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Camera modules for the Raspberry Pi became available shortly after its release in the early ’10s. Since then there has been about a decade of projects eschewing traditional USB webcams …read more Continue reading Multi-Year Doorbell Project
Cardo has introduced a set of over-ear headphones compatible with its Packtalk Edge Bluetooth comms system, enabling coach-to-motorcyclist intercoms, as well as wireless mesh-network group chats between up to 15 people riding off-road ATVs.Continue Rea… Continue reading Cardo Packtalk Edgephones bring Bluetooth mesh comms out of the helmet
[Zak]’s two-floor apartment has a typical door entry control system, but the setup is less than ideally convenient. The wall-mounted telephone-like intercom is downstairs, but [Zak] is usually upstairs. What’s …read more Continue reading Fixing (And Improving!) an Annoying Apartment Entry System
Cardo has overhauled its flagship dynamic-mesh intercom for motorcyclists. The new Packtalk Edge gets a magnetic “air mount,” a slimmer design with no pop-up antenna, upgraded Bluetooth 5.2, improved JBL sound, USB-C and wireless updates.Continue Readi… Continue reading Cardo announces a new flagship motorcycle intercom, the Packtalk Edge
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a pop culture classic, and remains one of the standout teen films of the era. Notably, titular character Ferris was somewhat of a hacker himself, …read more Continue reading Recreating the Intercom from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Cardo, as we told you when we first previewed this device, had the first motorcycle Bluetooth headset back in 2004, and the first rider-to-rider intercom in 2007. Packtalk was another first; a self-healing mesh network that allowed more than a dozen ri… Continue reading Review: Cardo’s Packtalk Black motorcycle headset rocks XL speakers
Today Intercom announced that it has hired a chief financial officer (CFO) as it ramps towards an IPO. The unicorn also promoted its COO to the CEO role earlier this year. The company’s recent CEO, Karen Peacock, told TechCrunch that her new CFO Dan Griggs was a strong candidate thanks to his experience helping take […] Continue reading Intercom hires a CFO as it ramps towards an IPO
Texan company Cardo has been building Bluetooth headsets for motorcyclists ever since it pioneered the idea way back in 2004. Cardo had the first integrated FM radio in 2005, the first rider-to-rider intercom in 2007, the first mile-plus intercom in 20… Continue reading Cardo brings back the bass with new Packtalk Black motorcycle headset
Three years ago almost to the day, Intercom announced that it was bringing former Intuit exec Karen Peacock on board as COO. Today, she got promoted to CEO, effective July 1st. Current CEO and company co-founder Eoghan McCabe will become Chairman. As it turns out, these moves aren’t a coincidence. McCabe had been actively thinking […] Continue reading Intercom announces the promotion of Karen Peacock to CEO
On Star Trek, all Kirk and friends had to do was snap the button on the always conveniently located intercom panel, start talking, and the intended recipient would immediately respond no matter where they were in the ship. How did it work? Who knows. In spite of, or perhaps …read more
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