Collaborate Disseminate
After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays work. Although VFDs are …read more Continue reading Vacuum Fluorescent Displays Explained
After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, many of the associated hardware became effectively obsolete. This led to quite …read more Continue reading Converting a Nebra Cryptocurrency Miner To a Meshcore Repeater
Although already having entered the territory of ‘retro gaming’, the Sony PlayStation 3 remains a notoriously hard to emulate game console. Much of this is to blame on its unique …read more Continue reading PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Can Almost Play Three-Quarters of PS3 Games
Akin to the razor-and-blades model, capsule-based coffee machines are an endless grind of overpriced pods and cheaply made machines that you’re supposed to throw out and buy a new one …read more Continue reading Repair and Reverse-Engineering of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines
Espressif has unveiled its latest major chip in the form of the ESP32-E22. Officially referred to as a Radio Co-Processor (RCP), it’s intended to be used via its PCIe 2.1 …read more Continue reading Espressif Introduces the ESP32-E22 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth Co-Processor
How do you go about making a mirror with 128 segments, each of which can be independently angled? That was the question that a certain bloke over at [Time Sink …read more Continue reading How to use Tiny Open Loop Actuators for a Living Mirror
Although arguably redundant on a typical computer keyboard, the idea of embedding small screens into the buttons on devices like audio production gear that often have so many buttons can …read more Continue reading SoundSlab: How to Make a Synthesizer With All the Button Screens
Washington State’s House Bill 2321 is currently causing a bit of an uproar, as it seeks to add blocking technologies to 3D printers, in order to prevent them from printing …read more Continue reading Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers
In an update video by [Hacker University] to an earlier video on ESP32-C3 Super Mini development boards that feature a Flash-less version of this MCU, the question of adding your …read more Continue reading What to do With a Flash-less ESP32-C3 Super Mini Board?
The fun part about world records is that anyone can take a swing at breaking them, which is what [Luke Maximo Bell] has been doing with the drone speed record …read more Continue reading Beating the World Record for Fastest Flying Drone Once Again