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Hacking the Sonos Ikea Symfonisk Into a High Quality Speaker Amp

Hacking the Sonos Ikea Symfonisk Into a High Quality Speaker Amp

As soon as I saw IKEA’s announcement for a $99 Sonos-powered Airplay speaker, I was excited for the possibilities its internals could bring. And oh boy, was I right to be. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to whittle away the woefully inefficient compact speaker unit, and bring it to life on a pair […]

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Take These Steps to Secure Your Raspberry Pi Against Attackers

Take These Steps to Secure Your Raspberry Pi Against Attackers

A Raspberry Pi can be easily hacked if your not careful. Follow these tips to safeguard your Pi from attackers trying to get at your network.

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HOW TO – Make a “Net data meter”

HOW TO – Make a “Net data meter”

Antique voltmeter displays current air quality from the web – By Tom Igoe… One thing that disappoints me about computers is how little character they possess. Antique instruments of information display, like Victorian pendulum clocks, barometers, and compasses, and Babbage’s calculating engines, have a presence that modern computers lack. I dig the look of the […]

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Visualizing data … as pong

Representing invisible activities of data systems in a familiar and comprehensible manner can play vital role in understanding and troubleshooting digital systems – and heck, everybody loves PONG, right? Yup, even Apache web servers – Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation. We […]

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Realtime sensor network awaits your input … or output

Realtime sensor network awaits your input … or output

Wow, this could grow into something quite awesome. Pachube is – a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. The idea is to make it relatively simple to “plug” together interactive projects […]

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