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Filtering Microsoft Surface Finger Touches for ScatterViewItems
By default, Microsoft Surface responds to any touch, including non-finger touches for example caused by a hovering hand or a sleeve touching the table. While they can be ignored using the...
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Email Archiving Solution
I was looking for a way to archive emails from various accounts, which are currently stored in different places. Some of them are still accessible via IMAP, some are stored in local mail clients (on...
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PICOntrol
Controlling two lamps with a handheld projector In everyday environments, we are increasingly surrounded by a growing number of electric devices. At the same time, many of these devices are shrinking...
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GravitySpace
A New Approach to Tracking People and Objects Based on a Pressure-Sensing Floor GravitySpace recognizes people and objects. We use a mirror-metaphor to show how GravitySpace identifies users and tracks...
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Personal Clipboards
Personal Clipboards for Individual Copy-and-Paste on Shared Multi-User Surfaces The copy-and-paste functionalities provided by clipboards are omnipresent on today’s computing devices from desktops to...
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Simple Moving Average Filter in Python
Just a simple moving average filter implementation as Python class, nothing more. class MovingAverageFilter: """Simple moving average filter""" @property def avg(self): """Returns current moving...
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Installing SciKits’ Bootstrap using Python 3.3
Installing scikits.bootstrap (version 0.3.1) using easy install (Python 3.3 on Windows 7) ran through, despite reporting a syntax error (referring to line “except TypeError, e”). However, importing...
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Kickables: Tangibles for Feet
This example of a museum exhibit on basic molecules allows visitors to interact by kicking physical objects around—which we call kickables. (a) This visitor starts a tutorial video by pushing a...
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Sending Emails with Attachement for New S3 Objects
Use Case and Solution Notify users about a new object (e.g., an image or log file) being added to an S3 bucket by sending an email that contains the new object as attachement. The solution presented...
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Scan and automatically OCR receipts, bills, letters, etc. without turning on...
I was looking for a solution to digitally archive incoming (paper) bills, receipts, letters, etc. to make them easily searchable (OCR). Ideally, this solutions would be as simply as putting a document...
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Fixing MacBook Bluetooth Mouse & Keyboard Issues under Windows 10
TL;DR If your MacBook Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, etc. don’t work or stop working after a few seconds under Windows 10, write a script that performs a Bluetooth discovery every few seconds. This keeps...
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Hydropomic Smart Garden Controller
IDOO’s hydroponic systems are great for growing plants inside. They are controlled using on-device buttons. In this project, I replaced all circuit boards with an ESP8266 microcontroller plus some...
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Karaoke at Home: How to Use Apple Music Sing on an Apple TV with Microphones...
Karaoke is a fun and entertaining way to spend an evening with friends and family. And with Apple Music Sing, it’s now easier than ever to turn your living room into a karaoke bar. This feature, which...
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