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The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to …read more Continue reading On 3D Scanners and Giving Kinects a New Purpose In Life
Recently [Faith Ekstrand] announced on Mastodon that Mesa was updating its contributor guide. This follows a recent AI slop incident where someone submitted a massive patch to the Mesa project …read more Continue reading Mesa Project Adds Code Comprehension Requirement After AI Slop Incident
Theoretically USB-C is a pretty nifty connector, but the reality is that it mostly provides many exciting new ways to make your device not work as expected. With the gory …read more Continue reading Segger’s Awkward USB-C Issue With the J-Link Compact Debugger
Can you play DOOM in Discord? At first glance, that may seem rather nonsensical, as Discord is a proprietary chat service and neither a hardware device nor something else that …read more Continue reading Playing DOOM In Discord With a Special Image URL
When Raspberry Pi released the Pi 500, as essentially an RPi 5 integrated into a chiclet keyboard, there were rumors based on the empty spots on the PCB that a …read more Continue reading The New Raspberry Pi 500+: Better Gaming with Less Soldering Required
Perpetual motion devices are either a gag, a scam, or as in the case of this particular toy that [Big Clive] bought on AliExpress, a rather fascinating demonstration of a …read more Continue reading Surprisingly Refined Perpetual Motion Device Teardown
For the past two-and-half years Canadian consumer testing outfit RTINGS has been running an accelerated aging experiment across a large number of TVs available to a North-American audience. In their …read more Continue reading RTINGS 10-Year Equivalent TV Longevity Update With Many Casualties
Until the 2000s vacuum tubes practically ruled the roost. Even if they had surrendered practically fully to semiconductor technology like integrated circuits, there was no escaping them in everything from …read more Continue reading The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised
What do you do when you find a ISA Sound Blaster 2.0 card in a pile of scrap? Try to repair the damage on it to give it a second …read more Continue reading Reviving a Scrapped Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA Soundcard
It’s becoming somewhat of a running gag that any device or object will be made ‘smart’ these days, whether it’s a phone, TV, refrigerator, home thermostat, headphones or glasses. This …read more Continue reading Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and the New Glassholes