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QR-Codes und NFC-Tags fürs Blasorchester: Sticker für den Konzerttisch
Anleitung für Orchester: QR-Code-Sticker mit NFC-Tags für den Konzerttisch selbst gemacht – Foto-Druck, Kurz-URLs, NFC Tools und Kosten ab 31 Cent.
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All new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango APIs
Hi folks, In this article I’d like to present all the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango APIs. The goal is to inform developers who aren’t familiar with Mango of what new APIs are available. Since there are “1,500” new APIs we won’t be able to deep-dive into APIs with code samples. We’ll examine the new…
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PID on a Microcontroller: Making Timing Visible in a 3D Game
A follow-on to PID Flight School. The drone's roll loop runs on a simulated Cortex-M under Zephyr, so students can see what loop rate, fixed-point maths, sensor resolution and thread priorities do to a controller.
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Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly…
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Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
From The Public Domain Review
Three Years of Uptime on Laptop
Nothing lasts forever esterday I rebooted the laptop “bubi” for the first time since December 2023. It was up and running nonstop for nearly 3 years. When reboots are as rare as this you kind of worry the reboot sequence might not complete due to file system repair needs. GNU/Linux is thankfully…
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My iPhone Duo Preorder and the Best Buy Launch-Day Shit Show
I left my AT&T preorder for Best Buy's launch-day pickup promise. A store confirmation, two phones, a delayed order, and a cancellation warning later, here we are.
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Global Smartphone Shipments Down 20% in 3Q26, regressing to 2013 level
Samsung and Apple capture 50% Global smartphone shipments fell 20% year-on-year (YoY) to 254.7 million units in 3Q26, according to Omdia, marking the lowest third-quarter shipment volume since 2013. Rising smartphone prices continued to weigh on consumer demand, particularly in emerging markets.…
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