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UDOO NEO

  UDOO NEO is an open hardware low-cost computer equipped with a FreescaleTM i.MX 6SoloX applications processor for Android and Linux. The processor embeds an ARM® Cortex-M4 microcontroller which makes the board compatible with the Arduino environment allowing high performance at a low price. Ideal as a

Average brainpower consumption

—Resting metabolic rate: 1300 kilocalories, or kcal, the kind used in nutrition —1,300 kcal over 24 hours = 54.16 kcal per hour = 15.04 gram calories per second —15.04 gram calories/sec = 62.93 joules/sec = about 63 watts —20 percent of 63 watts = 12.6 watts

Firefox Developer Edition

Firefox is one of the best browsers out there as you already know and few days ago turned 10 years old. Usually the tradition is to bring presents to the person who has birthday but the guys in Mozilla thought the other way. They decided

Internet Explorer on Azure RemoteApp

Imagine that you are developing a website and you want to test how it looks in newer versions of Internet Explorer but only Windows 7 are installed in your pc. What are you going to do? Solution comes from Microsoft and it can run in

Windows Azure DocumentDB in NodeJS app

I’ve read a few weeks ago a small article about DocumentDB in Windows Azure which is Microsoft’s NoSQL solution in cloud, but I didn’t have time to go more in depth, until today! I came across this wonderful tutorial which explains in detail how to develop a

Microsoft Azure Hardware Infrastructure

Microsoft Azure is the leading cloud solution for those that were living in a cave the last few years and haven’t heard anything 🙂 In order to support millions of users Microsoft had to have really strong hardware resources. Dell is the major supplier and

ESP8266 The cheapest WiFi module for your Arduino

The last few weeks there is a lot of buzz around a new module which gives WiFi access to your Arduino controller via serial port. the name of it is ESP8266 and its main advantage is the very low price. Less than 3$ dollars. Comparing that

Install Windows on Intel Galileo

Really good news this time from intel and microsoft. The first one just released a UEFI firmware for Intel Galileo board first gen which now makes possible to install windows on it instead of linux. Few days ago we learned that this custom non-commercial version

Sharks Cove by Microsoft

Sharks Cove is Microsoft’s attempt to enter into the very competitive market of hardware for developers/students/makers/hackers. As you already know Raspberry Pi and Arduino are the major players. The main reason is the very low buying price and the not so steep learning curve. So

.NET Micro Framework Update?

It seems that something is moving into that area. We haven’t heard anything from microsoft for long time but probably in the next few weeks we are going to get a .NET Micro Framework Update.  As a Netduino Plus owner i have to say that this is