Commercial smart alarm clocks run $50 to $150 for a device that does exactly what the manufacturer decided it should do. You can't expand it or change it, and what you bought is what you get. Mine, on ...

Clock Matrix with Raspberry Pi Zero and 4x1 Dot matrix (MAX7219) I wanted to use some hardware I had lying around to build a simple clock that I could keep in my room with a webcam I could position to ...

Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered are the Cistercian numerals, ...

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...

Gaming PCs One Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool' Gaming Keyboards As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic ...

Abstract: In time-sensitive networking (TSN), precise clock synchronization is an important guarantee for the normal operation of the network. The collection of timestamps plays a crucial role in ...

This project uses an WEMOS D1 Mini ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to connect to a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server to automatically retrieve and display the local time on a inexpensive analog ...

Abstract: Energy efficiency is a persistent issue in FPGA-based matrix processing, especially as embedded systems face increased computing needs. To get around this, we propose a MAC unit design that ...