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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Module for IOT : ESP32, Buy in India
Tags: Arduino, Internet of Things, Bluetooth, Wifi

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Module for IOT : ESP32, Buy in India

Complete details of ESP32 module, including Specification, Price, Pros & Cons Ujjwal Follow Apr 13 · 3 min read

ESP32 is a progression of minimal effort, low-power framework on a chip microcontrollers with integrated Wi-Fi and dual-mode Bluetooth. The ESP32 arrangement utilizes a Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microchip in both dual-core and single-core varieties and includes built in antenna switches, RF balun, power amplifier, 2.4 GHz dual-mode Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips by TSMC 40nm low power technology, power and RF properties best, which is safe, reliable, and scalable to a variety of applications. Supporting three modes: AP, STA, and AP+STA.Supporting Lua program, easy to develop.Strong function with support LWIP protocol, Freertos.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Module for IOT : ESP32

It’s SDK Firmware uses for programming and open source toolchains based on GCC for development support. It is designed for Generic low power IoT sensor hub, loggers, video steaming for camera, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth enabled devices, Home automation and mesh network applications, aimed at makers, hardware engineers, software engineers and solution provides.

ESP32 is made and created by Espressif Systems, a Shanghai-based Chinese organization, and is made by TSMC utilizing their 40 nm process. It is a replacement to the ESP8266 microcontroller.

Specifications :

Processors

CPU: Xtensa dual-core (or single-core) 32-bit LX6 microprocessor, operating at 160 or 240 MHz and performing at up to 600 DMIPS

Ultra low power (ULP) co-processor

Memory

520 KiB SRAM, 448 KiB ROM

Wireless connectivity:

Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n

Bluetooth: v4.2 BR/EDR and BLE (shares the radio with Wi-Fi)

Peripheral interfaces

12-bit SAR ADC up to 18 channels

2 × 8-bit DACs

10 × touch sensors (capacitive sensing GPIOs)

4 × SPI

2 × I²S interfaces

2 × I²C interfaces

3 × UART

SD/SDIO/CE-ATA/MMC/eMMC host controller

SDIO/SPI slave controller

Ethernet MAC interface with dedicated DMA and IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol support

CAN bus 2.0

Infrared remote controller (TX/RX, up to 8 channels)

Motor PWM

LED PWM (up to 16 channels)

Hall effect sensor

Ultra low power analog pre-amplifier

Security

IEEE 802.11 standard security features all supported, including WFA, WPA/WPA2 and WAPI

Secure boot

Flash encryption

1024-bit OTP, up to 768-bit for customers

Cryptographic hardware acceleration: AES, SHA-2, RSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), random number generator (RNG)

Power Management

Internal low-dropout regulator

Individual power domain for RTC

5 μA deep sleep current

Wake up from GPIO interrupt, timer, ADC measurements, capacitive touch sensor interrupt

For more details click here or here.

Buy in India :
Duino Coin Mining on a Raspberry Pi
By: Dan Sinclair
Tags: Mining, Duino Coin, Arduino, Cryptocurrency, Raspberry Pi

What is Duino Coin?

Duino Coin (DUCO) is a centralised based cryptocoin that has been designed to be easily mined on small IOT type devices like Raspberry Pi and Arduino (hence Duino Coin). It’s still in the early stages of its life (compared to other giants like Bitcoin and Etherium) but by allowing users to mine for the coin on small, low cost devices, it paves the way for a different generation of miners to get involved in crypto.

Why mine on a Raspberry Pi?

Good question. Simple answer. Because you can.

I’m a keen Raspberry Pi hobbyist and have been for many years. I currently have 3 Raspberry Pi devices in my house doing various things, and some sat here collecting dust so why not use them for something that will earn me some £££ in the background?

How do you mine on a Raspberry Pi?

First of all, go and register yourself an account on the Duino Coin Wallet page. Remember your username, you’ll need it for mining!

get your Raspberry Pi installed with the latest Raspbian OS (I’d recommend the lite version as you won’t need a desktop for this) and make sure you can SSH into it. If you need a guide to do that, checkout this one over on the Raspberry Pi website.

Once you’ve SSHd into your Pi, run the following commands in the terminal;

Once the Pi has updated, upgraded, installed and cloned the above, we need to start a screen session to run the miner in so we can exit out of the SSH session without stopping the miner. I won’t go into too much detail on how to use screen, but if you want to know more about it check out this article.

To start the screen session, type screen bash . This will create you a brand new screen session using bash as the shell. Now to start mining;

If this is the first run, you’ll be asked some simple questions to help configure your miner. If you ever need to edit these settings later, you can do so by typing nano PCMiner_2.4_resources/Miner_config.cfg and editing them accordingly.

To detach from this screen session (so that you can close the SSH session) simply press ctrl + a and then d . To go back into your session, type screen -r .

