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You have old floppy drives? Make a cnc!

If you still have some floppy drives around Richard Harris is showing you how to make a small cnc in a ten video series. As you may know in order to make a cnc you need stepper motors. Floppy drives were using stepper motors so

Intel® Edison development board

Few months ago we read about Intel Gallileo and everybody in makers community was excited (including myself!). This time Intel had another surprise for us. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showed a new product with the name Intel Edison. It is a mini development board that has

Getting Started with Bower

If you don’t already know about Bower then its a good time to spend some time learning about it. It’s a package manager built by twitter team and what actually does is managing dependencies.  The description from the official website says: Bower is a package

Using Arduino and TIP120 to control a DC Motor

If you are in a need to control the speed of a Dc Motor for one of your projects but you don’t care about the direction then the easiest and cheapest way is through a Darlington transistor like TIP120.  Because Arduino cannot supply enough power

Alexa Rank node package

A simple node package to get Alexa traffic rank for a domain or URL. Install the module : npm install -g alexarank Usage example Using the module is pretty straightforward : var alexa = require(‘alexarank’); alexa(“http://www.devacron.com/”, function(error, result) { if (!error) { console.log(JSON.stringify(result)); } else

Stack vs Heap

I have to admit that this still drives me crazy from time to time and because the last few weeks I am studying for a microsoft exam I wanted to totally understand the differences and the pros/cons. The best explanations i found was in a

Payment icons collection

Here is a small collection of icons that you can use when you are building a payment page. A small, lets say visa icon, next to the credit card number input field is a nice touch and gives a security feeling to the user.  

Nostalgia – Atari games

Nostalgia is a bittersweet longing for things, or situations of the past. This is what you are going to feel when you visit the link below. You can play most of the Atari games from your browser and I am sure this will bring you memories

BlogEngine.NET 2.9 Released

Even if I recently moved from BlogEngine.Net to WordPress I still believe that BlogEngine is a great piece of software. Actually its one of the very few blog engines  in Asp.net. So good news for the people that use this blog engine because two days