Mar 10

Teardown of the FLIC HUB LR

Recently I got some Flic buttons and decided to see what is inside of the hub. It is actually pretty interesting. The main processor they use is an “ALLWINNER TECH R7” chip this seems to be a bit overkill so I suspect that the hub is running an operating system like LINUX and is not an embedded system. Also one note about cracking it open there are screws under the rubber feet (Not cool)

Flic

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Teardown of the FLIC HUB LR

Aug 15, 2021

A first look at the raspberry pi pico

What is the pico? The pico is a new microcontroller from the raspberry pi foundation. The pico uses a custom ASIC chip designed by the raspberry pi foundation specifically for the raspberry pi pico. The chip is called the RP2040 the RP2040 is based off of the Arm Cortex M0+ processor. …

Pico

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May 9, 2021

Deep Learning based Recommender Systems

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James Loy

Hi. i was wondering how this neural network learns since you don't seem to be loading any data…

Hi. i was wondering how this neural network learns since you don't seem to be loading any data about the movies being rated or the users?

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Hi. i was wondering how this neural network learns since you don't seem to be loading any data about the movies being rated or the users?

Aug 5, 2020

3 2020 UI and UX trends

Purposeful Animation Just a couple of years ago animation was used in websites just to add a little bit of flare. But now animations are being used with intent to improve designs and make the overall user experience better. This is why material design focuses heavily on the correct usage of animations…

CSS

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Jul 23, 2020

3 Cool Tools for Frontend Developers

1. CanIUse Can I Use is a cool tool for checking if you can use a CSS feature for certain browsers. Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc “Can I use” provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile…caniuse.com 2. BundlePhobia BundlePhobia allows you to check the size of packages before you use them BundlePhobia Bundlephobia helps you find the performance impact of adding a npm package to your front-end bundlebundlephobia.com

Java Script

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Jul 20, 2020

my 3 favorite upcoming ES2020 features

1. Dynamic import I'm super excited to see ES2020 released mainly because of this one feature. It allows you to do something like this. Where you can import modules if and when you need them Instead of just importing all of your modules at the top. Here’s an example: 2. BigInt BigInt is a variable…

Java Script

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