That’s it! You’re now mining crypto on a Raspberry Pi!

Extra

If you want your Pi to start mining as soon as it’s powered on type crontab -e (if it’s your first time editing your crontab, you’ll be prompted for your preferred editor. I assume you’ve chosen nano ). At the very bottom on this file, add

@reboot screen -dm bash -c "cd ~/duino-coin; python3 PC_Miner.py"

Then press ctrl + o , ctrl + x and your cron job will be saved. To give it a try, simply reboot your Pi ( sudo reboot ) and type screen -r to see your mining progress.

Conclusion

The guys over at Duino Coin have made it super simple to mine on small, inexpensive devices, and are constantly improving everything (so don’t be surprised if you see a few errors pop up in your console). If you get too worried and need to ask some questions, check out the Duino Coin website for the best way to do it.
RPA Display System
By: Santan Barnwal
Tags: Display System, Led Matrix, Arduino, Rpa, Esp8266

RPA Display System showing Transaction number and Transaction Status

I was learning how to control LED using Arduino and ESP8266 then got curious how to apply this in real world scenario, so an idea came in my mind to make RPA display board (As you can see in above pic)

Using this display board, User can see the status at Realtime without connecting to the Orchestrator or System.

Learning LED control using shift register

What is ESP8266?

It is a WIFI module with microcontroller capability. It is having many pins, I have explained the pins which we will be using in this project.

Pin Description:

3.3V − Supply 3.3 output volt

GND (Ground) − There are several GND pins on the Arduino, any of which can be used to ground your circuit.

GPIO Pins :These are used as Input / Output pins for multiple purpose.

Component used in this project:

ESP8266 microcontroller board 74HC595 8-bit Serial to Parallel Shift Register IC Breadboard Hookup Wires RGB LED LED Matrix module

Connections:

RPA Display Board Circuit

Hardware implementation

An image showing the circuit of LED Matrix, Breadboard and Microcontroller

Arduino Code:

Copy the code from below location in Arduino IDE:

Change SSID and Password in the code

ssid = “<Wifi_SSID>”; //Change SSID of your Wificonst char*

password = “<Wifi_Password>”; //Change Password of your wifi

Upload the code after connecting to the circuit

A fter uploading the code, This Display board can be connected to any mobile charger or Power Bank

Once the code is uploaded to the Microcontroller, It will try to connect to the WIFI network.

Once WIFI connection is successful, open the assigned IP Address in Browser and It will open a web form(As below)

A web form for RPA Display Board

For testing, Type any number/text in “Transaction Number” text box and (0 to 7) in “Transaction Status” text box and then click “Send Data” button. It will appear as shown in below image

0: No LED will glow

1–6: LED will glow

7: First five LEDs will glow red to show transaction error

RPA Display board powered by a Power Bank, Showing Transaction message and Transaction Progress

Once everything is ready, It can be controlled by any RPA tool.

A sample UiPath workflow can be found in below link:

https://github.com/santanbarnwal/RPA_Display_Board/blob/main/Search_Engine.zip

Use Case used in this workflow: 1. Get Keyword from Email

2. Search in Google

3. Search in Yahoo

4. Search in Bing

5. Generate Report and reply to the email

A video for this project can be found in below link:

Happy Reading :)

If you want to purchase this DIY kit, then please fill the below form and we will connect with you :

https://forms.gle/YcV5xeQBRX9782fv9

Follow me on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/santanbarnwal/

Subscribe to my YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoF8-B_MfOCL40szrorbtyQ

My Website: www.santanbarnwal.com

— Santan Barnwal
Rotary T9
By: Latent Cybernetics
Tags: Retrocomputing, Cyberpunk, Arduino, Hardware

The hardware interface

I figured I’d get started on interfacing this device. The design is pretty darn simple and resilient: Four wires come out of the dial:

White for V-, Green for V+, Yellow is the inverse of “dialer click,” and brown the inverse of “dialer active”.

To dial a number, the user inserts a finger into the corresponding hole on the face of the dial and rotates the dialer counter-clockwise until the black bar is reached, extending a spring within the dial. When the finger is extracted, the face of the dial rotates back to its original position and “clicks” once for every number that is passed. Counting these clicks reveals the number that was dialed. The contraption on the lower right of the photo above contains the switches controlling the brown and yellow wire’s connectivity.

The brown wire is connected to the white wire (V-) while the dialer is in motion. The yellow wire connected to the green wire (V+) except when a number is passed during rotation. These disconnections are the “clicks” we count to determine what number was dialed.

To interface this to an Arduino’s digital IO pins, I connect the brown wire to V+ through an 18kOhm resistor, and the yellow wire to V- through another 18kOhm resistor. I then connect the brown and yellow wires to two arbitrarily chosen Arduino IO ports. When the dialer is at rest, the brown port will be high — and will be pulled low while we are dialing. The yellow wire’s port is also held high, and is pulled low once for every number that is passed.

