Collaborate Disseminate
If you need to add a small display to your project, you’re not going to do much better than a tiny OLED display. These tiny display are black and white, usually found in resolutions of 128×64 or some other divisible-by-two value, they’re driven over I2C, the libraries are readily available, …read more
Bon appétit, Dave. Google’s table-booking Duplex AI needs to pass the creepy test. Continue reading Booking a restaurant? Let Google’s Duplex AI make the call for you
The hottest new trend in photography is manipulating Depth of Field, or DOF. It’s how you get those wonderful portraits with the subject in focus and the background ever so artfully blurred out. In years past, it was achieved with intelligent use of lenses and settings on an SLR film camera, but now, it’s all in the software.
For the Pixel 2 smartphone, Google had used some tricky phase-detection autofocus (PDAF) tricks to compute depth data in images, and used this to decide which parts of images to blur. Distant areas would be blurred more, while the subject in the …read more
Continue reading Improving Depth Of Field With Only 5 Phones
Android’s December security bulletin arrived this week with another decent crop of vulnerabilities to add to the patching list for devices running version 7.0 Nougat to version 9.0 Pie, including Pixel users. Continue reading Patch now (if you can!): Latest Android update fixes clutch of RCE flaws
Google’s December Android Security Bulletin tackles 53 unique flaws. Continue reading Google Patches 11 Critical RCE Android Vulnerabilities
Google now makes $30 Type-C earbuds for its Pixel devices.
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The most dire vulnerability targets the Android framework and could allow an adversary to execute arbitrary code on targeted devices. Continue reading Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Android OS
Google is reportedly adding a new feature to its phone app that will breathe a sigh of relief to beleaguered phone users everywhere: Built-in screening for nuisance callers. Continue reading Your Google phone will soon screen nuisance calls
Vacuum tubes are awesome, and Nixies are even better. Numitrons are the new hotness, but there’s one type of tube out there that’s better than all the rest. It’s the ИГГ1-64/64M. This is a panel of tubes in a 64 by 64 grid, some with just green dots, some with green and orange, and even a red, green, blue 64 by 64 pixel matrix. They’re either phosphors or gas-filled tubes, but this is the king of all tube-based displays. Not even the RGB CRTs in a Jumbotron can match the absurdity of this tube array.
[Muth] got his hands on …read more
The quest to repurpose surplus parts into new and interesting displays never ends, it seems. And the bigger the display, the better, with extra points for using some really obscure part, like these surplus Russian vacuum-fluorescent tubes turned into a marquee display.
As [tonyp7] freely admits, this is a pet project that’s just for the fun of it, made possible by the flood of surplus parts on the market these days. The VFD tubes are IV-25s, Russian tubes that can be had by the fistful for a song from the usual sources. The seven small elements in the tube were …read more
Continue reading Marquee Display Uses Six Dozen Surplus VFD Tubes to Great Effect