http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/benchtalk/4458731/Whipping-a-cheap-LED-PSU-into-usable-shape This interesting article analyses some cheap mains AC to 12V DC power supplies and how thet can be fixed to work OK. With some modifications they can be used to provide power to LED lighting. The writer of this article has a continuing love-hate relationship with Cheap Chinese Chotchkes – in this case, 18W power →
https://opensource.com/article/17/8/linux-anniversary?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY Happy anniversary, Linux! On August 25, the Linux kernel reached its 26th anniversary. To celebrate, the writer of this article reinstalled SLS 1.05 to remind what the Linux 1.0 kernel was like and to recognize how far Linux has come since the 1990s. →
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332192 At a Hot Chips event dominated by machine learning it was clear just about everyone is doing something in AI even though no one agrees on just what to do. Microsoft, Amazon and Baidu are pushing FPGAs to cloud. Google has Tensoflow ASICs. Intel pitched four of its chip families as different tools for skinning the →
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3217713/open-source-tools/how-to-set-up-an-all-open-source-it-infrastructure-from-scratch.html Hypothetical: You need to set up the IT infrastructure (email, file sharing, etc.) for a new company. No restrictions. No legacy application support necessary. How would you do it? What would that ideal IT infrastructure look like? This presents writer’s ideal setup based on open source software. →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/biocomputer-and-memory-built-inside-living-bacteria Scientists have come up with two clever new ways to harness the programming power of DNA in living bacterial cells. In separate experiments published in Nature in July, researchers reported that they had successfully archived a movie and built a complex biological computer inside living E. coli cells. →
https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY This article has a graph that shows how license usage has changed from 2010 to 2017. In reading it, it is clear that usage of the GPL 2.0 license, one of the purest copyleft licenses around, has more than halved in usage. It seems that the popularity of open source licensing has subsequently shifted →
http://syzygyfpga.io/# Open standard for high-performance peripheral connectivity SYZYGY is FPGA-agnostic and is intended to work with products from all major FPGA manufactures including Xilinx, Intel, Lattice, and Microsemi. PMOD and SYZYGY can happily coexist in the FPGA space and even on the same carrier implementations! FMC and SYZYGY can happily coexist in the FPGA space →
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/298943 The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve and expand in terms of the number of companies, products, and applications. There are numerous IoT companies you may not yet be familiar with but that could enhance how you work and live. This article introduces 25 innovative IoT firms and products. →
https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/ New Android version has been released. →
https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive/#NASA+TV+Public+Channel →