Hack On Self: Quest System Basics <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>Whenever I play an RPG, whether it’s Fallout or Cyberpunk 2077, I complete every single quest available to me. The quests grab my attention in an unprecedented way – doesn’t

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Hack On Self: Quest System Basics

Whenever I play an RPG, whether it&#8217;s Fallout or Cyberpunk 2077, I complete every single quest available to me. The quests grab my attention i...

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Hack On Self: Quest System Basics

Whenever I play an RPG, whether it&#8217;s Fallout or Cyberpunk 2077, I complete every single quest available to me. The quests grab my attention i...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 307: CNC Tattoos, The Big Chill in Space, and PCB Things <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>The answer is: Elliot Williams, Al Williams, and a dozen or so great hacks. The question?  What do you get this week on the Hackaday podcast? This week’s hacks ran

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 307: CNC Tattoos, The Big Chill In Space, And PCB Things

The answer is: Elliot Williams, Al Williams, and a dozen or so great hacks. The question?  What do you get this week on the Hackaday podcast? This...

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 307: CNC Tattoos, The Big Chill In Space, And PCB Things

The answer is: Elliot Williams, Al Williams, and a dozen or so great hacks. The question?  What do you get this week on the Hackaday podcast? This...

This Week in Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, and Changes at Let’s Encrypt <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the

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This Week In Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, And Changes At Let&#8217;s Encrypt

There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn&#8217;t th...

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This Week In Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, And Changes At Let&#8217;s Encrypt

There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn&#8217;t th...

Split-Flap Clock Makes a Nice Side Quest in Larger Project <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Sometimes projects spawn related projects that take on a life of their own. That’s OK, especially when the main project is large and complex, In that case, side-quest projects provide

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Split-Flap Clock Makes A Nice Side Quest In Larger Project

Sometimes projects spawn related projects that take on a life of their own. That&#8217;s OK, especially when the main project is large and complex,...

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Split-Flap Clock Makes A Nice Side Quest In Larger Project

Sometimes projects spawn related projects that take on a life of their own. That&#8217;s OK, especially when the main project is large and complex,...

Quix Furniture for Modular Furniture Fun <img width="800" height="571" src=" alt=""/>If you’re someone who moves a lot, or just likes to change your decor, the limitations of conventional furniture can be a bit of a pain. Why not build your

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Quix Furniture For Modular Furniture Fun

If you&#8217;re someone who moves a lot, or just likes to change your decor, the limitations of conventional furniture can be a bit of a pain. Why ...

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Quix Furniture For Modular Furniture Fun

If you&#8217;re someone who moves a lot, or just likes to change your decor, the limitations of conventional furniture can be a bit of a pain. Why ...

RC Cars With First Person Video, All With An ESP32 <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Those little ESP32-CAM boards which mate the WiFi-enabled microcontroller with a small parallel-interface camera module have been with us for years, and while they are undeniably cool to play with,

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RC Cars With First Person Video, All With An ESP32

Those little ESP32-CAM boards which mate the WiFi-enabled microcontroller with a small parallel-interface camera module have been with us for years...

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RC Cars With First Person Video, All With An ESP32

Those little ESP32-CAM boards which mate the WiFi-enabled microcontroller with a small parallel-interface camera module have been with us for years...

Solid Tips for Designing Assistive Technology (Or Anything Else, Really) <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Do you make things, and have you got almost ten minutes to spare? If not, make the time because this video by [PrintLab] is chock-full of healthy and practical design tips.

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Solid Tips For Designing Assistive Technology (Or Anything Else, Really)

Do you make things, and have you got almost ten minutes to spare? If not, make the time because this video by [PrintLab] is chock-full of healthy ...

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Solid Tips For Designing Assistive Technology (Or Anything Else, Really)

Do you make things, and have you got almost ten minutes to spare? If not, make the time because this video by [PrintLab] is chock-full of healthy ...

T1 is a RISC-V Cray <img width="800" height="533" src=" alt=""/>The crux of most supercomputers is the ability to operate on many pieces of data at once — something video cards are good at, too. Enter T1 (short for Torrent-1),

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T1 Is A RISC-V Cray

The crux of most supercomputers is the ability to operate on many pieces of data at once &#8212; something video cards are good at, too. Enter T1 (...

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T1 Is A RISC-V Cray

The crux of most supercomputers is the ability to operate on many pieces of data at once &#8212; something video cards are good at, too. Enter T1 (...

Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter <img width="800" height="386" src=" alt=""/>As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine.

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Running Doom On An Apple Lightning To HDMI Adapter

As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just ...

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Running Doom On An Apple Lightning To HDMI Adapter

As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just ...

A Great Use for AI: Wasting Scammers Time! <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that acts like a 78-year-old

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A Great Use For AI: Wasting Scammers Time!

