Collaborate Disseminate
Although we have many types of networking equipment with many unique names, at their core they can usually be reduced to just a computer with some specific peripherals. This is …read more Continue reading Trying to Build Your Own Consumer-Grade Router in 2026
Recently [Jeff Geerling] has been tinkering with FireWire in order to use some older gear, which includes the use of a Raspberry Pi HAT called the Firehat. This provides a …read more Continue reading Cooking a Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT With Backfeeding
Although toasters should be among the most boring appliances in a household – with perhaps just a focus on making their toasting more deterministic rather than somewhere between ‘still frozen’ …read more Continue reading DOOM on a Fancy Smart Toaster
From laser cutters to 3D printers, having an exhaust duct at the back of a machine is a very common sight. However, these tend to be rather bulky, claiming many …read more Continue reading Flattening the Exhaust of a Laser Cutter to Save Space
It’s fair to say that the topic of so-called ‘AI coding assistants’ is somewhat controversial. With arguments against them ranging from code quality to copyright issues, there are many valid …read more Continue reading New Linux Kernel Rules Put the Onus on Humans for AI Tool Usage
Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the entire scope of us ingesting sensory information, the processing and …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Human Cognition and Decision Making in a Modern Age
After some water intrusion apparently killed one of [electronupdate]’s Amazon Blink Gen 3 cameras he took this opportunity to do a full teardown and analysis of all the major components. …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering an Amazon Blink Gen 3 Camera
Although the number of uses for a 2009-era Mac Mini aren’t very long, using them to run new-and-upcoming operating systems like Haiku on would seem to be an interesting use …read more Continue reading Trying to Install Haiku on a 2009 Mac Mini
Self-similar images are rather common, which are images in which the same image is repeated on a smaller scale somewhere within the image that one is looking at, something which …read more Continue reading The Complex Transformations Underlying MC Escher’s Works
A while back [Jack] came across a Taito arcade game that neither he nor any of his mates recognized. The game was Adventure Canoe and part of the collection of …read more Continue reading Making the Forgotten 1982 Game Adventure Canoe run on MAME