Collaborate Disseminate
3D printing has had its time to spread its wings into the everyday home, yet many of those homes lack the proper ventilation to prevent the toxic VOCs from escaping. …read more Continue reading A Smart Printer Enclosure for the Open Source World
Wikipedia describes Freenet as “a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication,” released in the year 2000. “Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke,” Wikipedia adds. (And in 2000 … Continue reading New Freenet Network Launches, Along With ‘River’ Group Chat
Reading analog clocks is a pretty straightforward skill to learn. However, if you’ve already learned to read and don’t want to pick up the extra skill, a word clock is …read more Continue reading Building a Neatly Framed Word Clock
Long-time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and start-ups for a new article on AI-assisted programming. It’s title?
“Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It… Continue reading Will AI Bring ‘the End of Computer Programming As We Know It’?
If a zipper breaks, a 3D printer might not be the first tool one reaches for — but it’s more feasible than one might think. [MisterJ]’s zipper slider replacement is …read more Continue reading This Printed Zipper Repair Requires No Unsewing
It’s America’s first large-scale offshore wind project, reports WBUR — enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts from 62 offshore wind turbines generating 800 megawatts.
But it took a while… The plant’s first construction de… Continue reading America’s First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction
“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessor
Hampered by a nea… Continue reading How a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’
“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessor
Hampered by a nea… Continue reading How a Raspberry Pi Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’
[idealdealy] had a problem. GNU Radio Companion was proving to be a powerful tool, but it just didn’t look… cool enough. The solution? A custom bit of software called PimpMyGRC, designed …read more Continue reading GNU Radio Gets a Makeover With PimpMyGRC
Plug-in (or “balcony”) solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a home’s electrical outlet, generating enough electricity to power a refrigerator or microwave whi… Continue reading Are U.S. Utilities Trying to Delay Easy-to-Use Solar ‘Balcony’ Panels?