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FLOSS Weekly Episode 824: Gratuitous Navel Gazing

This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Doc Searls about SCaLE and Personal AI! W...

FlyingCam is a Sweet DIY Webcam on a Stick

Imagine you want to monitor a pot on the stove to see if it’s boiling over for j...

Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection: the Algorithms...

More and more of the ‘smart’ gadgets like watches and phones that we carry aroun...

Some Useful Notes On The 6805-EC10 Addressable RGB LED

LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RG...

I2C Sniffing Comes to the Bus Pirate 5

While the Bus Pirate 5 is an impressive piece of hardware, the software is argua...

Classy Paper Tape Reader Complements Homebrew Retrocomp...

If you were one of the earliest of early adopters in the home computing revoluti...

Lies, Damned Lies, And IGBT Datasheets

We have all seen optimistic claims for electronic products which fail to match t...

How To Use LLMs For Programming Tasks

[Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a...

A Magic Eye Tube Does All The Work In This Kit

We’re used to low cost parts and a diversity of electronic functions to choose f...

A Deep Dive Into Canon Autofocus Lenses

Although taken for granted these days, autofocus (AF) used to be a premium featu...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Batwing Typewriter

[Alex] of YouTube channel [EastMakes] wrote into tell me about his fantastic QWE...

Tiny Laptop Gets a New Case and an Unlocking

Unless you’ve got an especially small lap, calling the Toshiba Libretto a laptop...

TrapC: A C Extension For the Memory Safety Boogeyman

In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groun...

Josephine Cochrane Invented the Modern Dishwasher — In ...

Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed h...

Homebrew Traffic Monitor Keeps Eyes on the Streets

How many cars go down your street each day? How fast were they going? What about...

Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio

There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the ...

Satellite Imagery You Can Play With

Satellite imagery is in the news right now, but not all satellite constellations...

What’s Wrong With This Antenna Tuner?

[Tech Minds] built one of those cheap automatic antenna tuners you see everywher...

Solar-Powered E-Reader With No Buttons

Modern e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle are incredible pieces of engineering,...

Freeing Windows

There have been several attempts to make an unencumbered version of Windows. Rea...

Conservationists Are Flying Microlites To Teach Birds H...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first la...

The ESP32 Bluetooth Backdoor That Wasn’t

Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of...

Inexpensive Repairable Laptops, With Apple Style

Despite a general lack of real-world experience, many teenagers are overly confi...

You Are Already Traveling at the Speed of Light

Science fiction authors and readers dream of travelling at the speed of light, b...

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