Collaborate Disseminate
Social media can connect us to a vibrant worldwide community, but it is also a huge time sink as it preys on both our need for attention and our insatiable curiosity. Kept on a leash by those constant notification sounds, we can easily look up from our phones to find …read more
Finally, a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table.
The system that [Edje Electronics] has built, dubbed “Rain Man 2.0” in homage to the classic title character created by …read more
Continue reading Let The Cards Fall Where They May, With A Robotic Rain Main
The Rubik’s Cube was a smash hit when it came out in 1974, and continues to maintain a following to this day. It can be difficult to solve, but many take up the challenge. The Arduino Rubik’s Solver is a robot that uses electronics and maths to get the job …read more
Why motion sensors in the bedrooms, she wondered? Why the extra light and weird wiring on the router? Continue reading Airbnb Superhost’s creepy spycam sniffed out by sleuthing infosec pro
Skype is a popular software used by millions of people to connect with loved ones anytime,…
For more visit TheWindowsClub.com.
If you are unable to use Skype on your Windows PC and you see an error message Your Webcam is being…
For more visit TheWindowsClub.com.
Continue reading Skype – Your webcam is being used by another application
[Mark West] gave an interesting presentation at last year’s GOTO Copenhagen conference. He shows how he took a simple Raspberry Pi Zero webcam and expanded it with AI. He actually added the intelligent features in two different ways: on in the Amazon cloud and another using the Intel Modvidius NCS …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Camera with Smarts — Cloud or Local?
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for February 18th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Preventing illegal robocalls, should you be scared of your laptop’s webcam, and recent hacks of popular dating apps. Silent … Continue reading Preventing Illegal Robocalls, Webcam Spying, Dating App Account Hacking – WB56
If IKEA made ball-balancing PID robots, they’d probably look like this one.
This [Johan Link] build isn’t just about style. A look under the hood reveals not the standard, off-the-shelf microcontroller development board you might expect. Instead, [Johan] designed and built his own board with an ATmega32 to run the three servos that control the platform. The entire apparatus is made from a dozen or so 3D-printed parts that interlock to form the base, the platform, and the housing for the USB webcam that’s perched on an aluminum tube. From that vantage point, the camera’s images are analyzed with OpenCV …read more
Looking for a cheap way to keep an eye on something? [Kevin Hester] pointed us to a way to make a WiFi webcam for under $10. This uses one of the many cheap ESP32 dev boards available, along with the Internet of Things platform PlatformIO and a bit of code that creates an RTSP server. This can be accessed by any software that supports this streaming protocol, and a bit of smart routing could put it on the interwebs. [Kevin] claims that the ESP32 camera dev boards he uses can be found for less than $10, but we found that …read more