A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Abstract: This system presents the design and implementation of a password-based door lock system integrated with LED light control for enhanced security. The proposed system allows password entry ...

The Keypad library is designed for driving matrix style keypads (matrix decoder) when using the Arduino platform. It uses the standard method of selecting a column and scanning all the rows to see ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

While a basic Large Language Model (LLM) agent—one that repeatedly calls external tools—is easy to create, these agents often struggle with long and complex tasks because they lack the ability to plan ...

The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

ST. CLOUD — For library staff in central Minnesota’s Great River Regional Library system, recent moves from the Trump administration are calling into question the future of beloved library services.

Public libraries have always been busy spots, but they’ve grown even more so in the years since the pandemic. They’ve become not just spots for homework or book browsing but free co-working spaces, ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will begin to restrict Canadians’ access to a library that straddles the international border due to "a continued rise in illicit cross border activity." The ...

Managing libraries for Arduino boards has traditionally been a time-consuming and error-prone process. Developers often had to manually search for, download, and configure libraries, which could be ...