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RaspberryPi 4 Model B 2GB SBC Gets a Permanent Price Cut to $35, Effectively Retiring the 1GB

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Dropping from $45 to $35, the 2GB model is now the logical entry-point into the Raspberry Pi 4 family.

Falling memory prices have brought an early birthday treat for fans of the Raspberry Pi family of single-board computers: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2GB variant has now dropped to $35, the original price of the 1GB.

At launch the Raspberry Pi 4 family was available in three varieties, differentiated only by the capacity of the on-board LPDDR4 RAM: an entry-level 1GB, a mid-range 2GB, and a top-end 4GB. While it’s been available for less than a year, though, falling memory prices have resulted in a rethink that has seen the 2GB model’s price slashed to match that of the 1GB — making it the new entry point into the family.

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An Arduino based #coronavirus detector based on infrared temperature sensor.

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This detector has the following functions:

Digital infrared temperature sensor above the mask can detect the body temperature in real time and show the temperature to others.

The detector on the other side is used to detect the temperature of the person I have contacted.

If the other person’s temperature is normal, the RGB LED ring in the left eye part is green.

If the other person ’s temperature exceeds 38 degrees Celsius, the RGB LED ring is red and accompanied by an alert, indicating that he is a potential carrier, so I will advise him to go to the hospital for treatment.

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**crackedconsole does not endorse this nor can we assure this will protect you from infection.

Intro to Analog to Digital Converters

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Like digital to analog converters or DACs, the analog to digital converter or ADC is everywhere.

A while back, I published an article on DACs titled Digital to Analog Converters – An Introductory Tutorial. I strongly advise you check it out before reading this article if you haven’t already.

There are a few reasons for this. First, some analog to digital converters use DACs as part of their makeup. Second, a lot of the specs that apply to DACs also apply to analog to digital converters. Finally, ADCs are more complicated, but a good understanding of DACs can help you better understand how ADCs work.

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The Rise and Fall of LimeWire

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Released in the year 2000, LimeWire followed the foundation laid by Napster and began what I consider to be the golden age of online piracy. Millions would use the software to get the songs and movies they wanted completely free. However something like this could only last for so long…Today we talk about the Rise and Fall of LimeWire.

Properly Configuring a Camera in OctoPrint

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Most people that I talk to in the various 3D Printing communities I am a part of simply plug in a Raspberry Pi Camera or USB Webcam and run with it. People do this without even considering that settings could be tweaked to make the video captured by these cameras better.

When I started looking into just what could be done to optimize cameras in OctoPrint I found that much of the information available was either outdated or a raw data dump that was not easy to read (or act upon) for most users. With updates to OctoPrint, a lot of information has changed and most of the information on this subject has not evolved. Because of this, I thought I would try my best to summarize what I had found and updated to the latest version of OctoPrint in an effort to perhaps save some of you some time.

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Official RaspberryPi 4 7″ Touchscreen Display Review – Is it Any Good?

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Is the Official Raspberry Pi 7 inch Touch screen worth buying in 2020 for the Raspberry Pi 4? Let’s Find out. In this video, we take a look and test out the Official Raspberry Pi 7” DSI touchscreen paired with the Raspberry Pi 4 It works with no drivers in Raspbian and RetroPie and has a resolution of 800×480 but is it worth buying?

The Creator of the Konami Code, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has passed away.

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The Konami code is easily the most memorable cheat code in gaming, spreading its wings outside of the gaming world to appear in song lyrics, movies and television shows. To this day, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start, is an Easter egg you can still find in AAA games, and has appeared in the likes of the Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid series, to name a few.

The Konami code is the brainchild of Kazuhisa Hashimoto – the developer of the Famicom port of Gradius. It’s now being reported that Hashimoto has sadly passed away.

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Eastern Iowa man wins 20 million points, world record playing Japanese arcade game in his kitchen

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Not many people have a full-size Galaga arcade game in their kitchen but Jordan Dorrington at Cedar Rapids does.

“My wife decided that she would never see me again if it is in the basement so we had to put it right here in the kitchen so she could sit on the couch and watch TV while I try to break a record,” he said.

Galaga is a Japanese arcade game released 1981 and let’s just say Dorrington is addicted to it.

Jordan recently broke the Galaga world record with 20,980,450.

And yes he did it in his kitchen. To break the world you have an incredible amount of skill, patience, and endurance.

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