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Price reduction for SeeedStudio Fusion PCB
SeeedStudio has just announced an important price reduction for its PCB prototyping service, Fusion PCB: You’ve no more excuses to try and design your own PCBs, perhaps following my guide about how to export the needed Gerber files
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Arduino Web Editor
A couple of days ago, Arduino announced the global availability (before you hade to be invited) of Arduino Web Editor, the web-based development environment for Arduino boards. Arduino Web Editor is a component of Arduino Create,
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Raspberry Pi 3
Exactly 4 years after the announce of the first Raspberry, today the Raspberry foundation unleashed the new Raspberry Pi 3: Its main features are: The new Raspberry is already available from the official resellers, priced $
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Microchip acquires Atmel
With an official press release, yesterday Microchip announced that has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atmel. The overall value of the operation is 3.56 billion dollars. It’s for sure a news that will impact all the
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Arduino IDE: the new Library Manager
If you updated the Arduino IDE to the latest version (1.6.3), you may have noticed a great improvement: a new tool for library management. In past indeed there was no a single place where you
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Packt eBook Bonanza Campaign
I’m happy to share the new Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza: from December 18th, customers will be able to get any Packt eBook or Video for just $5. This promotion covers every title and customers
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XenApp, my new book!
With the new 7.x version of XenApp, Citrix made many changes to its infrastructure and to the way it works; hence Packt Publishing, that is the editor of my first book about XenApp, asked me for a new,
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FTDI drivers and counterfeit chips: warning!
FTDI are widely used in electronic devices, in particular for USB-serial adapters. In the past some blogs reported that on the market there were many counterfeit chips, that are chips labeled as FTDI but manufactured by other companies. A deep
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Updated Linux image for the Arduino Yun
The guys at Arduino have just released an updated image for the Linux distribution running on the Arduino Yun. The image is available in the software page on the Arduino’s official website: To perform the update,
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App Inventor v2
The M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has recently published the version 2 of App Inventor, a tool to develop Android apps. Its official website is http://appinventor.mit.edu/ App Inventor makes easy to develop – with graphical tools
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