Dreamcast History An established leader in the arcade, Sega entered the home market right on the heels of Nintendo. Renamed the Sega Master System, the system known as the Mark III in Japan debuted in the United States in 1986. The Sega Master System used an 8-bit CPU, 128K ROM-based operating system and had a […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I just post a review of my MCP23017 breakout board. As the board configuration allows to connect up to 8 of these boards, I decided to do it and see that it really works. My goal is interface 8 LCD displays with two wires: SDA and SCL from an I2C bus.
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The Singularity Vernor Vinge proposes an interesting — and potentially terrifying — prediction in his essay titled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era.” He asserts that mankind will develop a superhuman intelligence before 2030. The essay specifies four ways in which this could happen: Scientists could develop advancements in artificial
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5: Bluetooth Car Stereos Just because a vehicle didn’t come straight from the dealer ready to connect to Bluetooth doesn’t need to deter you from upgrading. There are stereos on the market that can have you hooked up and ready to go in no time. These devices help sync everything together and provide you with
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I develop this MCP23017 Brekout Board to interface a 2×16 LCD display with any microcontroller using a standard I2C bus. Typical 2×16 displays needs at least 6 lines to work (when working in 4-byte mode); in some cases, this will be prohibited for some microcontrollers. With this board, you can control it with only two lines
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In most of the world, camcorders, or video camera-recorders, have been a familiar sight for nearly 20 years. People take them everywhere: to school plays, sports events, family reunions and even births! When you go to a popular tourist spot, you are surrounded by them. Camcorders have really taken hold in the United States, Japan
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Hard Drive Backup Solutions To make backing up your hard drive as easy as possible, you should set up a backup profile. Most PCs with Microsoft Windows XP have a program called Windows XP Back Up installed as a useful application. Once you open the application, you can follow the instructions from the backup wizard
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So, faced with becoming little more than a dusty museum piece, perhaps it was inevitable that watches — like phones, coffee makers, refrigerators, automobiles and even entire houses — would become “smart,” i.e., equipped with microprocessors, software and wireless connections that allow them to perform all sorts of functions beyond the one for which they
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Thermochromic inks first hit the mainstream in the 1970s, appearing in one of that era’s lasting icons — the mood ring, which supposedly used the wearer’s body heat as a sign of his or her emotional state. More recently, a microwaveable maple syrup bottle featured a thermochromic label that indicated when its buttery, delicious goodness
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LG Display, a leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has developed the world’s first Quad HD AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones. At 2560×1440 with 538ppi, the new 5.5-inch Quad HD panel is the highest resolution and ppi (pixel per inch) mobile panel to date, and provides a glimpse at what’s next after current Full HD smartphone panels, critical given the growing trend towards larger displays.
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