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Google introduced Android 5.0 Lollipop , the new version of the operating system that implements the Material Design and a breakthrough. Great news comes to Android lovers with the arrival of the latest OS: Android 5.0 Lollipop . Although this was not the only news from Google on this day, no doubt, for fans of the operating system, the presentation of the version that comes after Android KitKat was the most important. These are the top ten news of Android 5.0 Lollipop 1 Material Design The new structure of Android has a flatter design, more colorful and multi-layered, visually respond to your touch screen and is the most drastic change from Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The interface we know Android KitKat reach the next level with a smooth transition animations between applications and elevation for each of the areas of the screen. This allows each section of the screen can offer higher quality and appearance with larger, thanks to the shadows that would be having each of the layers in...

Welcome to the never ending saga of Andy and his reflow controllers. About a year ago I published a project writeup showing how I built a PID-based reflow controller. It featured a 640×360 graphical LCD from the Sony U5 Vivaz mobile phone and was all-surface mount. It worked well and continues to serve me well to this day but I always thought that there were improvements that I could make in several areas. Firstly, there’s no reason why it should have been all surface-mount. The LCD in particular has a 0.4mm connector that many people will find very hard to solder by hand. After all, presumably you’re building a reflow controller to help solve that very problem. Chicken and egg. [ ]