When and What is Prime Day? It’s not long now until the shopping behemoth that is Amazon Prime Day hits us. Starting on Tuesday, July 12th, and lasting 48 hours until the end of Wednesday, July 13th, this is one of the biggest sales events in the calendar year, and a great time to find…
Memorial Day weekend is almost upon and we’ve been researching some great deals to help you save a few bucks on some PC hardware and peripherals. If you’re looking for a new or second monitor, or those old gaming headphones are looking a little worse for wear then hopefully we got you covered. We’ve found…
There’s nothing quite like the love little critters bring into our lives, but it’s not always easy to ensure their environment is fully optimized for their needs. That’s where maker Jamie Munro’s reptile cam project comes into play. With the help of a Raspberry Pi, he’s able to monitor his pet lizards in real-time and…
Monitoring your 3D-Printer with a Raspberry Pi is nothing new, thanks to applications like OctoPrint. However, maker Kutluhan Aktar managed to tackle the process himself using a microcontroller with his Raspberry Pi Pico-powered 3D printer monitor. This project connects the Pico to the internet to relay notifications about the data it tracks and is housed…
Dr2mod, a Ukrainian maker whose Raspberry Pi work we’ve covered in the past, has developed an air raid siren monitor using a Raspberry Pi Zero W. This simple Pi project provides critical data regarding Ukrainian air raid sirens in real-time using the SBC along with an e-Ink display for visual output. This isn’t Dr2mod’s first…
If you’ve got a large, permanent desk at your home or office, it’s cheap and easy to connect your laptop to one or more external displays. However, if you’re on the go, you can’t lug a 27-inch monitor in your bag nor can you likely fit it on a tiny hotel or coworking table. That’s…
MSI has launched two new quantum dot color enhanced gaming monitors to spice up its Artymis 1000R series. Both are 27-inch VA panel monitors with quantum dot enhanced color and 1000R curvature. The key specs on offer here are the fast refresh rates, rapid response times, wide color gamut support, and compliance with standards such…
Gardening with the Raspberry Pi is nothing new, but using the the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller is another story. This week, a maker called Chrad changed that by sharing their creation of a useful houseplant monitoring system based on a Pico. Not only does the system have the capacity to monitor up to three plants,…
The California Energy Commission has put energy regulations into place in regards to gaming monitors (just like on gaming desktops) with the aim of making them more efficient. This may result in some companies being unable to ship certain gaming monitors to California due to high power consumption, similar to Dell being unable to ship…
You don’t need a “Designed for Xbox” badge to find the best gaming monitor for your new console, but if you don’t know your way around tech and just want to get the most out of your new $500 console, it might help. If so, you’re in luck, because Microsoft is adding three HDMI 2.1…