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Lightning Never Strikes Twice? Maybe Blitzortung knows!

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Building for and consuming the Blitzortung Lightning Detection Network

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The article describes the PiRex robot controllable from either a web browser or a dedicate client application by using REST API.

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Part 2 in an on going series of article featuring an Autonomus Rover

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My adventure into installing a domestic CCTV system and wireless bridge.

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Hardware

ST Micro-electronics Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU/DfuSe) from C#

12 Mar 2013 by Mark McLean (ExpElec)

ST provide a DFU module for their STM32 micro-controllers for firmware upgrade over USB. This is an example of how to use it from C#.

Improving Backup Performance

1 Oct 2018 by Satnam Singh CapGemini

Improving backup performance

How to Enable Bitlocker Hardware Encryption on SEDs

22 Dec 2023 by Federico Di Marco

How to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption on self encrypting drives

Microsoft Band- Basic App for Understanding II

28 Feb 2016 by adityasahver

In this article, we will learn how to create an Tile/Page in the MS Band and trigger the details on the associated device

How to disable the Sleep button while your code is running

6 Nov 2012 by PJ Arends

I needed to disable the Sleep button on my keyboard, here's how.

Framework for Performing Aggregation and Plain MongoDB Queries in myBatis Style

12 Sep 2013 by dmgcodevil

Framework for performing aggregation and plain MongoDB queries in myBatis style

System crash? Good news!

14 Jan 2013 by cyprussun

What to do about system crashes.

16 Mar 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

L1 cache lines

Identify Unknown Hardware Using Hardware IDs

1 Jan 2012 by DaveAuld

Use the Hardware ID to determine product information

Barcode Scanning

5 Jan 2011 by Espen Harlinn

A fragment showing how easy it is to read barcodes from serially attached Symbol barcode scanners

Preserving Overheat Multithreading

17 Apr 2016 by Adamanteus

Preserving overheating processor in multitasking environment

machine-learning

Disable APM for Hard Drive in Windows

20 Aug 2014 by slaon77

Setting APM level for SATA hard drive

Get a list of physical disks and the partitions on them in VB.NET the easy way

8 Jun 2012 by pdoxtader

Use DeviceIoControl, QueryDosDevice and WNetOpenEnum to get information about your system.

Linux Platform Device Driver

26 Feb 2016 by Nagaraj Krishnamurthy

This tip will go into the details of platform devices and their corresponding drivers in Linux

Obtain Hardware Configuration Using C# and .NET

25 Oct 2016 by paul1167

Enumerate System Features

hardware-review

Find All Windows Operating Systems

13 Aug 2010 by Not Active

Plagiarized from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724429(VS.85).aspx[^]

Printing Arabic text to POS printers supporting codepage-1001

12 Oct 2014 by loody

Windows OS doesn't seem to support charset-1001 for Arabic characters, the following Tip will provide an example and working VB.NET class to do the translation manually.

XBOX 360 Controller Class

30 Dec 2014 by Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack)

A class representing the state of a connected XBOX 360 controller