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"Long-Range" sensor projecs? Is the long range in the room with us? It is I2C not very well known for long ranges. Especially with motors and electric drives and their EMI I2C is n…

All are moving from monthly to usage payments anyway. You use the model you need. You don't need to use always the top tier model for anything. That is your decision. You can use a…

Why not using some other coding IDE with OpenRouter? There you can also use the models. You can even switch models easily depending on your needs and spent. There are OpenSource ve…

Be careful messing with your (modern) car like this. It may work at first glance. In some time in the future you may not be able to unlock your car. As mentioned in the article as …

Yeah, and I have the feeling it is not tested at all. It offers Word -> PDF conversion. Just for interest I tried it and it doesn't even get the simplest page right. It puts the fi…

Actually, you can buy only the 2024 version of MS Office for Mac, while the subscription is more up to date. You cannot buy a packaged 2025 version.

I feel like some HN posters simply read news and don't work in the industry and have actual insights on what's happening. Like Hydac moved some of there assembly from China to Germ…

I can't share the name. I don't know their prices. I know that they are in Eastern Europe. From my knowledge, the last time (2022ish) we talked about that was, that they don't take…

I work with companies, which have a more like small scale production. They are about 100 or so workers. Yes, this is also possible. They grew their business in the last 25 years, w…

Funfact: If you are working in the industry, you know that there are many companies who produce electronics in Europe in general and some even in Germany. Bosch, Continental, Sieme…

For a long time many German made car like from Audi, Seat, VW, BMW hat just one reverse light. On the left side is the fog light and on the right side is the reversing light.

You should read the whole article before claiming things. > After the 2019 closure of the Puttgarden-Rødby service between Germany and Denmark and the seasonal Sassnitz-Trelleborg …

Yes and no. The prices are increased about 1 month in advance. With that the average price of the last 4 weeks is increased and then you have your rebate, which is legal.

How is it the death of documentation? You can start off just with documentation and then in the process check if the code is still in line with the documentation. You can also gene…

The HTW Berlin has a autarchy calculator. Unfortunately only in German language: https://solar.htw-berlin.de/rechner/unabhaengigkeitsrechner/ They also test and publish yearly the …

I see their board uses a daughter board from Phytec, a German company too. This is based on very high performance NXP MCU, the i.MX 6UL, with additional external DDR RAM.

Actually it is. If you want to build a cheap sensor or actuator, than any additional component is getting expansive. Remember it is not only the external component, it is also the …

No, Apple push cannot use SMS/Text. You need a cell modem to have working SMS/Text. Except the phone itself, most of the devices have no cell modem. Then Apple would need to keep a…

Well, then would work for less then 50%. The majority of end user devices are run from within private networks protected from the Internet. If you have connected to your cell provi…

How do you think push should work? Any push service works this way. The client contacts the server to be updated. The server gives a no data or a data response. The server cannot m…

At least here in Germany, you shouldn't use your home address for your business at all, because of Tax obligations, at least when you are not renting. Because if you want to move y…

This adds complexity and with complexity there comes a price tag. That would make the key fob more expansive. It also adds higher power requirements this then comes with new requir…

Funfact: in the past Ford and Volkswagen had only a number of different variations for the coding of the physical keys. So that you could open and start several cars with the very …

There is another issue with all those growing 2FA/MFA protected accounts: managing your unexpected death. How do you teach your beloved ones to access your accounts. And they need …

Nope, the GNAV message is not only the position of the sateellites, the almanac https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php?title=Galileo_Navig... Spoofing of Galileo was possible as …