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Arduino DCF77 radio clock receiver 24

Posted by md on November 05, 2006

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As a first sketch, I developed a little DCF77 library for the arduino. The DCF77 sender broadcasts the exact time in Germany. It uses a binary format which needs to be decoded – which is exactly what the library does.

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Support CACert

Posted by md on November 01, 2006

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CACert offers X.509 certificates for free. You can use these certificates for email signing and encryption, as well as securing your server services.
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Arduino in da hood 1

Posted by md on October 11, 2006

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Finally, my Arduino USB board has arrived. The Arduino is an open-source platform for physical computing which allows you to integrate your circuits with a simple microcontroller. While other boards are rather expensive, the Arduino is cheap (EUR 25,-) and comes with a very easy-to-use development software…

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