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Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows

The Smart TV meets toddler problem played on Olesen’s mind, until he decided that kids would benefit from the floppy disk ...
Hackaday

A Guide To Using Triacs For Switching AC

For switching high-powered loads from a microcontroller, or for switching AC loads in general, most of us will reach into the ...
Hackaday

The Shelly 2.5 Smart Relay Design Flaw Killing Capacitors

Part of any self-respecting Smart Home, smart relays are useful for switching and monitoring loads that do not plug into an outlet. This also makes them a lot more integrated, and thus, a long ...
IEEE

Slotted ALOHA With Relay Control Scheme for Air-to-Ground Communications

Abstract: This letter proposes a contention-based random access for air-to-ground communications, which is based on a slotted ALOHA protocol with a relay control scheme (RCS-ALOHA). In RCS-ALOHA, idle ...
IEEE

Automated Control Method of Multiple Peg-in-Hole Assembly for Relay and Its Socket

Abstract: In an automatic control system, multiple peg-in-hole (MPIH) assembly of a relay and its socket is often required. However, the existing hybrid position/force control (HPFC) methods cannot ...
GitHub

Implementation of an Arduino-based autopilot for aircraft control, featuring functionalities such as Auto-takeoff, Auto-landing, and Altitude-hold.

When flying an aircraft in the manual mode, the flight is less safe and hence subject to many undesirable behaviors suchs aerodynamic stall, a high bank angle or even changing route due to external ...
GitHub

ICOM IC-746 CAT Control Emulation for Arduino

This library implements the ICOM CI-V CAT protocol emulating an IC-746 transceiver. The library has been tested on a homebrew transceiver of my creation. It has been demonstrated to work with an ...