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[ombates] shares a step-by-step method for making a conductive bio-string from scratch, no fancy equipment required. She demonstrates using it to create a decorative top with touch-sensitive parts, controlling animations …read more Continue reading Make DIY Conductive, Biodegradable String Right In Your Kitchen
[Simon] wrote in to let us know about DingPong, his handheld portable Pong console. There’s a bit more to it than meets the eye, however. Consider for a moment that …read more Continue reading Handheld Console Plays Original Pong With Modern E-Waste
Sometimes we come across a wild idea that really tries to re-imagine things, and re-conceiving wearable computing as a distributed system of “fiber computers” embedded into textiles is definitely that. …read more Continue reading Wearable Computing Goes Woven, Wireless, and Washable
Cloudflare has gotten more active in its efforts to identify and block unauthorized bots and AI crawlers that don’t respect boundaries. Their solution? AI Labyrinth, which uses generative AI to …read more Continue reading Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth Wants Bad Bots To Get Endlessly Lost
A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a …read more Continue reading Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s
Do you like high-detail 3D models intended for resin printing, but wish you could more easily print them on a filament-based FDM printer? Good news, because [Jacob] of Painted4Combat shared …read more Continue reading Make Fancy Resin Printer 3D Models FDM-Friendly
[Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a large language models (LLM) to help write code. If you have wondered just what the …read more Continue reading How To Use LLMs For Programming Tasks
Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had …read more Continue reading Josephine Cochrane Invented the Modern Dishwasher — In 1886
[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries …read more Continue reading The Pentium Processor’s Innovative (and Complicated) Method of Multiplying by Three, Fast
Lucid dreaming is the state of becoming aware one is dreaming while still being within the dream. To what end? That awareness may allow one to influence the dream itself, …read more Continue reading The Road to Lucid Dreaming Might be Paved With VR