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TechSpot have a guide to building your own mechanical keyboard, with part one and part two published. Earlier we covered in detail the required components for building your own keyboard and hopefully made the whole project feel a bit less daunting. Today we will go over the assembly process, so you can turn your pile of parts into a functioning board.
A cautionary tale from mpot, about Amazon Echo and similar devices, after one sent a private recording to a contact without permission. "Unplug your Alexa devices right now," the user, Danielle (no last name given), was told by her husband's colleague in Seattle after he received full audio recordings between her and her husband, according to the KIRO-7 report. The disturbed owner, who is shown in the report juggling four unplugged Echo Dot devices, said that the colleague then sent the offending audio to Danielle and her husband to confirm the paranoid-sounding allegation. (Before sending the audio, the colleague confirmed that the couple had been talking about hardwood floors.) We have a Google Home in the kitchen and there's been a couple of times it has spoken up in the middle of a human-only conversation. Of course, it has to listen, so it knows when you say "OK Google" - but it should ignore any audio until that happens.
Folks in our Electronics & Electrics or Hobby Engineering forums might be interested in some new official Arduino boards. The MKR Vidor 4000 is the first-ever Arduino based on an FPGA chip, equipped with a SAM D21 microcontroller, a u-blox Nina W102 WiFi module, and an ECC508 crypto chip for secure connection to local networks and the Internet. MKR Vidor 4000 is the latest addition to the MKR family, designed for a wide range of IoT applications, with its distinctive form factor and substantial computational power for high performance. The board will be coupled with an innovative development environment, which aims to democratize and radically simplify access to the world of FPGAs.
Meanwhile ARM are looking into AI and Machine Learning with a new processor. After taking a measured, wait-and-see approach to machine learning, Arm is ready to jump into the fold full throttle. Today, the company is following up on its Project Trillium announcement from back in February with new details surrounding its machine learning processor, also known as the neural-network processing unit or NPU. Arm’s machine learning processor is built upon a brand-new architecture for neural networks. Arm is setting its sights on mobile first, but the architecture is designed to be highly scalable, and will eventually span devices from the Internet of Things to the Datacenter.
Long-time friend of OCAU Hugo aka vindaloo has been busy producing electronic music lately, and has a new album out which I quite liked - maybe you will too. It's written for coding, zen, focus kinda vibes, relaxation too. For fans of Vangelis, Air, Boards of Canada.
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