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This Week in Security: OpenSSH, JumbledPath, and RANsacked

OpenSSH has a newly fixed pair of vulnerabilities, and while neither of them are...

A New 8-bit CPU for C

It is easy to port C compilers to architectures that look like old minicomputers...

Acoustic Engine Harnesses the Power of Sound

If you think sonic booms from supersonic aircraft are a nuisance, wait until the...

3D Print Yourself A Split Flap Display

Split flap displays! They’re mechanical, clickety-clackity, and largely commerci...

Microsoft (Again) Claims Topological Quantum Computing ...

As the fundamental flaw of today’s quantum computers, improving qubit stability ...

Open-Source Random Numbers

Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of...

DIY Yagi Antenna Sends LoRa Signals Farther

LoRa gear can be great for doing radio communications in a light-weight and low-...

UNIX Archaeology Turns Up 1972 “V2 Beta”

In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifa...

Pico Gets a Speed Bump

The release notes for the 2.1.1 Raspberry Pi Pico SDK have a late holiday presen...

Microwave Motion Detector Notifies Your Smart Phone

Your garden variety motion detector uses IR, but these days, there are fancier t...

You’ve Got All Year To Print This Marble Machine Orname...

Most Christmas ornaments just hang there and look pretty. [Sean Hodgins] decided...

Reconstructing 3D Objects With a Tiny Distance Sensor

There are a whole bunch of different ways to create 3D scans of objects these da...

Water Jets Will Carve Your Pumpkin

Carving pumpkins by hand is hot, sweaty, messy work, and a great way to slice yo...

Add a Little WOPR to Your Server Rack

Like so many of us, [aforsberg] found themselves fascinated with the WOPR comput...

Pulsed Deposition Points a Different Path to DIY Semico...

While not impossible, replicating the machines and processes of a modern semicon...

The US Military’s Unsecured UFO Satellites and Their Us...

Something that you generally don’t expect as a North-America-based enthusiast, i...

Homebrew CPU Gets a Beautiful Rotating Cube Demo

[James Sharman] designed and built his own 8-bit computer from scratch using TTL...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 821: Rocky Linux

This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Rocky Linux with Gregory Kurtzer and Krista Bu...

Retrotechtacular: Yamming CRT Yokes

Those of us who worked in TV repair shops, back when there was such a thing, wil...

Be Careful What You Ask For: Voice Control

We get it. We also watched Star Trek and thought how cool it would be to talk to...

In a World Without USB…

It is easy to forget that many technology juggernauts weren’t always the only ga...

MIT Demonstrates Fully 3D Printed, Active Electronic Co...

One can 3D print with conductive filament, and therefore plausibly create passiv...

Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2) Brings Useful Parts and...

OpenSCAD has a lot of fans around these parts — if you’re unaware, it’s essentia...

Vacuum Forming With 3D Printed Moulds And Sheets

Vacuum forming is perhaps one of the less popular tools in the modern maker arse...

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