O’Reilly details a $120 DYI smart doorbell

I love building little IoT devices, so this project is right up my alley. Requiring a rPi (or similar dev board), a bit of HW, and some elbow grease you too can build your own face-recognizing doorbell.   Recently, I set out to install a doorbell in my new house and thought: why doesn’t my doorbell tell me who is […]

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UCF researchers discover addressable single pixel full-color display tech

As we all know, current LCD technology creates colors by using mulitple single color sub-pixels to create the full gamut resolved through the pixel. This method would consolidate the heavy lifting into a single voltage controled pixel – reducing the required footprint per-pixel significantly. Gizmodo has a brief high-level writeup. A research team at the University of Central Florida has […]

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