I interfaced this with an Arduino Mega with an LCD alphanumeric header, as seen below:
An Introduction to EEPROM
By: Umair Nehri
Tags: Programming, Coding, Arduino, Eeprom, Development Board

Hello everyone and welcome to yet another blog by a fellow nerd at Axial. Today, we will be discussing about the EEPROM Memory chips which are the first, and most commonly considered memory devices to add to embedded systems these days.

[0x00] What exactly is EEPROM?

EEPROM or Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory is a non-volatile memory chip that can be used for storing a small amount of data from a computer or some other electronic device. EEPROM being non-volatile in terms of storage has the ability to retain the stored information even after the power is removed. An individual byte of data stored in the memory can be erased or reprogrammed (written to) repeatedly although it has a limited life, meaning that the number of times it can be reprogrammed to tens or hundreds of thousands of times.

In this blog, we will mainly focus on the ATMEGA328P microcontroller present on the Arduino UNO R3 Development Board. The microcontroller has an EEPROM having a total size of 1024 bytes. The EEPROM here has a life expectancy of around 100,000 Write/Erase cycles which means that you can write and erase/re-write bytes of data in this memory chip at least over 100,000 times before the EEPROM becomes unstable.

Image showing the expected lifetime of EEPROM at various write frequencies

In the image above, you can have an idea about the expected lifetime of the EEPROM at various write frequencies.
Decalogue to myself
Tags: Arduino, Laboratory, Open Design, Electronics

3- Electric circuits must be closed.

This concept is important! Because you can get stressed when something is not working and the solution might be that the connection is not finished yet. Protoboards can look similar but be different. They are only connectors, they don’t actually have electricity unless you make them part of a circuit, a closed circuit. Although protoboards have a colorful interface to help you identify where to connect wires, the color won’t determine the function of each cell. Instead, the protoboard will perform according to the connections that you made among each line or column.

4- Negative goes to ground.

I noticed that ground is the English word for what in Argentina is called “tierra” in electricity. For me this means security and no life risk so I learnt fast that the circuit should include this factor.

5- Arduino works with inputs and outputs.

This was the first thing I learnt while taking a shower when I was listening to tutorials before starting the seminar. I understand Arduino as an interface. Between what? That is what we must design. We must know what information we need, then design an instrument to measure it, set it up, use it, and evaluate the results. Finally, classify variables, analyze their potential, and translate those results into changes to our project.

6- Everything can enrich my design process.

Concepts

Laboratory aided design. As a design strategy, measuring can be very stimulating because designing measuring devices or mechanisms or actions includes an integral approach to the topic or problem or question we are facing. Even when designing a poll or quiz we are deciding, classifying, and defining the study object. What the scientific method brings to light is the importance of making conscious the components and variables that affect our object of study. Are variables correlated? The hard part is to document and make real thoughts on what we are documenting. Videos and photos are not the same as thoughts, reflections or conclusions. I’m very practical and, although I feel confident in writing (not so much in English), I am not so tidy at writing down every modification as things are happening.
Write for Frazzled
By: Andrew Knott
Tags: Parenting, Satire, Writing, Submission Guidelines, Humor

Write for Frazzled

This is a cow. (Photo by Sophie Dale on Unsplash)

Frazzled is a place for parenting humor with a particular focus on fictionalized and conceptual humor about life with kids.

If you want to write parenting humor with us, send an email to frazzledparents@gmail.com with a link to an unpublished draft or a note saying you’d like to be added as a writer. Put “New Writer” in the subject line, please.

Being added as a writer does not mean every piece you submit will be published, but we’ll do our best. Please keep in mind the following guidelines for content.

What we’re looking for:

1. Funny!

Funny stuff only, please. Nothing that will make us cry. Unless it’s tears of joy.

2. Parenting!

The funny stuff needs to be in some way related to parenting.

3. Conceptual Fiction, Lists, Fake News, Fake Advice

All of these are golden. Check out what we’ve published already to get a better idea. Other humorous formats are also great. Bring them on.

These are our 3 most read pieces to give you an idea of what we publish.

4. Nothing Terribly Offensive

We are very sensitive people, so please don’t scare us.
Submit
By: Amrita Chowdhury
Tags: Fiction, Submission Guidelines, Writing, Nonfiction, Writers On Writing

What we’re looking to publish?

Since No Writing aims to help writers achieve their career goals, we are looking for articles that focus on writing, editing and publishing articles, short stories, essays, fiction, novels, nonfiction et al. Any high-quality piece that includes fresh advice on writing a manuscript, getting published, querying agents, self-publishing hacks, freelance writing goals, editors’ experience, author interview, writing routines, first person accounts of going through the industry, pitfalls of the industry, is what we aim to produce.

