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ESP8266 to RGB LED Adapters, Making Your Life Easier.

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We are opening up orders for our ESP8266 to RGB LED adapters, supporting all variants of 3 wire RGB LEDs, including WS2811, WS2812, WS2812B and more!
Each adapter includes an AMS1117 3.3v regulator, and will work with 12v or 5v LEDs. You can choose from 2 versions, with or without a 8 pin pin header , depending on your project needs.
These do not include the ESP module, and are designed for the ESP8266 (ESP01) chip.

Check out our web store for each version:
ESP Adapter with Pin Header
ESP Adapter NO Pin Header

Power is connected to either the top of the AMS1117 voltage regulator, or the solder pads below. This is then split and goes into the voltage regulator as well as straight to the LEDs.
Thus if your input voltage is 5v, you will need to run 5v LEDs, if your input voltage is 12v you will need to run 12v LEDs.
The AMS1117 regulator drops the voltage down to 3.3v for the ESP module itself.

VMware, Nvidia partner to make AI chips easier for businesses to use

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VMware Inc and Nvidia Corp on Tuesday announced an effort to make VMware’s software for managing data centers work better with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

VMware makes software that helps businesses get more work out of data center servers by slicing physical machines into “virtual” ones so that more applications can be packed onto each physical machine. Its tools are commonly used by large businesses that operate their own data centers as well as businesses that use cloud computing data centers.

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BTT Smart filament sensor guide – Detect filament runout and jams

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Filament runout protection only protects against the filament running out.. There are other situations that create jams and clogs tha will also cause a 3D print to fail. The Bigtreetech smart filament sensor is capable of detecting these problems and saving your prints.

This video is a guide on how to set the sensor up to work flawlessly with Marlin and the factory LCD controller. It also covers how it should work with Octoprint and the BTT TFT touch screens once updates are available.

World’s First Petabyte Hard Disk Drive Contains Glass for Better Storage Capacity

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Glass is the future of data storage, as proven by Microsoft in 2016 when they showed the world how could the DNA strands be used to store data. It serves as the biological counterpart to the traditional flash- or disk-based storage.

But as Microsoft has tested, they found that glass storage is more practical. Somewhat like the traditional DVD recording media, they also used infrared layers to distort the glass but placed it inside the glass and away from the open air. According to Microsoft, the data recorded is read by lasers and decoded by the machine learning as light reflects off the glass.

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$16 Single Board Computer Kit – The #Iconikal Rockchip SBC Recon Sentinel. Is It Worth Buying?

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In this video we take a look at a really inexpensive Single Board Computer kit like the raspberry pi known as the Recon Sentinal Or Iconikal Rockchip RK3328 4K 60P Single Board Computer, This is actually an in-home Internet security kit but it’s powered by the Pine64 Rock64 SBC and nothing is stopping us from using as such, With a quad-core RK3328 and back by 1GB of LPDDR3 Ram It supports Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro android RecalBox, and many more Distros. So it worth buying? Let’s find out