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Homebrew GPS gets ±1 meter resolution with a Raspberry Pi
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Hack a Day We’ve been following the work of [Andrew Holme] and his homebrew GPS receiver for a while now. A few years ago, [Andrew] built a four-channel GPS receiver from scratch, but apparently that wasn’t enough for him. He expanded his build last year to track up to eight satellites, and this month added a Raspberry Pi for a 12-channel, battery-powered homebrew GPS receiver that has an accuracy of about 3 feet. The Raspi is attached to an FPGA board that handles the local oscillator, real-time events, and tracks satellites automatically. The Pi handles the difficult but not time-critical math through an SPI interface. Because the Pi is attached to the FPGA through an SPI interface, it can also load up the FPGA with even more custom code, potentially turning this 12-channel receiver into a 16- or 18-channel one. An LCD display attached to the FPGA board shows the current latitude, longitude, and other miscellaneous data like the number of satellites received. With a large Li-ion bat

Tuesday Tales – Small Town Picture Prompt
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Inside This Writer's Mind It’s time for another Tuesday Tales! Today we are working with a picture prompt. I’m veering away from The Thirteenth Knight this week. Today we are catching back up with Max and Chloe in Breaking the Cycle. And don’t forget to check out the excerpts from my extremely talented fellow authors on the Tuesday Tales website! “Thank you for coming with me to my nephew’s birthday party, Chloe.” Max slipped the car keys into his pocket as he gave her the sweetest, largest smile she ever saw. “I can’t wait to introduce you to my family.” Chloe trotted beside him as they walked along the sidewalk. “It’s only fair. You’ve met my mom.” He laughed. “Chloe, sweetheart. I live with you and your mom.” She giggled in response. As they strolled along the sidewalk she glanced around at downtown New Ulm. It was a far cry from Minneapolis. There were department stores most people in metropolitan areas hadn’t seen since the late 1970’s. There were small town gift shops full of quilting su

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VisionTek Radeon HD4350 – Bad Fan on Heat Sink
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Issue: An annoying and somewhat loud noise emanates from within the computer.  It’s pretty maddening to deal with unless you have the uncanny ability to block out such a disturbance. Cause: The fan on the default heat sink of this model is poorly constructed.  VisionTek claims that dust buildup causes this, but I’ve seen a few units do this within a month and there really isn’t much buildup on it at all. Solution: If you are within the 3-5 year warranty (depends on the device), get a hold of VisionTek Support (http://www.visiontek.com/support/customer-support/warranty-request.html or 1.866.883.5411) and request a replacement. Recommendations: Depending on your situation, you may not need a fan on the heat sink.  We use these cards simply for dual monitors and nothing else; note that our office users are not graphic-intensive users.  Because I’m tired of dealing with their sub-par fans, I request silent heat sinks to avoid this problem in the future. Unfortunately, VisionTek mixes their

Broken Screen LCD Repair- A challenging opportunity
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Now a days as fashion has upgraded its position into a excessive rate and it has become quite expensive to buy a new LCD screen. So now the option remains instead of replace a broken screen LCD repair. The monitors of LCD screen are ever lasting along with life span. Now question arises that if the main monitor is totally destroyed it is better to replace but in other circumstances broken screen LCD repair can be done. The terminals and monitors can be repaired with a help of repairing system it makes one suits the budget. These monitors are very heavy so Eco friendly repair method should be adopted for getting effective results. They give long-term and beneficiary things which in turn can help you in future as well. And, most importantly repairing of gadget costs less than the purchase of a new electronic component from the market. Always try to opt for experts who know about computer & LCDs and how to repair them in best possible way. It can give your decide better performance. T

The Xbox One
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The Xbox One isn’t for gamers? Here’s my view.
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I want to edit the .NET Gadgeteer drivers for a particular module!
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Using up the ink at the end of a printing session.
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HP meluncurkan laptop dengan banyak sentuhan
<SCI>config ~ Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
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Obtaining The Finest Printer Has Many Advantages
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The printer is a device that will produce the paper version of computerized documents. More often than not connected by means of networked or local connectors in offices and homes. There are many models available aimed at performing specific printing jobs, data can be relayed by means of a memory stick or digital camera for photos. Regardless of format the document required needs to be printed, all use a similar process. Software installed onto a computer enables it to communicate with the printer using USB or wireless connections. Without these drivers being installed the machine will not function correctly as information with regards to any errors is detected by these programs. Data sent is first stored in “buffers” and on completion of data being received; the machine will start up and proceed to print the documents. The main types purchased by consumers are the laser printer or inkjet. The first predominantly uses a type of static energy in order to activate laser beams

Microsoft Windows 8 commercial takes aim at the iPad
Jewished Tech

See on Scoop.it – Educational Technology for the Jewish School Microsoft’s recent advertising moves have featured a number of critiques aimed at the competition, but the company has mostly avoided slamming the popular iPad, until now. Matt Polaniecki‘s insight: brilliant! cant wait for windows 8.1 to really lay down some biz! See on www.dvice.com