We’re looking for you, if

you have advice on how to write believable characters,

you have advice on working with editors,

you know how to pitch to magazines and journals,

you have a unique way to outline your stories before you start writing,

you had advice on how to write a book while being a full-time parent,

you have tips and tricks on doing market research for a book,

you have fresh tips on avoiding writers’ block

…. and other similar topics.

Photo by Mark Duffel on Unsplash

What rules do you have to follow?

All submissions must comply with Medium’s Rules and Ad-Free Policy. Partner Program stories must also comply with Medium’s Content Guidelines and Curation Guidelines. We only accept previously unpublished drafts. However, stories published outside of Medium are welcome to be submitted as unpublished drafts, but posts already published on Medium are not accepted. Please do not violate Medium’s rules on duplicate content. Submissions must be non-fiction. We reserve the right to reject content deemed offensive or inappropriate. Product reviews (including promotion for writing tools, apps, services) is not allowed. Mentioning a tool/app/service that has been beneficial to you as a writer is okay, as long as it not affiliated with you or promoted by you. You can include single links to your website, blog, social media, in your author bio, that will appear at the bottom of the submission. Stories requesting link clicks, money via payment apps and claps, will be removed. All submissions must be in UK or US English and free of grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, or language issues. You retain all rights to your content and can remove it from No Writing, if you choose, however if you habitually remove stories from our publication (more than twice), we retain the right to remove you from the publication.

By submitting a story to the No Writing, you are agreeing to comply with all of our rules and policies. You will be removed as a writer for the publication if there are multiple violations.

How to submit?

Start an account on Medium. Write a story and without publishing it, send the draft link to Amrita at thesubjectivist@gmail.com. The draft link can be found when you click on the three little dots right next to the bell icon beside your profile photo, on the top-right corner of the screen. Reviewing an article can take anywhere from 1 to 2 weeks. All decisions are final.
Publish Your Super View Android App to Google Store with Our Play Store Submission Guidelines
By: Gracia Celine
Tags: Android Apps, Play Store Submission, Submitappz, App Submission Service, Submission Guidelines

Publish Your Super View Android App to Google Store with Our Play Store Submission Guidelines gracia celine Jul 6·2 min read

When publishing and uploading SuperView to the Play Store, you require to get to know all the Play Store Submission Guidelines while beginning the process of submission. So, besides our Android App Submission Service, you can develop and publish your apps to the Google play store within few clicks. It’s a unique process to customize icons and images etc. We commence to publish the android app to the app store.

What the Benefits Are through Submit Your Apps with Play Store Submission Service

While using our Best App Submission Service you can get more profit to publish your android business apps to the Google store. let to know some benefits are through our Play Store Submission Service. They are,

· Latest Android Studio

· Awesome Code Quality

· App Billing

· Monetize your app with Ad Mob

· Firebase Push Notifications

· One Signal

· Deep Linking

· Social via Login

· Customize and easy to use

· Geolocation to trace the location of the objects

· Responsive design

· Local Notification

· Android Multitasking supported and etc.

With our app store submission guidelines, you can upload and publish your SuperView android apps to the Google play store and develop your business profits with Submitappz.
How to Submit to ESOTERIA
By: Kelly Tatham
Tags: Spirituality, Metaphysics, Magic, Esoteric, Submission Guidelines

ESOTERIA is a publication that takes a deliberate look at things unknown. Our mission statement is to better understand the human condition by engaging with fields and experiences that have been otherwise dismissed.

We’re interested in work that is measured and thought-provoking. We aim to emphasize radically compassionate thinking and err on the side of optimism. We welcome any and all perspectives backed by the motivation of evolving human consciousness.

What, specifically, are we looking for?

We’re looking for personal essays, interviews, inquiries, open letters, recipes, meditations, book reviews, and any other formation of words and photos that look at the mystical, magical, supernatural, miraculous, metaphysical, and unknown.

We’re looking for work that takes a step back from our assumptions and conditioning to question the bigger picture.

Have you discovered parallels between two seemingly unrelated fields like dark matter and the unconscious or narrative and the fabric of reality? Do you want to investigate the brilliance of Co-Star and the impact of astrology on our modern society, defend your life’s calling as a tarot reader, or teach others how mythology can enrich their lives?

Tell us your ghost stories or what you found out when you opened the Akashic Records. We want to know how spell casting changed your life and what the plants told you the last time you tripped on mushrooms or meditated in the forest. Tell us what the modern person could learn from Helena Blavatsky or what Carl Jung was onto with Kundalini Yoga. There is no box.

Take a deep breath... What do you want the world to know?

Photo by Chen YiChun on Unsplash

Submit your most magical published and unpublished work below.

