Meet the Arduino Due, the 32-bit board that’ll let your projects fly (really)
By Daniel Cooper posted Oct 22nd 2012 9:22AM As much as we love the Arduino Uno, it’s not the most powerful of hobbyist microcontrollers. Fortunately, the folks in Turin have just put the finishing touches on a 32-bit upgrade with buckets of potential. At the heart of the Arduino Due is an 84MHz Atmel CPU, based on ARM’s Cortex M3 Architecture, which is capable of being the brains inside your own flying drone or homemade...
Samsung Galaxy Premier rumor gathers steam with leaked GLBenchmark results
By Steve Dent posted Oct 22nd 2012 10:01AM When we first heard of a rumored Samsung Galaxy Premier handset that might be a Nexus device, we had our doubts, especially when we saw TouchWiz adorning the alleged leaked image from Mobile Geeks. Now, GLBenchmark is also giving the idea of a new model more credence, as it briefly showed a possible GT-I9260 model packing a 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display, dual 1.5GHz processor and...
Hands-On Learning with iPad
Teachers and students at Northwest Kansas Tech find a common touch point in iPad. The inspiration Since 1964, Northwest Kansas Technical College — a two-year school located in Goodland, a farming community of 4500 people in northwest Kansas — has developed highly skilled workers for the technical industries that maintain the nation’s infrastructure. The school does this by rigorously training its students on the same technology...
Skype Goes Modern in Windows 8 App
Just in time for the launch of Windows 8, Skype is getting a new modern-style app to take advantage of all the operating system’s features. Given that Microsoft owns Skype, it’s no surprise that the Windows 8 app is a model for the new modern interface. The app appears as a Live Tile on the Windows 8 Start screen, and shows a preview of missed calls or new messages. The app also runs constantly in the...
Bill Gates already has a Surface and you don’t (video)
By Ben Gilbert posted Oct 22nd 2012 10:39AM Being the founder of Microsoft certainly has its advantages, as well as its downsides. Case in point: the video interview Microsoft released this morning, starring none other than Bill Gates himself talking about the world of Windows 8. On the positive side, Gates reveals he’s already got his own soon-to-be-released Microsoft Surface RT — he calls it “an unbelievably great...