Today’s featured door:Decorative Glass – FG-2 small wave
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Artistic, one of a kind, decorative glass handmade by fine artisans. Inspired by fine, contemporary architecture in the United States and abroad, our decorative glass doors are perfect for the modern home in both interior and exterior applications. LA-Door 855 (452-3667) or stop by 11141 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA

APC40 Script for Two Instances of Gross Beat for FL Studio 11
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The ability to custom script a APC40 setting for both instances of Gross Beat on a single display in FL Studio makes it a really useful DJ tool for use in the DJ Performance Template.  Basically, I’m setting up the Gross Beat instances to correspond to two mixer channels that represent the dedicated channels for the full length tracks of a DJ Set.   However, this script can be used for more than that (really any set up where you want to use 2 instances of  Gross Beat’s first 16 time slots and first 4 volume slots). Download the script – remember to rename the file to Page#.scr (e.g., Page12.scr) in order to have FL Studio 11 recognize it.

Cheap Discount 90182 Picnic Table Kit Sand Shop
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2X4basics 90182 Picnic Table Kit, Sand [Frames Only] Check the price of 2X4basics 90182 Picnic Table Kit, Sand [Frames Only] today. We’re so confident you’ll find the best price, discount prices. This site is where to buy online for 2X4basics 90182 Picnic Table Kit, Sand [Frames Only] cheap price or special promotion discount. Read Carefully additional information detail for 2X4basics 90182 Picnic Table Kit, Sand [Frames Only] and check prices before you buy. >> Click For See Product Details & Image << Description of 2X4basics 90182 Picnic Table Kit, Sand [Frames Only] 90182 Picnic Table Kit Sand | Product Features Just add 2×4-Feet lumber to make a sturdy picnic table and 2 benches up to 8 feet long Included in the Picnic Table Kit are the frames to make the table and 2 benches Simple assembly is required with only a powered screwdriver, wrench and a saw. Only straight 90 degree cuts are required, no miters or angles Stain, paint, or finish the wood to

LATEST TECHNOLOGY GUITAR WITHOUT STRINGS
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            Music has been a vital part of most people in this world. Recognized or not, his presence has brought a change in lifestyle. The music industry was transformed into a very lucrative place for the creative industries in the field of music. In a band, the presence of the following personnel aspects in it becomes very important and must be considered, both in terms of non-physical (cohesiveness, commitment and loyalty) as well as in physical form (appearance and music devices). Regarding the latter point, a guitarist as part of the band members are required to always look for inspiration to use a tool that is typical of his guitar, be it of the type of acoustic and electric (electric guitar) to subsequently poured into a song. At present, the development of technology has penetrated into all areas of the guitar is no exception in the following equipment. A variety of well-known brands such as Fender, Ibanez, ESP, Gibson, Jackson etc. abuzz market their products. Today, digital

Concurrency vs. Parallelism
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I have watched countless demos of how parallelism can be added to your code by changing a small portion of it or by adding an attribute that magically divides the processing time by the number of cores in your CPU. Usually the demos are prime numbers calculators or even worse sleep statements. These do scale linearly with the number of cores in your machine but they are not doing anything useful or realistic. The reality of most compute intensive systems is the abundance of shared state. Most CPU bound code operates on one or more big arrays that are allocated at the start of the application and, hopefully, deleted at the end. This assumes that we are not talking about functional languages, I should add. After all scientific computation is traditionally done in Fortran which is a very procedural language followed by C and C++ that lend themselves very well to for loops. When you parallelize a piece of code that uses shared state you get variations of a problem called False Sharing wher

Xbox One – What’s in a Name?
The Ancient Gaming Noob

Also today, I went to GameStop. Me: "How do you guys feel about the Xbox One?" Store clerk: "We don't sell those anymore."— Scott Nichols (@Duckols) May 23, 2013 When it comes to the recently announced Xbox One, I am not the target audience, having no desire to get another gaming console.  That is all going to pass me by.  Gaming middle age and such. But I have to admit, when it comes to naming,  I’m with that clerk.  Shouldn’t “one” be the first in line?  Isn’t that what we could reasonably call the original Xbox? I get the all-in-one entertainment center symbolism and such, having paid at least a little attention to the announcement.  But still, you know some parent somewhere is going to disappoint their child by coming home with an original Xbox they got off Craig’s List for “really cheap.” Sony will never has this problem with the PlayStation 4.

Miscellany
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Too busy this year to add much. Off the cuff notables include: Use Fn keys to redirect, connect external monitor, or remove battery and restart a Win 7 laptop that is sending its video to the external display that is either not there or turned off Some Windows 7 updates will fail and roll back unless one or more updates are installed individually (two of these are KB954430 and KB 973688, and there is at least one more) (saw this on several new Lenovo computers) The secret code for resetting lamp hours on SMART Projectors (Press DOWN, UP, UP, LEFT, UP  on the remote control to access the service menu) To correctly clear the bad cluster list and rescan an imaged volume, be sure to run chkdsk /b (implies /r and /f) Going into safe mode can sometimes get out of the cycle of a “frozen” computer that keeps restarting after failing windows 7 updates (using DeepFreeze) Well, back at it.  I will add more when I get a chance.