Please allow up to one week for a response.
Write for The Daring
By: Ioana Friedman
Tags: The Daring, Submission Guidelines, Writing

The Daring is assembled by artists for artists. We are a global platform for emerging and established talent celebrating mindfulness, courage, and human potential through thoughtful writing. We are interested in profound explorations and in challenging conventional thinking. Our stories seek to analyze, entertain, and spark conversation around relevant industry topics. We’re looking for strong opinions, loosely held. We publish columns on a rolling basis and will curate broad and engaging quarterly themes.

What we love

Creative process discourse, contemplative personal essays, short fiction, and original artwork. We seek deep stories that lift the veil on the creative journey because we are intrinsically curious about growth and development. How do you make your best work ever? What challenges you? What feels good? How do you integrate your vision with other areas of your life? These are the questions that drive us. We’d love to hear your unique perspective. Here are some topics we’d love to cover:

Improving the human condition — Promoting empathy, courage, and love, working through fear, embracing discomfort, healing fragmentation within culture, optimizing ourselves, personal mastery of our bodies and minds

— Promoting empathy, courage, and love, working through fear, embracing discomfort, healing fragmentation within culture, optimizing ourselves, personal mastery of our bodies and minds Explorations — Personal challenges, breakthroughs, mindfulness, self-awareness, travels, inventive modes of art and entertainment

— Personal challenges, breakthroughs, mindfulness, self-awareness, travels, inventive modes of art and entertainment Switching lanes —Progressing into a new career, forging a new path, personal reinvention, seismic shifts

—Progressing into a new career, forging a new path, personal reinvention, seismic shifts Leadership + Culture—Creating inspired and high-value teams, cultivating patience and fortitude, getting unstuck, building trust and loyalty

Submission guidelines

Contribute an article. To have your submission considered, please fill out this form. If your story aligns with The Daring’s themes, we’ll be in touch within two weeks.

Contribute original artwork. We are looking for original art to accompany the writing we publish. Illustrators, photographers, media creators—you may submit up to 5 images at a time.

We reserve the right to edit your story. The Daring can alter your story for grammar, visual style, bylines, and to add images. If you remove this content after the story is published, it will be removed from The Daring.

We’re looking to build long-term relationships. We ask that once your story has been published on The Daring, it stays here. We ask that you do not release it on another Medium publication.

We will publish author bylines that are 1–2 sentences long. Please keep them to text only and feel free to include one link where readers can learn more about you.
Submit to the Wave!
By: Fourth Wave Editors
Tags: Equality, Writing Life, Writing, Submission, Submission Guidelines

Submit to the Wave!

Photo above by author. Banner a mash-up of photos by Marcus Dall Col on Unsplash and Ryan Moreno on Unsplash.

Why Fourth Wave?

Fourth Wave is here to talk about women and other disempowered groups. We’re looking for pieces about how to make the world a better place, with an eye to reducing sexism, racism, homophobia, poverty, homelessness, mental illness, environmental destruction, and other blights. We also like reviews, humor, fiction, and poetry on those themes.

Have you got a story? Submit to the Wave! If your piece is ready to go, drop a link in our SUBMISSION FORM. If you want to talk, send an email to 4thwavesubmissions@gmail.com. If you want more information, see the Submission Guidelines.

Why are you named Fourth Wave? (Asking for a friend)

Fourth Wave is a feminist term. Suffragettes created the First Wave of feminism which earned American women the right to vote in 1920 and focused on overturning legal barriers to gender inequality.

The Second Wave came in the 1960s and ’70s and broadened the movement to include issues of sexuality, family, the workplace, and reproductive rights.

The Third Wave appeared in the 1990s and sought to redefine the term feminist, arguing for more individuality and diversity.

The Fourth Wave is the era we are in today. It started around 2012 and focuses on empowering women using Internet tools. But the Fourth Wave isn’t just about women. Fourth Wave feminists recognize that interlocking systems of power work together to keep all marginalized groups in check. They argue that increasing diversity in politics and business will bring about a better and more just society for everyone. Please join us in making the world a better place, one reader at a time. Follow Fourth Wave!
Hey, past and present Inspired Leaders!
Tags: Students, Leadership, Student Voice, High School, Submission Guidelines

2018–19 Inspired Leaders at Dobson High School in Arizona rally their peers to have a voice and to participate in their community and democracy. #inspire2vote Let’s Vote!

Hey, past and present Inspired Leaders!

We want to hear from you. We at Inspire U.S. are all about making the youth voice heard and that doesn’t stop with registration drives or summits or pledging to participate in the civic process. We want to know how being a part of Inspire has changed your life, opened your eyes, fired you up, affected your thinking, or anything else.

We want you to tell your story to the world, and who better to tell it than you?

If you want to submit an opinion piece to be posted on Inspire U.S.’ Medium page, please email a 500-to-900 word submission on a topic of your choosing to media@inspire-usa.org with the subject “Medium Submission” and your name. Please include in the email body: (1) the name you would like it to be published under, (2) your age, (3) High School or College name, (4) your graduation year, (5) when you participated in our program, and (6) two or three photos of yourself in your Inspire shirt (or any pics that you like).

