impressive. The automation system responds to voice and can control appliances, ‘throw a party’, and provide a user with their location. This is just the foundation …
Infrared control for appliances
[RB] at Embedded Lab sent in a great guide on how to control appliances with a remote control using a really clever implementation of a decade counter and IR receiver. The build itself is very simple – just a relay connected to mains power and a handful of resistors and transistors. The device is controlled …
Can IPS Appliances Remain Useful in a Virtual-machine World?
Intrusion-prevention system vendors have not found it easy to recast their appliances for use in the virtual-machine environment.
RSA: Hackers breached us, tried to steal crypto intellectual property
Hackers have successfully infiltrated security firm RSA to steal information related to its two-factor authentication products, the company’s president revealed in a letter Thursday to customers.
“Recently, our security systems identified an extremely…
Why Steve Jobs Won’t Return to Apple
“I’ve got a feeling that Steve Jobs isn’t going to return to Apple. I don’t have any inside information on the medical leave that he announced on Monday morning. Just consider my thoughts to be educated speculation based on watching the company for yea…
Managed appliances: security solutions that do more
Managed appliances: security solutions that do more Managed appliances: security solutions that do more The complexity of dealing with enterprise security continues to grow, placing increasingly heavy demands on the IT department. Vendors have attempted to meet the challenge with solutions that strive to let the IT administrator do more with constrained resources and less …
Spray turns windows into solar panels
Nowadays, people have been considering using solar panels as a means of acquiring energy needed to run their appliances at home. So many ways of replacing the traditional electricity we get from producers are coming now that the environment is slowly s…
