Collaborate Disseminate
While it’s currently the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it will inevitably get cold again. If you’re looking for a unique way of heating your workshop this year, …read more Continue reading 8-Bits and 1,120 Triodes
[Poking Technology] doesn’t think much of his new smartwatch. It is, by his admission, the cheapest possible smartwatch, coming in at about $3. It has very few useful features but …read more Continue reading $3 Smartwatch Can Run Python
Meshtastic is a way to build mesh networks using LoRa that is independent of cell towers, hot spots or traditional repeaters. It stands to reason that with an SDR and …read more Continue reading Decoding Meshtastic with GNU Radio
Have you ever read about something and thought, “Gee whiz! Why did I never think about that?” That was my reaction to reading about a feature commonly associated with Klipper …read more Continue reading 3D Printering: Adaptive Bed Leveling
For old-timers, CRTs — cathode ray tubes — were fixtures as kids sat in front of TVs watching everything from Howdy Doody to Star Trek. But there’s at least one …read more Continue reading All About CRTs
For old-timers, CRTs — cathode ray tubes — were fixtures as kids sat in front of TVs watching everything from Howdy Doody to Star Trek. But there’s at least one …read more Continue reading All About CRTs
It seems to make sense. If you have a 3D printer, you might wish you could just scan some kind of part and print it — sort of like a …read more Continue reading 3D Scanning, Phone Edition
[Ken Shirriff] likes to take chips apart and this time his target is an NFC chip used in Montreal transit system tickets. As you might expect, the tickets are tiny, …read more Continue reading Inside NFC
It is funny how sometimes things you think are bad turn out to be good in retrospect. Like many of us, when I was a kid, I was fascinated by …read more Continue reading The Book That Could Have Killed Me
If you are used to writing software for modern machines, you probably don’t think much about computing something like one divided by three. Modern computers handle floating point quite well. …read more Continue reading Fixed Point Math Exposed