I Made It

A tumblr about the Internet of Things, hardware, DIY, manufacturing and using mobile to control it.

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"Apple, Google, and Amazon create “CHIP,” a new smart home standard"

One day later, Google and Apple have publicly shared more details about what's happening.

A protocol layer over IPv6, over Wifi / Zigbee / BLE4 / Thread. Everyone is throwing in some tech, so interesting.

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“Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back“ - 3:30m video, very funny

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"Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35"

We have a surprise for you today: Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale, starting at $35.

64 bit architecture.

A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance)

1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM

Full-throughput Gigabit Ethernet

Dual-band 802.11ac wireless networking

Bluetooth 5.0

Two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports

Dual monitor support, at resolutions up to 4K

VideoCore VI graphics, supporting OpenGL ES 3.x

4Kp60 hardware decode of HEVC video

Complete compatibility with earlier Raspberry Pi products

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"Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does"

If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container

Interesting article on Facebook and Google data centres.

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"Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff"

Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation which was then c…

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"EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database"

EU Parliament green-lights the creation of the Common Identity Repository (CIR), a gigantic biometrics database.

The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens.

This new database will be known as the Common Identity Repository (CIR) and is set to unify records on over 350 million people.

Per its design, CIR will aggregate both identity records (names, dates of birth, passport numbers, and other identification details) and biometrics (fingerprints and facial scans), and make its data available to all border and law enforcement authorities.

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"Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019"

The Nest ecosystem is dead. Nest accounts are dead. Nest's privacy firewall is dead.

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"The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes"

You really didn’t think you were allowed to participate, did you?

Google's integration of the Nest brand may have some downsides for smart home enthusiasts. The company has revealed that it's phasing out its Works With Nest program in the summer in favor of a Works With Google Assistant framework. The new program will allow data sharing between connected devices and apps, but only for a handful of tightly screened partners

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"Gartner Survey: 90% of blockchain-based supply chain projects are in trouble"

The lack of well-identified use cases is causing “blockchain fatigue” to set in; caution urged for early adopters

Fake news: 100% of them are. (Slashdot discussion).

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"Waymo expands Phoenix self-driving service by putting 10 cars on Lyft"

Lyft customers in the Phoenix area will be able to choose a self-driving taxi.

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"Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it"

Still a solution looking for a problem? Seems that way

Actually, less and less people are talking about it because Blockchain is Bullshit. In 5 years time, as many people will be talking about Blockchain as talk about Google Wave.

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"Put a stop to these damn robocalls! Dozens of US state attorneys general fire rocket up FCC's ass"

Foot dragging causing real harm to Americans caught up in scams

Charge money to call people, except if whitelisted. Problem solved.

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"The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million"

It’s a hard, hard fall.

These guys were on stage at an Apple event years ago.

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"43 Best single-board computers as of 2019"

Just in case you’re bored with your Raspberry Pi.

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"The U.S. Navy Is Shrinking the Size of Its Gargantuan 70s-Era Computers"

Thanks to Moore’s Law, the Navy can save a lot of time, effort, and weight replacing old, big computer systems with new, small ones.

For March’s missile test USS Hudner ran its Aegis hardware from what the Navy calls a “virtual twin,” a handful of modern computers in ruggedized boxes. Just as your iMac running the Mac operating system computer can run virtualization software to emulate a Linux computer, the virtual twin completely emulates Aegis’ computer system and software but in a much smaller package. Moore’s Law allows these computers to replicate the physically much larger set of Aegis computers originally fitted to Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers built in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

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"First Winning Wars, Only To Lose Them Later"

by Jean-Louis Gassée

How did Apple succeed where IBM failed? Big Blue had more than enough money and market clout to initiate a viable counter attack with its proprietary PS/2 product line, a proprietary bus called Micro Channel Architecture, and its own OS/2 operating system — just like, you know, that company in Cupertino. But it lacked the management fortitude and technical skills to follow through. The human factors that allowed Apple to obstinately push the Mac forward weren’t available to Big Blue.

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"Microsoft buys Express Logic, adds a third operating system to its IoT range"

ThreadX joins Azure Sphere, Windows 10 for IoT.