How to Hacking Your Garage Door with the Raspberry Pi Pico W
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Frank
- November 14, 2022
- Android
- apple watch
- Automation
- Beginner
- close
- Cloud
- connected
- door
- enforcer
- esp32
- esp8266
- esphome
- garage
- Getting Started
- Guide
- helpful
- home assistant
- homelab
- honeywell
- house
- Install
- internal
- internet of things
- IoT
- iphone
- Learning
- LED
- light
- micropython
- nag
- notification
- open
- phone
- pico
- pico w
- Privacy
- Programming
- push
- Raspberry Pi
- reminder
- seco-larm
- sensor
- Software
- testing
- Tutorial
- wife
- WiFi
- Wired
- wireless
- YAML
A high tech solution to not leaving the garage door open all day! Here’s the open source Raspberry Pi Pico W garage door sensor project, with instructions for how you can set up the same thing at your house: https://github.com/geerlingguy/pico-w-garage-door-sensor
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The Big Misconception About Electricity
Here’s a fascinating riddle of science: do electrons carry energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load or is something else at play?
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Real Holograms are Finally Here!
Silicon Valley start-up Light Field Lab has created a hologram so real that we may finally get the holograms promised in science fiction.
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The Super Bizarre Quantum Eraser Experiment
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Frank
- September 12, 2021
- 2021
- amazing
- bang
- big
- cosmic
- crazy physics
- deep
- doctor
- Don Lincoln
- double slit
- double slit experiment
- everything
- existence
- explained
- Fermilab
- how
- Ian Krass
- Learn
- light
- matter
- mystery
- particle
- photon
- Physicist
- Physics
- Quantum
- quantum eraser experiment
- quantum explanations
- Quantum Mechanics
- Research
- science
- scientific
- scientist
- Space
- star
- stars
- teach
- theory
- Time
- time travel
- truth
- Universe
- Wave
- wave particle duality
- Weird physics
- what
- why
- young double slit experiment
The quantum eraser experiment is one of the weirdest phenomena that has ever been observed and will melt your mind. It seems that quantum mechanics mixes past and future together. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don take you through this quantum conundrum.
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How Can Microphones Record Light?
The Action Lab shows us what light sounds like in a microphone by performing my very first recording of his voice being transferred to a microphone through light. This has interesting security implications for voice activated devices like Alexa and Google Home.
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Should You Build or Buy a 5V USB Portable Solar Power Charger?
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Frank
- August 3, 2020
- 4W
- 5V
- Amazon
- Beginner
- beginners
- boost
- buck
- buy
- cell
- charge
- charger
- circuit
- constant
- converter
- current
- DIY
- do
- electronic
- Electronics
- epoxy
- flux
- fold
- foldable
- garden
- Go
- greatscott
- Guide
- it
- light
- load
- make
- maximum
- measure
- mppt
- on
- open
- or
- output
- panel
- pen
- point
- portable
- Power
- project
- resin
- review
- short
- Solar
- solder
- sun
- tapping
- test
- tester
- the
- track
- tracking
- Tutorial
- usb
- voltage
- wire
- yourself
In this video, GreatScott! takes a closer look at a commercial 5V USB portable solar power charger. After measuring its output power and pretty much “short reviewing” the product, I will try to make my own DIY version that should cost around the same while outputting more power! Let’s get started!
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