If you have not yet participated in our program, you are still welcome to contribute. Just let us know why you wanted to share your thoughts with us.

We look forward to hearing from you all! — The Inspire U.S. Team ✌️✌️
Mini Mailer Submission Guidelines
By: Vidya Kasarla
Tags: Submission Guidelines, Mini Mailer, Letters, Gratitude

Are you ready to post your letter?

Only consider submitting your article if you answer ‘yes’ to each of these questions.

Is my article the right fit for Mini Mailer?

As much as we love letters from a unique first-hand experience, we cannot publish them. For example, ‘ Dear Mom, thank you’ would be more suited to a different publication due to the subject being someone specific in your personal life, whom only you know; whereas ‘Dear Moms, thank you’ is applicable to mothers everywhere. We only publish content that is generalisable and has broad appeal to our readers. Mini Mailer does not publish any self-promotional content.

Is it clear, coherent and have little to no grammatical errors?

At Mini Mailer, there is a specific quality of writing that our editors look for before publishing. Consider installing Grammarly or its chrome extension to assist you with your article whilst making our lives a lot easier at the same time, two birds with one stone!

Is it an unpublished draft? If you’ve already published your story in another publication or you’ve self-published it then we won’t be able to accept it; this ensures stories gain the most exposure possible. Submissions must be original and previously unpublished elsewhere. Stories that are published by accident may not be deleted and resubmitted; that is a violation of Medium’s rules on duplicate content. Though feel free to promote your writing after your letter has been published.

Does my letter give good vibes?

We’re looking for positive pieces that will leave our readers feeling inspired. While we do accept stories that point out an issue, your letter should also aim to tackle that problem. We’re not asking for toxic positivity but we do want to spread our positive energy.

How to submit

Here is how you post your letter to our mailbox.

Click on the 3 dots on the top right corner, next to your profile picture. Select ‘Add to publication’, and then check on Mini Mailer.
Calling All Happy Humans: Submissions Welcome!
By: Luba Sigaud
Tags: Publication, Advice, Writing Prompts, Submission Guidelines, Write For Us

Calling All Happy Humans: Submissions Welcome!

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

First of all, I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to The Happy Human so far. It’s been an honor and a joy to read and publish your work.

Side note: If you’re not yet part of The Happy Human and would like to join, here are the submission guidelines. We’d love to have you!

As our publication has grown, I want to make it easier for all of you to share your stories about happiness, well-being, and living life to the fullest.

That’s why I need your advice.

Here are a few ideas I’ve had. I’d love to hear yours:

First of all, I’m going to reward great submissions by prioritizing them and publishing them as soon as possible. I know what it’s like to submit to a publication and not hear back for a week or more, and I don’t want to inflict that on anyone who writes for The Happy Human.

If you haven’t heard back about your article within three days (excluding Sundays), please send me a note and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. You deserve timely answers.

The second thing I’ve thought of doing is offering monthly writing prompts to help you get inspired about what you could write about. This would be completely optional, of course, but if you think it’s a good idea, please let me know.

Finally, I’d like to say this: The Happy Human wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for all of you. Without your stories, there would be nothing to publish or read, and there would be no publication. That’s why I can’t thank you enough for being part of this growing community. I appreciate each and every one of you more than I can say.

Please feel free to share your thoughts and suggestions; I’d love to hear how I can make this publication better for everyone, and I hope you’ve all had a great start to September!

— Luba
Submission for Issue 2: Volume 1 is open.
By: The Stripes Magazine
Tags: Published, Call For Submissions, Issues, Open Calls, Submission Guidelines

Submission for Issue 2: Volume 1 is open.

Theme: NO WHERE NEAR HOME

[Destination, People, Places]

Submission Deadline: September 1- September 30

NO WHERE NEAR HOME

[Destination, People, Places]

Send us your nostalgia, secret longing, hopes and desires. Tell us of a destination, a person, a place that makes you feel at home.

Tell us of those you miss and your hunger to be beside them again.

Send us into the past, to your village, a ceremony: tell us of distance, jet lag and December rushes. We want it all!

We accept Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Personal Essays, Art pieces and Photography.

POETRY

Send 3–5 poems (30 lines max) in the body of your email accompanied by your cover letter and bio.

Send your pieces to thestripesmag@yahoo.com

SUBJECT: Genre: Nowhere near home (poetry: Nowhere near home)

FICTION

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Folks, Here Are Some Things to Keep in Mind Before Submitting to Be Open
By: Roselyn Violet
Tags: Formatting Guideline, Be Open, Publication, Submission Guidelines, Medium

Folks, Here Are Some Things to Keep in Mind Before Submitting to Be Open

Image Courtesy — Ali Hajian: Unsplash

I recently joined Be Open as an editor, and I love it. It gives me real good vibes to read different stories, edit them, and curate them. Till the next month, I’ll be dedicating myself to this community. And I hope I do my best to establish genuine online connections with different people and sail smoothly through this voyage.

