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  • DIY PLAYSTATION 5 TABLET ALMOST MAKES THE PLAYSTATION PORTAL MOOT

    This guys work is a pleasure to watch. I saw his PS3 video and was hooked.

  • This Zodiac Embroidery Lights Up

    For the step by step instructions: https://makezine.com/projects/this-zodiac-embroidery-lights-up/

  • You Should Daily Drive Haiku OS

    I’m kinda excited by this… BeOS was my lusted-after OS in college. I have been watching Haiku development for years. Their progress has been super impressive. For more details: https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/

  • PSA: Wear fake fingers to make real photos look AI generated.

    I LOOOOOOVE the cultural weirdness of this. It’s an unintended consequence of GenAI systems when they bump into legal systems. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/15/24038880/psa-wear-fake-fingers-to-make-real-photos-look-ai-generated

  • A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest and the revitalization of the Salton Sea

    Casey’s writing on solar power has transformed the way I look at at power related problems… when you realize we have an unlimited amount of power raining from the sky (that we can capture) then it changes the economics of problems. Cheap and power inefficient becomes the play of the day. The advent of cheap…

  • How Changing Military Technology Has Contributed To End of Empire

    It was always clear that drones were not going to be weapons of the powerful. What matters for weapons systems is who can afford them. If you need aircraft carriers and you’re not a major country, you’re shit outta luck. The end of medieval nobility arrived with gunpowder weapons, specifically cannons. King could afford them,…

  • RISC-V Assembler: Arithmetic

    I truely believe that RISC-V is in the process of turning the computing world on it’s head… the combo of open source design and easily grokkable instruction set is a killer combo. I grew up with ARM processors (I had an Acorn 410 as a kid and a BBC B before that), but I do…

  • NASA FINALLY RIPS LID OFF STUBBORN ASTEROID SAMPLE

    NASA’s team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners on the container that holds some incredibly valuable stuff: materials the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sampled from asteroid Bennu, over 100 million miles away. The samples, tucked inside a special landing capsule, were dropped off in the Utah desert in September. The treasure was quickly delivered to a special…

  • Optically Decoding the TMS0801 ROM

    I’ve seen a couple of these projects… just bonkers. Decoding the contents of a ROM by looking at the physical structure. The TMS0801, from 1972, was one of the first chips to completely contain everything to need to run a calculator. It was used to power the Sinclair Cambridge. It contained the CPU, RAM, and ROM,…

  • Bioengineers design a new plant to purify air faster than nature

    I love this concept… but it reeks of unintended consequences. Lionel Mora and Patrick Torbey, co-founders of Neoplants, had the idea of building an organism with, what Mora describes as, “virtuous function.” In other words, they wanted to use synthetic biology to add positive functions that could have a positive impact on the environment. They…