Collaborate Disseminate
Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch control all sorts of …read more Continue reading Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them. However, many are tied to ugly cloud systems that …read more Continue reading IR Device Control That Lives Off The Cloud
These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However, you can build a …read more Continue reading Rust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console
The solar system is kind of hard to observe in motion all at once. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little model to look at, so you can see the …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Orrery Runs On A Single Motor
You can get all kinds of fancy lenses for modern cameras, with all sorts of mechanical and electronic wizardly to make them shoot better images. But what if you paired …read more Continue reading Adapting a 100-Year-Old Lens To A Modern Camera
Phones can be distracting objects if you’re not an enlightened master of the mental arts. Even just reading an email or glancing at your calendar can get you caught up …read more Continue reading Compact Calendar Display Reduces Phone Dependency
Back when phones used to ship with chargers in the box, you’d get a plugpack that could charge one device. Aftermarket manufacturers eventually started making chargers with four or five …read more Continue reading USB-C Charger Juices Up 100 Devices At Once
The Osmo Pocket 4 is a handheld gimballed camera that’s perfect for shooting running content on the go. However, it’s got a weird sort of form factor and is limited …read more Continue reading Making the Osmo Pocket 4 a More Serious Camera
The telephone was an invention that revolutionized human communication. No more did you have to physically courier a letter from one place to another, or send a telegram, or have …read more Continue reading How TTY Opened Up The Phones For The Hard of Hearing
DHCP is great for getting machines on the network with a minimum of fuss. However, it can also make remote administration a pain because you never know which IP you’re …read more Continue reading Network Scanner Finds Every Raspberry Pi