Being the editor is like being the bridge between the readers and writers, and it is…challenging.

But, what I’ve recently realized is, that being the editor is like being the bridge between the readers and writers, and it is…challenging. And as especially our community cares about newbie writers who are not well versed with Medium’s features and formatting guidelines, I have to work a bit more with them to provide the best content to our readers. And due to my busy schedule being a student and editor, I often reject pieces with great ideas drafted with poor words and formatting if it involves a lot of editing because readers matter as much as writers do — It is my duty not to publish poor content.

Though I help newbie writers with grammar editing, here are some basic guidelines to adhere to if you do not want to get rejected as a newbie writer. This guide will help both of us, so do not forget to save it for future reference.
Sustainability workshop: Is it really sustainable?
By: Mick Jongeling
Tags: Online Learning, Sustainability, Workshop, Digital Design, Course Report

Results and Reflection

The day ended with presentations, where we went over each redesign and got to know which content was cut, which design choices were made and most of all, how this redesign will reduce the emissions.

Reduce media size / use

In general, the use of images and videos was limited by all designs. One design team even opted for line drawings, which could be in vector or .png transparent format to reduce image size. Limiting (or compressing) images and videos is a great way to reduce the page weight, resulting in faster loading time as well as less time searching for the right information.

Sustainable by default

Although a lot of websites stayed ‘white’ by default, one team proposed using a permanent dark mode to increase energy efficiency. Another team made an alternate site that would show a range of the website that was seen as the most essential. On the top of the website, there was a disclaimer: “This website has been redesigned to reduce the CO2 impact — we’re now 90% lower than the average website. To see the original website, please click here”.

It is a great idea to have the visitor aware of sustainable choices on a website, and tell them that there is a choice to browse its content sustainable.

Limiting visual noise

Every team observed the mixed audiences the website caterers to. The Digital Society School website has the purpose to have people apply for the Digital Transformation Program, become a partner for a semester, read the research, enrol in one of the courses or participate in the annual Global Goals Jam. Three teams divided the website into two columns, where one is designated for courses and the other for either process or traineeship. The split would reduce the time visitors spend to find their required information as well as clean up the home page.

Unfortunately, we can not measure the emissions of the new proposals, but hopefully, it can fuel some discussions on a sustainable website. Below are the final designs by the teams. We would like to thank everybody for their participation and energy in making this course a meaningful learning experience for us all.
Distance Learning: How TextNow Is Helping Teachers Stay Connected (Pt 2)
By: Valeria K
Tags: Second Phone Number, Online Learning, Teachers, Distance Learning

In this unprecedented time, educators across the country are asking themselves two major questions:

How do I ensure that virtual learning is equitable? How do I communicate effectively with students and families at this time?

Typically, giving out your personal phone number is considered a big no-no in my field as it is viewed as unprofessional and inappropriate. Except, during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers are being asked — or, as in my case, required — to forget this rule. This new mandate made by my district led me to the TextNow app. Within seconds, my cell phone became a personal device and a professional one while still allowing me to maintain separation between these two parts of my quarantine life.

All I had to do was download the app and choose a number. With my new work number available, I began sharing it with my students via Google Classroom and their Gmail. That very day, multiple students reached out to me by phone call and text message seeking help with their virtual assignments. Additionally, I began making phone calls to the families of students who have not yet been online to do their virtual learning assignments. This was the greatest advantage of all. “Hello. This is Mrs. Malsbury from Passage Middle School. I wanted to reach out to see if there is anything your family needs right now.” Who would have thought that such a simple phrase would lead to huge sighs of relief, tears, and such an outpouring of appreciation?

I had multiple families share that they were in need of a laptop, internet access, and information about our meals-to-go program. Some days it is hard to feel like we are still making a difference, but every parent that I connected to the information and support they needed reminded me of that feeling we all have had in the classroom — and the one we are all desperate to feel again –when we are able to help a child finally understand a concept they have been struggling to grasp. This has led me to work towards providing a more equitable experience for my students and develop a strong line of communication for the remainder of the school year.

The silver lining to this whole experience of virtual learning is that I have discovered so many amazing digital tools that are not only valuable during this pandemic but going forward into the rest of my teaching career. Thanks TextNow, for allowing me to continue to be here for my students and their families.
My Two Cents on Online Learning
By: Jason Cyril Tajores
Tags: Online Learning, Quarantine, 21st Century Skills, Education, Online Learning Platform

Since most of the world is forced to isolation, institutions had to find alternative ways of delivering the services that are usually done through face-to-face interactions. One of such institutions is the education sector. With over 1.29 billion of the entire human population enrolled in primary and secondary schools, educational leaders are put under a lot of pressure to make a series of serious decisions to mitigate the effects of worldwide isolation, such as determining whether or not to pursue the most logical avenue to continue : online learning.

