Collaborate Disseminate
Integrated electronic modules like counters and displays are convenient and space-saving, which may also make them easy to take for granted. [Nagy Krisztián] demonstrates this by making three very different …read more Continue reading Three Different Digital Counters To Remind Us How Good We Have It
Valve has always designed hacker-friendly hardware, and in that spirit, [NaKyle Wright] released Inkterface, a design for an E-ink faceplate to fit the recently released Steam Machine. As far as …read more Continue reading Make a DIY E-ink Faceplate For Valve’s Steam Machine
Researchers [Charles Ye], [Jasmine Cui], and [Dylan Hadfield-Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction sources because they prioritize writing style …read more Continue reading Chain-of-Thought Spoofing Targets Reasoning AI Models
[Brian] had an absolute monster of a PCB with thousands of nets to be routed, the kind of design that stopped traditional routers in their tracks. It would take months …read more Continue reading GPU-Accelerated Autorouter Handles Monstrous PCB Designs
Hacks don’t have to be practical but it helps if they are educational or clever or amusing, as [Ray Foss] demonstrates with his auto-docking Steam Controller. It’s an open-source web …read more Continue reading Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself To Its Charge Puck
The NOISFERATU is an open source generative textural sound synthesizer, or as creator [Robert Heel] puts it, “a sound designer’s dream and audiophile’s worst nightmare”. NOISEFERATU offers 45 different sound …read more Continue reading Bite Into Strange Sounds With NOISEFERATU
It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he working hard to bring HamsterOS to retrocomputing …read more Continue reading HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy
Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how …read more Continue reading Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI
[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was secretly developed alongside …read more Continue reading Alan Turing’s Remarkable, Nearly-Forgotten Voice Encryption Device
[Stefan] of CNC Kitchen has an informative video describing his experiences with trying to cleanly laser-mark 3D printed plastics using different methods, and it also happens to be a fantastic …read more Continue reading All The Different Lasers, And How Well They Mark 3D Prints