Collaborate Disseminate
What’s the fastest way to master console stuff like screen or emacs? Force yourself to use it exclusively, of course. But maybe you’d be tempted to cheat with a desktop. …read more Continue reading Paper Pi Is an Ergonomic Cyberdeck Meant for Thumbs
16Just when we thought we’d seen the peak of ergonomic, split keyboards, along comes [Peter Lyons] with the Squeezebox — an adjustable, column-staggered, streamlined beauty with 21 keys per hand. …read more Continue reading Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Keycaps
Is there anything more satisfying than building a useful machine from mostly junk? We think not. [ke4mcl] is a big fan of reusing and repurposing things before settling for the …read more Continue reading Woofer-Based Parts Cleaner Bounces to the Beat
The other day, I saw this gigantic mutant strawberry on reddit that looked like it had either been growing in a radiation zone, hitting the gym regularly, or sprinkled with …read more Continue reading The Fascinating World of Fasciation
If there’s one bright spot on the blight that is this pandemic, it’s got to be all the extra time we’re spending with our pets. Dogs especially love that we’re …read more Continue reading Auto Ball Launcher Will Be Your Dog’s New Best Friend
Say what you will about office life: there were definitely some productivity perks, but the coffee is much better at home. Like many of us, [Pierre] has been working from …read more Continue reading You Won’t Believe How Much Tech is Hiding in this Desk
Now why didn’t we think of this? While building a dactyl manuform — a semi-ergonomic split keyboard — [dapperrogue] had the life-changing epiphany that keyboards can be any shape or …read more Continue reading This Pineapple Keyboard is the Bomb
We all have too much stock of one component or another. Maybe you have more audio pots than you know what to do with, or maybe it’s zener diodes. For …read more Continue reading Toggle Switch Puzzle Boggles the Mind, Opens the Box
OpenSCAD is a fantastic free tool for 3D modeling, but it’s far less intuitive to use for non-programmers than mouse-driven programs such as Tinkercad. Powerful as it may be, the …read more Continue reading Guide to Mastering OpenSCAD Costs Roughly the Same as OpenSCAD
We speak from experience when we say that making pinball targets is harder than you might think. The surface area of the part of the ball that touches is oh-so-small, …read more Continue reading Three Ways to Detect the Silver Ball