How To Get Live Satellite Images Directly From Space
This video is from saveitforparts. By popular request, here’s my attempt at a “simple” how-to starter guide for weather satellite decoding. This was surprisingly difficult to put together, taking me several days and multiple attempts to get it right. It also ended up being over 20 minutes long! According to my recent polls, you the […]
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Replace Your Actor with a CG Character in One Click
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Frank
- May 14, 2023
- A.I.
- Adobe
- ae
- after effects
- AI
- Behind the Scenes
- cg
- cgi
- cinematography
- DIY
- effect
- Film
- Film Riot
- film school
- filmmaker
- filmmakers
- filmmaking
- how to
- josh connolly
- midjourney
- Movies
- ryan connolly
- sfx
- short film
- triune films
- tut
- Tutorial
- VFX
- vfx editing
- visual effects
- wonder dynamics
- wonder studio
This video is from the one and only Film Riot. Can you replace your actor with a CG character with just one click? Wonder Studio from Wonder Dynamics aims to make that a reality. But how good is it?
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Build A Raspberry Pi NAS For $35 Using All New Parts
In this video, Michael Klements builds a Raspberry Pi based NAS using all new parts for only $35. This is obviously not going to be fast or have a significant amount of storage, but it’ll be great for a first-time NAS build to learn how they work and how to set them up.
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A Smaller & Faster Arduino?
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Frank
- November 14, 2022
- animation
- Arduino
- arduino display
- arduino ui
- car cluster
- cluster design
- custom car cluster
- custom display
- dashboard
- digital car cluster
- digital dashboard
- digital gauge
- DIY
- esp32
- gauge
- gauges
- gui
- microbit
- microbit makecode
- oled lcd
- pixel
- Raspberry Pi
- round display
- Tutorial
- ui
- ui design
Learn how to create a simple project showing the charging particle animation on the OLED screen using the Arduino-compatible board Seeed XIAO. The XIAO board is smaller and faster than Arduino. The expansion board includes a lot of additional sensors as well as an SSD1306 128x64px OLED display with an IIC interface.
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A DIY 65816 Computer
This guy built his own SBC with a 65816 processor at it’s core. This week, I decided to do a little show-and-tell on the 65816-based ‘single’ board computer that I’ve been working on on and off for the last three or so years.
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The OG Computer: How to Make Your Own Abacus
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Frank
- June 10, 2022
- abacus
- Ada Lovelace
- alan turing
- arithmetic
- brow tidy ox
- build your own computer
- calculator
- Computer
- Computer Science
- Computerphile
- DIY
- diy abacus
- diy computer
- Education
- Educational
- eniac
- first computer
- Fun
- History
- history of computers
- homemade abacus
- how to make a calculator
- how to make everything
- HTME
- Innovator
- Invention
- Learn
- make your own abacus
- Maker
- Math
- Mathematics
- original
- PC
- school
- science
- smart
- teach
- Technology
- Turing machine
- who invented the computer
Think that the first computer was created during WW2? The 1800s with Babbage’s mechanical computer? Nope. the Ancient Egyptians had the OG: an abacus.
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Making Commodore 64 Software In 1983
The Commodore 64 is where I learned to code. In this archival video, learn how software development has changed (and hasn’t) in the past 40 years. From my archives – this excerpt from my 16mm print of the 1983 film “Making It Young” about young Canadians who are making their own way in the world. […]
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Build your own portable POWER STATION (1200w, USB-C and MORE!)
In this video learn how to build a SUPER POWERFUL battery station.
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Little Known ESP32 Power Saving Modes
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Frank
- December 8, 2021
- Arduino
- arduino project
- beginners
- clock reduction
- deep sleep
- DIY
- do-it-yourself
- eevblog
- Electronics
- esp32
- esp32 datasheet
- esp32 project
- esp32 tutorial
- esp32 weather station
- esp8266
- esp8266 datasheet
- esp8266 project
- greatscott
- Guide
- hack
- hobby
- how to
- IoT
- light sleep
- LoRaWAN
- nodemcu
- project
- simple
- smart home
- supercapacitors
- ttgo
- wemos
- WiFi
Another great video about the ESP32 and its power saving modes. I need to dust off my soldering iron. We all know that we send our ESP32s to deep sleep to save energy. But do you know the other possibilities to save energy like light sleep and clock reduction? And what about modem sleep or […]
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