Collaborate Disseminate
McDonald’s recently announced that it will be scrapping the voice-assistant which it has installed at over 100 of its drive-throughs after a two-year trial run. In the email that was …read more Continue reading McDonald’s Terminates Its Drive-Through Ordering AI Assistant
The term ‘Social Media’ may give off a benign vibe, suggesting that it’s a friendly place where everyone is welcome to be themselves, yet reality has borne out that it …read more Continue reading The US Surgeon General’s Case for a Warning Label on Social Media
Modern lithium-ion battery packs for cordless power tools contain an incredible amount of energy, which necessitates that they come with a range of safeties. Although it’s good when the battery …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Makita Batteries To Revive Them
As humanity’s furthest reach into the Universe so far, the two Voyager spacecraft’s well-being is of utmost importance to many. Although we know that there will be an end to …read more Continue reading Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments
Voxels are effectively like 3D pixels, and they form an integral part of what is commonly referred to as a ‘retro 3D’ look, with pixelated edges sharp enough to cut …read more Continue reading Easy Retro 3D Look With Voxel Displacement Renderer
In the world of lambda calculus programming languages there are many ways to express the terms, which is why we ended up with such an amazing range of programming languages, …read more Continue reading Forsp: A Forth & Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
There are a lot of oscilloscopes from around the 1990s which are still very much desirable today, such as the Tektronix TDS 744A which [DiodesGoneWild] got his grubby mitts on. …read more Continue reading TDS 744A Scope Teardown Fixes Dodgy Channel
Last year [Jimmy] got a request from a customer ([Dave]) to help convert a 1998 Nissan Frontier pickup into an electric drive vehicle, with a crashed 2019 Nissan Leaf providing …read more Continue reading From Nissan ICE Pickup to BEV With Nissan Leaf Heart
Alibaba’s EMO (or Emote Portrait Alive) framework is a recent entry in a series of attempts to generate a talking head using existing audio (spoken word or vocal audio) and …read more Continue reading EMO: Alibaba’s Diffusion Model-Based Talking Portrait Generator
One exciting feature of hardware development involving MCUs and FPGAs is that you all too often need specific tools to program them, with [Doug Brown] suffering a price tag aneurysm …read more Continue reading Fixing Issues With Knockoff Altera USB Blasters