A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

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In the Big Data era, data is not only becoming bigger and bigger; it is also becoming more and more complex. This translates into a spectacular increase of the dimensionality of the data. For example, ...

(1) Prolonged exposure for 60 hours at humidity > 80% can lead to a temporary drift of the signal +3%. Sensor slowly returns to the calibrated state at normal operating conditions. (2) High frequency ...