Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot
The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazon’s so-called ‘smart speaker’ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, designed to be a pretty minimalistic device that gives you access …read more
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Voyager 1 Briefly Goes Silent, Scaring Everyone
It’s no big secret at this point that we are looking at the final years of the two venerable Voyager spacecraft. With their power supplies diminishing and their 1970s-era electronics …read more
Adafruit New Products this Week
We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here This week we debuted 1 New Product, Visit www.adafruit.com/new for more info. Adafruit Si5351C 8 Channel TCXO Clock Generator – 2.5KHz-200MHz – STEMMA QT
DIY WiFi Analyzer Sniffs Out Congestion and Coverage Issues, Suggests Fixes
[Roni Bandini]’s JEV WiFi Analyzer is an interesting experiment that glues together a single-board Linux computer, a USB WiFi adapter, and a specialized AI model to create a new kind …read more
Spooky Keychain Arcade
Truly pocket sized gaming, perfect for breaks in between houses as you trick or treat. A simple Two button layout with a ghostly 3D printed case. Shared by Gokul on Hackster.io: The Keychain Arcade is a wearable,…
The Flash C compiler
Dilshan Jayakody has released Flash C, a C compiler and full-screen text-mode IDE written from scratch for x86-64 Linux, documented on his Web Log. The compiler, fcc, reads C source and writes a static ELF executable…
Bring On Supercon!
In just under a week from today, almost 700 hackers will be getting together in Pasadena, CA for three days of scheming, soldering, and socializing. If you’re able to join …read more
Monopoly Deluxe, the 1992 DOS game: “Dear Human”
Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, tells the story of a bug he ran into as a kid playing Monopoly Deluxe, the 1992 DOS game. The game did not run on Windows, but it copied the Windows interface closely:…
Learn to Edit STL Files in Just a Few Minutes
Sometimes an STL file needs a bit of editing, but if one doesn’t already know how to use a mesh editor it’s unlikely that one has the time to sit …read more
3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools with Fire
They may not deliver the highest efficiency, but absorption refrigerators have earned a persistent place in camper vans and industrial plants thanks to a few distinct advantages: they can operate …read more
Novelty Camera To USB Camera
The Godox C100 is a cheap camera that’s best described as a toy, its party trick being a large clear viewfinder with a head-up-display light meter. It’s by no means …read more
Arduino UNO Q gets a 10.1-inch touch display with integrated speakers, audio jacks, camera connectors
Waveshare UNO-Q-DSI-TOUCH-10.1A is a 10.1-inch touchscreen display designed for the Arduino UNO Q single board computer. The Arduino UNO Q exposes its MIPI DSI interface through the 60-pin JMEDIA and JMISC headers, and…
VR Headset Ditches the Base Stations with DIY Tracking
Those in the virtual reality scene might be interested in [Prohurtz]’s add-on for the Bigscreen Beyond VR headset. BSB-SLAM adds SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) tracking to the headset by attaching …read…
Marelleo, a story box I built for my kids