Experimenting with Arduino

I just started with my minor, called Mobile Life, as part of my studies Computer Science. This course, taught by Rimmert Zelle, is all about Arduino & Ubiquitous Computing. The idea is, that by the end of the course we've developed a Proof of Concept utilizing the Arduino platform. The problem is, that me and my project teammate have too many ideas! So in this blog post I intend to share 3 ideas, and I hope readers will give their opinions and deliver some feedback on the proposals!

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How to: Speed up your websites!

Proud as I am of my brand-new, sexy website, I realize there's always things that can be improved. One of these things I was made aware of today by Kye, of the Diem community: the speed of this website. Admittedly I had already noticed it was somewhat on the slow side. But only when Kye confronted me with a report from webpagetest.org, I realized how bad it really was. So, with some tips from Kye, and some further googling, I set out to speed it up somehow. Because I think many (aspiring) web developers struggle with this problem, and because I've discovered how easy the improvements can be, I decided to share them with you all!

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