Community Blog Round Up 19 April 2020

Photo by Florian Krumm on Unsplash
Three incredible articles by Lars Kellogg-Stedman aka oddbit – mostly about adjustments and such made due to COVID-19. I hope you’re keeping safe at home, RDO Stackers! Wash your hands and enjoy these three fascinating articles about keyboards, arduino and machines that go ping…
Some thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards by oddbit
Since we’re all stuck in the house and working from home these days, I’ve had to make some changes to my home office. One change in particular was requested by my wife, who now shares our rather small home office space with me: after a week or so of calls with me clattering away on my old Das Keyboard 3 Professional in the background, she asked if I could get something that was maybe a little bit quieter.
Read more at https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2020-04-15-some-thoughts-on-mechanical-ke/
Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino (part 1) by oddbit
The folks at Seeed Studio have just released the Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino, and they asked if I would be willing to take a look at it in exchange for a free kit. At first glance it reminds me of the Radio Shack (remember when they were cool?) electronics kit I had when I was a kid – but somewhat more advanced. I’m excited to take a closer look, but given shipping these days means it’s probably a month away at least.
Read more at https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2020-04-15-grove-beginner-kit-for-arduino/
I see you have the machine that goes ping… by oddbit
We’re all looking for ways to keep ourselves occupied these days, and for me that means leaping at the chance to turn a small problem into a slightly ridiculous electronics project. For reasons that I won’t go into here I wanted to generate an alert when a certain WiFi BSSID becomes visible. A simple solution to this problem would have been a few lines of shell script to send me an email…but this article isn’t about simple solutions!
Read more at https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2020-03-20-i-see-you-have-the-machine-tha/
Quelle: RDO