Your TV's RS-232 port is a powerful automation tool - how to unlock it (and what it can do)

The RS-232 serial port on your smart TV isn't just for professional diagnostics. Here's how to unlock it for more advanced ...
Willamette Week

League of Oregon Cities Says Ethics Commission Has Distorted Public Meetings Law

MEETING: Informal conversations between city officials, such as Councilors Loretta Smith and Candace Avalos, could prove difficult under new interpretations of public meetings law. (Jake Nelson) In an ...
Circuit Digest

How to Make an Interactive Voice Response System Using ESP32 GeoLinker

This project provides a simple and practical solution using an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) that works completely ...
Hosted on MSN

Mastering Arduino multi‑sensor magic for projects

Working with multiple sensors on an Arduino can unlock richer, more interactive projects. By integrating motion, light, distance, and environmental readings, you can create systems that respond ...
Forbes

3 Essential Communication Skills For Skills-Based Organizations

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Harrison Monarth is an executive coach who covers leadership. In skills-based organizations, effective communication is the ...
The New York Times

From Serial Productions: The Preventionist

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...
Time

Why Do So Many Serial Killers Come From the Pacific Northwest? A New Book Offers a Theory

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...
Electronic Design

Fiber-Optic Shield is Compatible with Arduino Uno

What is the H19 fiber-optic shield? How the platform helps streamline the design process. The custom options offered. OMC's H19 fiber-optic shield has been adapted as a stackable add-on for the ...
Forbes

10 Must-Read Books To Improve Communication Skills

Dale Carnegie, author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," one of the best communications books ever published. You can improve the way you relate to others at work, at home and in your most ...
SlashGear

Here's What A Computer's Serial Port Was For (And Where It's Still Necessary)

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...
GitHub

S06E02_arduino_serial_communication.md

There is a popular tutorial on how to parse the bytes of serial communication. However, it is quite time-consuming to implement a serial communication parser from scratch. SerialTransfer and ...