Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re into airplanes, you’ve probably had the experience of hearing an unusual aircraft and rushing outside to try and catch a glimpse of it, all while fumbling with a …read more Continue reading Make Your Ceiling Disappear With ADS-B and Short-Throw Projector
Solarpunk is all about combining that DIY hacker ethos with sustainability and renewable resources. Our usual PCB manufacturing methods, with their bevy of chemical baths and petrochemical resins aren’t exactly …read more Continue reading DIY Ceramic Circuit Boards Surely Count As Solarpunk
Operating systems are great things to have for general purpose computing, but sometimes they can just get in the way. There’s RAM overhead and processor cycles required for all that …read more Continue reading Game Dodecahedron Runs AArch64 Assembly
There are a lot of single board computers on the market these days, so you can be forgiven if you missed the LuckFox Lyra. Its main claim to fame seems …read more Continue reading Does Your Terminal Speak Morse? This One Does
We do sometimes go on about how absurdly powerful microcontrollers are these days, but this time it’s technically a microprocessor, not a microcontroller, at the heart of the build — …read more Continue reading STM32 Handheld Has OpenGL and all the Classics
If you were making a multi-limbed symmetric nightmare of a robot, where else would you look for a name but Greek Mythology? The team at Duke University that came up …read more Continue reading Classically-named Argus Robot Is Terminator Meets Tumbleweed
The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the …read more Continue reading Breaking Enigma with an FPGA, Just like at Bletchly Park
The ‘Cheap Yellow Display’, or CYD, is becoming a staple in these circles, and with good reason: just like the name says, it’s cheap, it has a display, and of …read more Continue reading Cheap Yellow Display with Boosted PSRAM Turned Snazzy Emulator Station
Plastics, oil, petrol– the modern world is entirely dependent on hydrocarbons. The good sources are slowly running low and supply is increasingly complicated by geopolitical factors we really don’t want …read more Continue reading Be Your Own Oil Company With Desktop Fischer-Tropsch Process
If you’re of a certain vintage, you have probably looked at some of the microcomputers on the market these days and thought “that would have been a decent workstation back …read more Continue reading ESP-Osito Eschews Retrocomputing for Modern Code on Modern, Equivalent Hardware