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IoT Maker Raspberry Pi

How to Hacking Your Garage Door with the Raspberry Pi Pico W

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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IoT Maker

Little Known ESP32 Power Saving Modes

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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Science

Are Supercapacitors the better Batteries?

I have often wondered why use batteries and not supercapacitors. Supercapacitors are super like Superman or Superwoman. Otherwise, they only would be called “Capacitors.” Right? Where are they “super” and where not? Where can we use them, and how? And the most important question: Are they better than batteries?

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Interesting

How to Create Fillable PDF Form for Free

Kevin Stratvert provides this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to create a fillable PDF form for free using LibreOffice. LibreOffice is free and open source software that allows you to create forms and export as a PDF form. When you distribute your form, others can fill out your form easily. Once they complete your form, they […]

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Microsoft

How to use Microsoft PowerToys

In this step-by-step tutorial, Kevin Stratvert teaches us how to get and use Microsoft PowerToys. With Power Toys, use a color picker to get the HEX, RGB, etc. value for any color on your screen, snap windows using Fancy Zones, preview SVG and markdown files in File Explorer, resize images in bulk, rename files in […]

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Power Apps

How to Use the New Approvals App in Microsoft Teams

In this step-by-step tutorial by Kevin Stratvert, learn how to use the NEW Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. The Approvals app is available as a personal app for all Microsoft Teams users. The Approvals app provides a simple way to bring auditing, compliance, accountability, and workflows to both structured and unstructured Approvals in Teams. Learn […]

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