Here are some audio and video trends for 2018. Buying headphones in 2018 is going to be a fragmented mess because of a silent goodbye to the 3.5mm audio plug, Majority of new headphones introduced at CES were wireless and there are several different wireless systems. Bluetooth audio has historically sacrificed sound quality for convenience →
SMD stands for Surface Mount Device and they are components that you solder on the surface of a circuit board.Soldering them is somewhat different from soldering “traditional” through hole mounted components. There are many SMD soldering tutorials, for example How To Do SMD Soldering Using a Soldering Iron and Sparkfun Surface Mount Soldering Tutorials. Youtube →
https://www.manykey.org/tutorial.html This web page shows an interesting project to build your own custom computer macro keyboard. This design is based on Arduino Leonardo board technology. The keyboard macros can be configured with configuration software. →
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server-best-practices.html This page shows how to secure your OpenSSH server running on a Linux or Unix-like system to improve sshd security. Read also how to only allow ssh login using SSH keys https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-disable-ssh-password-login-on-linux/ →
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/artificial-intelligence-recreates-images-from-inside-the-human-brain/?utm_source=Editorial&utm_medium=Static&utm_campaign=JC This looks like wild sci-fi: A team of researchers say they have used machine-learning to recreate images in our brains, from pictures subjects were looking at to things they remember seeing. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the team said they were able to reconstruct images seen by our brains. →
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Back in the ancient days before sound cards, around 30 years ago, sound cards were rare on PCs. One hack those days was the original Covox Speech Thing, that connected a simple DAC to to PC parallel port. The Covox Speech Thing (also known as Covox plug) was an external audio device attached to the →
https://opensource.com/article/17/6/functional-javascript?sc_cid=70160000001273HAAQ Explore functional programming and how using it can make your programs easier to read and debug. →
https://opensource.com/article/18/1/top-5-firefox-extensions?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY The right extensions can greatly enhance your browser’s capabilities, but it’s important to choose carefully. Here are five that are worth a look. →
https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/#section-test-framework Let’s see by the numbers which projects got traction in 2017 by comparing the numbers of stars added on GitHub over the last 12 months. →