We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that act...

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A Great Use For AI: Wasting Scammers Time!

We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that act...

How Do We Deal With Microplastics In The Ocean? <img width="800" height="526" src=" alt=""/>Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful contaminant that we really ought to do something about. They’re particularly abundant in the aquatic environment,

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How Do We Deal With Microplastics In The Ocean?

Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful contaminant that we really ought to do something about. They&#821...

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How Do We Deal With Microplastics In The Ocean?

Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful contaminant that we really ought to do something about. They&#821...

Lorem Ipsum 36? Dolor Sit Amet Keyboard! <img width="800" height="441" src=" alt="A 36-key monoblock split keyboard with three thumb keys on each side."/>You know, it’s a tale as old as custom mechanical keyboards. [penkia] couldn’t find any PCBs with 36 keys and Gateron low-profile switch footprints, so they made their own and

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Lorem Ipsum 36? Dolor Sit Amet Keyboard!

You know, it&#8217;s a tale as old as custom mechanical keyboards. [penkia] couldn&#8217;t find any PCBs with 36 keys and Gateron low-profile switc...

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Lorem Ipsum 36? Dolor Sit Amet Keyboard!

You know, it&#8217;s a tale as old as custom mechanical keyboards. [penkia] couldn&#8217;t find any PCBs with 36 keys and Gateron low-profile switc...

A Tube, The Wooden Kind <img width="800" height="433" src=" alt=""/>While we aren’t heavy-duty woodworkers, we occasionally make some sawdust as part of a project, and we admire people who know how to make wood and do what they want.

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A Tube, The Wooden Kind

While we aren&#8217;t heavy-duty woodworkers, we occasionally make some sawdust as part of a project, and we admire people who know how to make woo...

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A Tube, The Wooden Kind

While we aren&#8217;t heavy-duty woodworkers, we occasionally make some sawdust as part of a project, and we admire people who know how to make woo...

This Thermometer Rules! <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>A PCB ruler is a common promotional item, or design exercise. Usually they have some sample outlines and holes as an aid to PCB design, but sometimes they also incorporate

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This Thermometer Rules!

A PCB ruler is a common promotional item, or design exercise. Usually they have some sample outlines and holes as an aid to PCB design, but sometim...

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This Thermometer Rules!

A PCB ruler is a common promotional item, or design exercise. Usually they have some sample outlines and holes as an aid to PCB design, but sometim...

Making Products for Fun and (Probably No) Profit <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="A picture of a stainless steel ring with a phillips screwdriver bit protruding from it sitting slightly askance atop a matching ring with a phillips head cut out like that of a screw. They are the same size so they can mesh when placed together."/>If you’re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those things. If you’re

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Making Products For Fun And (Probably No) Profit

If you&#8217;re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those thing...

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Making Products For Fun And (Probably No) Profit

If you&#8217;re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those thing...

Investigating Electromagnetic Magic in Obsolete Machines <img width="800" height="559" src=" alt=""/>Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we take for granted nowadays. Motor positioning, for example,

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Investigating Electromagnetic Magic In Obsolete Machines

Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we tak...

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Investigating Electromagnetic Magic In Obsolete Machines

Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we tak...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 819: Session, It’s all Abot the Metadata <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jeffries! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize? And why the cryptocurrency angle? Listen to find out!

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 819: Session, It&#8217;s All Abot The Metadata

This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jefferys! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize...

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 819: Session, It&#8217;s All Abot The Metadata

This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jefferys! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize...

Investigating Why Animals Sleep: From Memory Sorting to Waste Disposal <img width="800" height="533" src=" has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and

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Investigating Why Animals Sleep: From Memory Sorting To Waste Disposal

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the &#8216;why&#8217; of sleep, along with the &#8216;how&#8217;. We human anim...

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Investigating Why Animals Sleep: From Memory Sorting To Waste Disposal

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the &#8216;why&#8217; of sleep, along with the &#8216;how&#8217;. We human anim...

Breaking: USPS Halts Inbound Packages From China and Hong Kong <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would suspend acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Breaking: USPS Halts Inbound Packages From China And Hong Kong Posts

Update: The USPS has now resumed acceptance of inbound packages from China. According to the updated Service Alert, they are currently working with...

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Breaking: USPS Halts Inbound Packages From China And Hong Kong Posts

Update: The USPS has now resumed acceptance of inbound packages from China. According to the updated Service Alert, they are currently working with...

Telling Time Used to be a Ball <img width="800" height="534" src=" alt=""/>If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just

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Telling Time Used To Be A Ball

If you watch the New Year&#8217;s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might ass...

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Telling Time Used To Be A Ball

If you watch the New Year&#8217;s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might ass...