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One Book to Boot Them All

Somewhere in the universe, there’s a place that lists every x86 operating system...

Programmer’s Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions

Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 827: Yt-dlp, Sometimes You Can’t S...

This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Bashonly about yt-dlp, the audio/video do...

Supercon 2024: Rethinking Body Art With LEDs

Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying...

70 DIY Synths on One Webpage

If you want to dip your toes into the deep, deep water of synth DIY but don’t kn...

Australia’s Steady March Towards Space

The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a ...

The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare

Getting a look at the internals of a garden variety “wall wart” isn’t the sort o...

A Toothbrush Hacked, in Three Parts

It’s official, we’re living in the future. Certainly that’s the only explanation...

Why the LM741 Sucks

First of all, we’d like to give a big shout-out to [Afrotechmods]! After a long ...

An Elegant Writer for a More Civilized Age

One of the most exciting trends we’ve seen over the last few years is the rise o...

A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised

Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, an...

Malfunctional Timekeeping With The Vetinari Clock

Lord Vetinari from the Discworld series is known for many things, but perhaps mo...

Shrinking Blinky As Far As Possible

Many of us know the basic Blink Arduino sketch, or have coded similar routines o...

The Everlasting Hunt For The Loch Ness Monster

When a Loch Ness Monster story appears at the start of April, it pays to check t...

Philadelphia Maker Faire Returns This Weekend

While there’s still a vaguely robot-shaped hole in our heart from the loss of th...

On Egyptian Pyramids and Why It’s Definitely Aliens

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites ex...

Bringing Achievements To The Nintendo Entertainment System

Microsoft made gaming history when it developed Achievements and released them w...

Hybrid Mechanical Clock Shows it Both Ways

After seeing some of the interesting clock builds we’ve featured recently, [shiu...

Golang On The PS2

A great many PlayStation 2 games were coded in C++, and there are homebrew SDKs ...

Software Hacks Unlock Cheap Spectrometer

A spectrometer is one of those tools that many of us would love to have, but jus...

A Music Box Commanded By NFC Tags

[Luca Dentella] recently encountered a toy, which was programmed to read differe...

Levitating Lego Generator Runs On Air

[Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was...

Building a Sliding Tile Clock

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Pa...

Zink is Zero Ink — Sort Of

When you think of printing on paper, you probably think of an ink jet or a laser...

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