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1:20 AM

@Circuitfantasist At least you should include the following news in any of your pages that has Flash.

Adobe Deprecates Flash Components In Reader And Acrobat Products - Danish Ansari, RepublicWorld, 2020nov05
https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/apps/adobe-deprecates-flash-components-in-reader-and-acrobat-products.html
Adobe has revealed that it is removing all the Flash components in its Reader and Acrobat products. The technology is set to end by the end of this year.

tlfong01

1:33 AM

@Circuitfantasist You mentioned that you have IT students around you, and they might be future Elon Musk's. So I am suggesting some college level IT projects your students might consider.

I often try to recommend IEE and BCS (yes, they are old names) to my young digital makers.

(1) Celebrating Future Engineers - Katie Gouskos, 2020nov04
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/celebrating-future-engineers-this-is-engineering/

(2) This is Engineering
https://www.thisisengineering.org.uk/

The HX711 Covid19 Cough Sensor Project Proposal is cheap and can be done at home.

(3) Digital Making at Home
https://www.raspberrypi.org/at-home/?utm_source=shortlink&utm_medium=shortlink&utm_campaign=dmah

tlfong01

1:48 AM

(4) This is Engineering - Farming Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jesBygDUw&feature=emb_logo

I have been blogging and answering questions in rpi.org.forum and RPI SE on using HX711 for smart city and home automation. This is a recent example.

(5) HX711 Based Smart Farm Automatic Vegetable Weighting
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/527538/hx711-noise-but-only-in-a-specific-environment

tlfong01

2:46 AM

So your students can actually do digital making at home, with the basic hardware below:

(1) Rpi CM4 - US$25

(2) HX711 - US$20

(3) Loadcell - US$20

(4) Misc - US$35

(5) Total - US$100