Circuits@Home has been journaling their development of a USB host mode shield for Arduino, which could bring a veritable explosion of mass storage, keyboard input and countless other peripherals (and a corresponding raft of new hacks) to the platform. Currently at the prototype stage, a ready-made shield and library are forthcoming, so keep checking back. Meanwhile, for embedded developers wanting to learn the ropes of USB, the in-progress articles will likely provide some valuable insights.
[thanks Kersny]
Hack
Arduino USB host shield
Life
Leaders Must Be Wise
Knowledge can remember, while the policy penetrate physical boundaries. Wisdom is something that allows us to use the knowledge properly.
We live in the era of knowledge explosion. Various studies show that half of human knowledge has been found a decade ago, and so on. Furthermore, the knowledge we will be doubled in the last decade.
Effective leaders always develop knowledge by reading. They gather the necessary facts so that they can take the right decision.
With knowledge, a leader does not fear, doubt, or worry in completing the work, as well as a tool for the process. Wisdom is…
Tech Support
Twitter For Your Business
Following up from the last set of Social Media Marketing webinars where we covered the basics of Twitter and other Social Media tools and sites, I have been getting questions about using Twitter for business purposes. In response to those questions, I wanted to write out a short list of Twitter for Business best practices and some of the most popular tools that make these practices possible. This list of tools, techniques, and what is possible is changing and expanding almost daily with the explosion of Twitter usage and discussions of Twitter merging with some other site/partner. Thus I expect…
Automotive
What Do You Mean by Four Stroke?
What is a -stroke diesel engine?As the name suggests, these engines work on reciprocatingactions of pistons. One stroke means one linear motion of thepiston in one direction. When the piston moves in the oppositedirection, that is counted as another stroke.For a -stroke engine, the piston has to move up, then down,then up again, and then down again to complete one cycle of theengine. In that stroke of the piston, the crankshaft will haveturned revolutions.The strokes of the piston is to complete stages of thecombustion cycle. As you might have known, in order for a fireor explosion to occur to…
Automotive
Inside Knowledge About Diesel Engines
One of the most reliable internal combustion engines around isthe diesel engine. In many industrial installations, dieselengines are used as prime movers for the generation ofelectricity and for emergency air compressors.It’s true that they are rugged, but one of the most importantadvantages of these engines is the fact that they can be startedby manual cranking. In remote areas, diesel engines can becounted upon for starting up from scratch.Once a small diesel engine is started, it can be used to drive asmall electrical generator that can then be used to produceelectrical supply for driving other machines like pumps,compressors, and for…
Health and Wellness
Know about Green Tea for Health Life
Green tea is a kind of tea that has been very popular in China and Japan for centuries, and has recently seen a massive explosion in popularity in the West. Its rise is linked in many ways to that of the alternative health movement, which sees green tea as having a range of traditional healing properties and abilities to cure diseases.
Although these claims have not been proven, there is documentation for belief in them that goes back over a thousand years.
Some green tea is produced outside China and Japan, but it is mostly considered to be cheap imitations…
