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Samsung aims high in 2010

Samsung sold 2.6 million LED LCD TVs in 2009, expects 10 million in 2010 With a reported sales figure of 2.6 million LED LCD TV in 2009, Samsung has high expectations for its LED LCD TV sales this coming year. Samsung expects a whopping 10 million LED LCD TV sales in 2010. Having said that, [...]

Twittering Laser Tripwire with Webcam Capture

This instructable will show you how to construct a laser tripwire that can twitter and grab an image from a webcam, as well as execute any command you can put in a bash script. This instructable is actually quite simple and is even suitable as a beginner arduino project. Source: action_owl

Reconing an Eminence JAY7010 Subwoofer Driver

Earlier this year I bought some PA speakers at auction. The auction company was cagey enough to list them all as “untested / condition unknown,” but I suspect they had a pretty good idea of the condition.I ended up with a Yamaha SW1181VS 18? 500W subwoofer, a Yamaha Yamaha CW218V dual 18? 1220W subwoofer, and [...]

SEGGER releases production flash programmer for STM8 Microcontrollers

SEGGER Microcontroller today announced a new member of its Flasher family, the Flasher STM8. The easy to use stand alone flash programmer supports the complete family of STM8 Microcontrollers from ST. With USB, Ethernet, and RS232 interfaces, the Flasher STM8 can be easily integrated into a production environment. Additionally, the programmer can be used stand-alone, [...]

Capacitor Leakage Meter with PIC16F88

This instrument can perform a leakage current test on almost any type of capacitor in current use, including ceramic, mica, monolithic, metallised polyester or paper, polystyrene, solid tantalum and aluminium electrolytics. There are seven different standard test voltages from 10V to 100V, so most capacitors can be checked at or close to their rated voltage. [...]

Panasonic’s new home battery could store a week’s-worth of electricity

Panasonic announces battery that can store enough energy to power a house for a week. This could be interesting. “We’ll be the first to bring to the market a storage battery for home use, which can store sufficient electricity for about one week of use,” said Fumio Otsubo, president of Panasonic, in a recent interview [...]

Happy New Year Everyone

I just wanted to wish a happy new year to all our readers, and I am sure 2010 will be an awesome year for everyone.