Meshtastic has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, as the off-grid, long-range radio text messaging protocol gains a ton of new users. It’s been used to create mesh networks in ...

Physical AI is not merely a product feature. It is an architectural shift. When intelligence lives next to the phenomenon it observes, we gain what the cloud alone cannot consistently provide: low ...

No VPN or exposing ports necessary.

Arduino is a microcontroller designed for real-time hardware control with very low power use. Raspberry Pi is a full computer that runs operating systems and handles complex tasks. Arduino excels at ...

"Humans are a social species. We are highly dependent on others from birth," said Elizabeth Necka, an expert on social and behavioral science at the National Institutes of Health. "So feeling socially ...

One of the worst aspects of travel is about to get a whole lot better Making a connecting flight is always a little fraught. There’s nothing worse than racing against the constantly ticking clock of a ...

It’s widely recognized that the crises of loneliness, disconnection, and social fragmentation are touching nearly every aspect of our lives, from personal well-being to public health to democracy ...

In 1991, Ellen Smith, a 26-year-old single mother, had no plans to search for romance on national television. She was simply tagging along to keep a friend company at an audition for a wildly popular ...

Electrical power systems engineers need practical methods for predicting solar output power under varying environmental conditions of a single panel. By integrating an Arduino-based real-time data ...

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