Collaborate Disseminate
Twas the night before Christmas, and because I decided to make everyone’s presents myself this year, I’m still working like mad to get everything done before the big deadline. Why …read more Continue reading A Hacker’s Christmas Story
Wouldn’t it be great if you could keep all of your small Internet-connected hacks up to date with a single codebase? A couple of weeks ago, we wrote up a …read more Continue reading GitHub ESP32 OTA Updates, Now in MicroPython Flavor
The demoscene never ceases to amaze. Back in the mid-80s, people wouldn’t just hack software to remove the copy restrictions, but would go the extra mile and add some fun …read more Continue reading Yesterday’s Future is Brighter Today
Sam Mulvey built his own radio station in Tacoma, WA. Is there a better way to meld ham radio practice with a colossal number of DIY electrical and computer projects? …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Sam Mulvey Shows You How To FM Radio
What’s the strangest wheel? The omniwheel. Unless you could whegs – “wheel legs” – as wheels. They’re pretty esoteric, but have their What happens when you mash up the two …read more Continue reading Omniwhegs are Awesome Times Two
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Adobe released the source code of PostScript v0.10 to the Computer History Museum. But before you ask, we tried and it won’t compile with GCC out …read more Continue reading After 40 Years, Adobe Releases PostScript Source v0.10 for Posterity
Last week, I wrote about cargo culting in a much more general context, so this week I’m going to come clean. The file that had me thinking about the topic …read more Continue reading Fossil Files: My .Emacs
I have no idea how true the stories are, but legend has it that when supplies were dropped on some Melanesian islands during WWII, some locals took to replicating runway …read more Continue reading Cargo Culting and Buried Treasure
In recent times, the “staycation” became a popular alternative to forays far afield: you could take time off and enjoy your local surroundings without having to get stamps in your …read more Continue reading I Need a Hackation
Last week, the world’s largest electronics trade fair took place in Munich, so I had to attend. Electronica is so big that it happens only once every two years and …read more Continue reading A Hacker Walks Into a Trade Show: Electronica 2022