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  1. CJ Logistics partners with Merlolab to develop smart LED-based worker location tracking technology, leveraging IoT sensors to enhance distribution center safety and operational efficiency through real-time movement analysis
    #YonhapInfomax #CJLogistics #SmartLED #IndoorPositioningSystem #IoTSensors #DistributionCenterProductivity #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
    en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

  2. Finally had time to look at the @HIP22 badge and have some initial #Rust code working as well as one of the 16 #LED s driven by the #WS2812 #NeoPixel #SmartLed 's.

    Something I haven't yet seen (but seems to be quite common) is (ab-)using the #SPI to produce the waves for the DIN for the LEDs:

    To recap, SPI uses SCLK, PICO/MOSI, POCI/MISO, CS/SS for communication, that is clock, data to and from peripheral and chip-select. The LED stripe only uses one "data in" port however, with a peculiar square-wave protocol that requires precise timing. One popular way to achieve that is to program the SPI to leave SCLK, POCI and CS unconfigured and only hook up PICO<->DIN. Further, since the SPI works at roughly 4x the speed the LED strips operate, to send one bit of value X over to the LED, you need to tell the SPI to send four such X valued bits.

    Now I need to figure out whether the Rust crate for this allows "empty" or dangling SPI GPIO Pins as well...
    docs.rs/crate/ws2812-spi/lates

    Some articles around this technique:
    ioprog.com/2016/04/09/stm32f04
    github.com/benwilliam/equinox_

    There are some people basically doing the same in hardware:
    sites.google.com/site/waynehol
    elektormagazine.com/news/spi-t
    youtube.com/watch?v=aCK0SpZ2ue