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Microcontrollers today are much more powerful and much more capable than the 8051s from back in the day. Now, they have awesome peripherals and USB device interfaces. It’s about time a slightly more ...

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If its done in Javascript, it becomes trivial to short circuit the timer or just enable the continue button with a click of a bookmarklet so you do not have to wait. The same concept applies when ...