[15:40] schestowitz[15:40] schestowitzDone right, you can build a smart home that leaves your guests gobsmacked, talking for months about their experience and frantically searching for ways to recreate it in their own homes.
[15:40] schestowitzIn this article, well look at a few of the ways you can use the IoT to enhance your guests experiences and become the talk of the town (in a good way).
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[15:40] schestowitz[15:40] schestowitzMost of the mechanical components are 3D-printable and an Arduino MKR1000 WiFi board is the primary component. Moving the shift lever pushes a switch, which the Arduino registers. Almeida developed the sketch using PlatformIO. It sets the Arduino up as a standard USB HID that will work with any racing sim or game, because it sends key presses like any keyboard or gamepad. It doesnt receive f [15:40] schestowitz eedback from the PC, so it has to keep track of the current gear and let the user set the number of gears available using small buttons below the readout display.
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[15:51] schestowitz[15:51] schestowitzOn September 27, 1983, Richard M. Stallman announced the development of the GNU operating system and thereby initiated the global free software movement. Today, the GNU operating system is entirely composed of free software, i.e. it gives the user the freedom to use, study, modify, and share it. GNU, usually combined with the kernel Linux, enables millions of people everyday around the world -- [15:51] schestowitz including entire governments -- to operate their computers in freedom.
[15:51] schestowitzFSF executive director Zo Kooyman stresses that the FSF and the GNU Project's values of freedom, community, sharing, and learning are as important today as they were forty years ago. Kooyman says, "To use free software is to make an ethical choice asserting the right to learn and share what we learn with others. We are delighted to see that over the past forty years, the free software moveme [15:51] schestowitz nt has become a blueprint for a society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy."
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[16:11] schestowitz[16:11] schestowitzA Russian man who was sentenced to two years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces in April after anti-war drawings by his 13-year-old daughter drew attention to his online posts about the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine has been placed in punitive solitary confinement five times since August. [...]
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[16:13] schestowitz[16:13] schestowitz[...] The charge stems from the newspaper's coverage of the political situation in the country in 2020-2023. Belarusian rights watchdogs have designated Mantsevich as a political prisoner.
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