Collaborate Disseminate
Giving machines the ability to communicate nonverbally has real value, and [Drew Smith] clearly thinks your robot deserves better than an emoji. He shared a very interesting approach with his …read more Continue reading To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate The Neurochemistry
If you’re not aware, there is such a thing as adorable little three digit LCD 7-segment displays. They come in a ten-pin DIP package and are just begging to be …read more Continue reading How To Use Those Cute But Slightly Odd 7-Segment LCDs
[Simon Willison] ported the Moebuis 0.2B image inpainting model to run locally in a web browser. The web tool simply requires a user to provide an image, mark a section …read more Continue reading Browser-Based Image Inpainting Runs Locally, If One Doesn’t Mind A Big Download
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
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