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OuijaCNC

Spooky season is officially upon us. Check out this self-playing Ouija board built by one of our colleagues. The post OuijaCNC appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

Source: Raspberry Pi News Kat Shann
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ESP Friends

Language English ESP32ESP32-C3ESP32-C6ESP32-DevKitS(-R)ESP32-H2ESP32-S2ESP32-S3ESP8266ESP8684ESP32 (*)ESP32-C6-MINI-1ESP32-H2-MINI-1/1UESP32-S2-MINI-1/1UESP32-S3-MINI-1/1UESP8266 LegacyESP8266-DevKitSESP8684-MINI-1/1UESP…

Source: Espressif News Anonymous
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A 1982 Modem for $100

[Dave Farquhar] takes a walk down memory lane about the Commodore 1600 VICModem, perhaps the first phone modem to sell for less than $100. Commodore, of course, was famous for …read more

Source: Hackaday Al Williams
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Raspberry Pi Halloween Wise Cracking skull

Raspberry Pi Halloween Costume Detector Build a wise cracking skull to MC your Halloween costume party. This project uses a Raspberry Pi 5 paired with a NoIR PiCamera and speaker bonnet. The Pi runs a Python script with…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More Valves

When it comes to internal combustion engines (ICEs), it’s generally accepted that each cylinder doesn’t have more valves to let in a fresh fuel mixture and to exhaust the aftermath …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
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A Modern Smalltalk

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, and it hasn’t spread as well as some others. But it …read more

Source: Hackaday Al Williams
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How Britain Narrowly Escaped a Grid Blackout in June 2026

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this summer. On June 23rd, the grid frequency dropped to 49.657 …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Handwriting to pen plotting

Daniel Catt built a markdown to handwriting tool, written up in his newsletter at newsletter.revdancatt.com. He runs a Bantam Tools NextDraw 8511 pen plotter driven by Kitty, his AI assistant, which writes out his…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
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A dog’s paw print was found in a 3,700-year-old brick

Andrew Paul, writing at Popular Science, reports on a Bronze Age mud brick in Turkey that carries a dog’s paw print. The find came from Tavşanlı Höyük, a mound site about 100 miles south of Istanbul that covers nearly…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
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Rolling Stone: the 200 greatest rock songs of the 21st century

Jason Kottke pointed to Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 greatest rock songs of the 21st century so far, writing about it on kottke.org. The top pick is “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Kottke says he cannot argue with it.…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
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Patch Commodore 64 Kernal Roms to remap keyboard

Dave VW has posted a new way to remap the Commodore 64 keyboard, writing at Tech with Dave. Earlier remapping drivers loaded into lower BASIC RAM at a fixed address and vanished on restart. The keyboard tables actually…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
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A magnetic lock opens by magic

Stephen Cass built a lockbox that opens only when the right gesture is traced with a magnet, and wrote it up for IEEE Spectrum. The sensor is SparkFun’s $100 magnetic imaging tile, a small-run board based on work by…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
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A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive

Jason Kottke, writing at kottke.org, notes that items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive are headed to auction early next year. The lots include Jack Torrance’s axe and the sisters’ blue dresses from The Shining.…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware AI

doomformer: neural networks computed inside DOOM maps

doomformer is a project from alp (@mottopanikeiku) that compiles an integer neural network into a DOOM map. Voodoo dolls do the arithmetic. Light levels and plane heights hold the values. Every value the map exposes is…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Build an Aliens style motion scanner with an ESP32-S3 and radar

Julian Horsey at Geeky Gadgets writes about a handheld radar built by NorthWorks Lab, modeled on the motion tracker from the movie Aliens. It pairs an ESP32-S3 microcontroller with an LD2450 radar module, a small…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela

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