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Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms.…
David Bushell set out to build his own browser based text editor. His first attempt drew everything to a <canvas> element at 60 to 120 frames per second. It worked, but canvas gives nothing for free: no text selection,…
The WT | Wearable Technologies Conference is happening this month on the 15the and 16th. Interested to see what’s to come in the wearable world. The WT | Wearable Technologies Conference is the world’s leading event for…
James Bowman has added 3D board previews to cuflow, his Python-based PCB design tool, and wrote about it on the Excamera Labs Substack. When he designed the TermDriver hardware, parts showed up only as silkscreen…
As fun as mucking about with simulated environments in a laboratory is, at some point you have to do those field tests to demonstrate that your prototype actually works in …read more
Simon Willison built a GeoJSON map viewer. He needed it while helping gather maps of local political boundaries for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council. The requirement was simple:…
The Computer History Museum posted a 15 second short on YouTube featuring the sounds of Nintendo’s first home gaming console. Not game sounds but sounds as one uses the machine. The console started out in Japan as the…
The Transformers Wiki keeps a detailed entry on Gold Plastic Syndrome (GPS), a fan term for plastic that decomposes and then crumbles to bits under almost no force. It differs from ordinary stress fracturing. Normal…
Weedout is a Safari extension that removes videos YouTube has labeled “Made with AI” from what you see. Instead of covering them with a warning screen, it takes them out of the home feed, search results, related videos…
Maya Posch, writing at Hackaday, covers a Science Advances paper from Ke Li and colleagues on a fungal platform for living textiles. Most fabric is dead tissue, or was never part of an organism at all. This work falls…
This week Jonathan chats with Benjamin Samuels of Trail of Bits! The conversation focuses on Patch the Planet, a new initiative to help Open Source projects deal with the fallout …read more
If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video . This week’s pick is the Adafruit I2S 3W Stereo Speaker Bonnet! Watch the video to find out about the…
Apple started informing developers today that universal macOS apps on the Mac App Store that require macOS 13 or later can now drop support for Intel-based Macs. In the email, Apple says: We’re reaching out to let you…
UPDATE GUIDE: Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini The Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini is part of our series of “Sparkle Motion” boards, that are our attempt to make the best small WLED-friendly smart LED driving board in the…
Alex Honnold is one of the TIME Trailblazers, image via Wikipedia Commons: Alex Honnold in 2023 in Antarctica by Christopher Michel TIME Magazine has released a list of their TIME Trailblazers: Designing and Making the…
Abhishek Prakash at It’s FOSS wrote up a way to fix a Raspberry Pi that can no longer reach your network: edit the WiFi settings straight from the microSD card. This is handy when the router changed, the SSID and…
Arjun Krishna Lal, writing at TechSpot, describes how he got Morrowind, Duke Nukem 3D, and Serious Sam: The First Encounter running natively on an iPhone without knowing how to code. He used AI coding agents and a $100…
Believe it or not its that time of year and sweater weather is just around the corner. Its never too early to start knitting up a pair of conductive mittens for when the seasons change. Have you missed a call because…
Jean-Luc Aufranc writes at CNX Software that XyphroLabs has released the third revision of its UsbGpib adapter, now called GPIBee. The adapter connects legacy GPIB/IEEE-488 test instruments to modern computers. V3 adds…
Babbage, writing at The Chip Letter, re-ran a reader poll asking where RISC-V will be in 20 years. The first poll ran in August 2023, during a series of posts on the architecture. It was framed around a line from Krste…
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