However, adopting an online learning paradigm and trying to fit in the content, competencies, training, and authentic assessment of conventional, face-to-face learning is not a walk in the park. The most difficult hindrance that schools need to overcome is the issue of accessibility.

Face-to-face learning is easier to implement and monitor since students and teachers do not need fancy equipment to deliver the desired content and achieve the target competency. All they need is a pen and paper, a marker and a whiteboard, and the class can be engaged in a visible, vibrant interaction that facilitates learning.

When learning becomes digital, this interaction becomes less and less evident. Learners and teachers are confined by the limitations of the tools available for them. Even with the phrase “21st Century Learning” getting more and more mainstream as curriculum designers re-imagine the traditional curricula, it is disappointing that educational technology is still inaccessible to the vast majority of learners. Computers and smartphones indeed have become relatively more affordable over the years, but internet connection — the heart of the 21st century — is still far from being truly accessible. In 2019, only 9% of the world has an online presence, and even this metric is greatly skewed towards developed countries and the very few in developing ones.

Knowledge is free, quality education is not. The structures that enable efficient and effective delivery of knowledge come at a price. Schools have to pay professionals to design curricula, give salaries to those who implement such curricula, invest in hardware and software, and pay internet service providers. The end-users themselves — the students — need hefty investments as well. Computers (including mobile phones) cost at least Php 10,000 (around 200 USD), which is not cheap. Add to that the recurring fee of an unstable internet connection.

But what choice do we have?
Will online education replace offline education in the future?
By: Kexin Wang
Tags: Online Casino, Online Learning, Online

As the coronavirus has made its way around the world, more than 160 countries have closed schools. Nearly 90% of the world’s student population is now out of class. In China, Singapore, Australia, and Sweden— and a few states in the U.S. — the school is still in.

Many people think that online education is very good, which can save a lot of time, and some people feel bad. Today, various online education apps, combined with elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and universities, host many free, paid courses. So, there is a question, will online education replace offline education in the future?

It’s like we asked, “whether future smartphones will replace laptops.” The essence of both is a computer, but the shape is different. In the case where two things are essentially the same, should one thing completely replace the other? I haven’t seen it yet.

Although online education can be transmitted more efficiently, education not only teaches the knowledge, but also has more interactions, and the interaction between these teachers and students needs a place. We know that the traditional way of education is to teach students and teachers face-to-face at school, but although online education eliminates this link, the need for teacher-student interaction still exists. Although this need for interaction is not necessarily indispensable, it cannot be solved by an app and mobile phone or program. There is room for improvement in online education for managing students, and offline education should also improve offline problems such as student sources. The future education industry should be a combination of online and offline development in parallel. Although the traditional offline education and training institutions are still the center of gravity of the education and training industry, online education is developing rapidly, and although there are still some problems that need to be improved urgently, with the changes of the times and the reform of educational technology, online education and training institutions will become the education industry An important part of the freshman.
8 POSSIBLE WAYS TO INCREASE THE CHANCE OF ACCA EXAM SUCCESS
By: Harsh Mark
Tags: Acca Singapore, Online Learning, Accounting, Acca Exam, Acca Course Online

The term ACCA refers to the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants. It is the most important course which has vast opportunities which are more professional. The importance of the course value is the opportunities that are available. The opportunities that are available are completely professional and also a very major role to be involved. In order to get a very good job the most important factor is to get passed in the examination which is particularly conducted for ACCA. So the best possible ways to pass in the ACCA exam is as follows:

Instead of making bookmarks always highlight the points which are more important. Go Online! The best ways are to study online through verified online course websites. Find the best website for the course which provides valuable methods of studying ways and the exam tips. Follow the portions and syllabus step by step and separate the subjects according to the complexity which helps you to differentiate and study. It is easy to understand when accompanied by friends who are strong in a particular subject which is a tough one for you to go through. Instead of just reading always work out the problems which help you in the exam perspectives. Learn more short cuts and problem-solving techniques through some of the best ACCA course online for example; is an online learning course for ACCA in Singapore which provides vast techniques and easy ways to crack the ACCA Exam. A day before the exam make sure you covered all the portions and worked on all the problems which will make the question paper familiar in the Exam. Get all the previous year question papers and solve each and every set of problems in that question paper in order to get out of the fear of failing the exam. It creates confidence while facing the exam.

So there are various steps and the techniques that make the ACCA exam an easy one to crack. Once you have cleared the ACCA Exam then the person is out for the greatest profession with the expected amount of salary. There is nothing called impossible to get passed it always depends on how you prepare for the exam.