FLOSS Weekly Episode 852: Sir, This is a Wendy’s This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities …read more #hacking #projects image
Kitchen Bench Splash Guard Powered By Arduino If you’re blessed with high water pressure at home, you probably love how it helps blast grime from your dishes and provides a pleasant washing experience. However, it can also …read more #hacking #projects image
What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine? When the microcomputer first landed in homes some forty years ago, it came with a simple freedom—you could run whatever software you could get your hands on. Floppy disk from …read more #hacking #projects image
World’s Cheapest ARM Debugger Is Actually RISC-V [bogdanthegeek] has a lot of experience with the ARM platform, and their latest escapade into working with cheap ARM chips recovered from disposable vapes involved a realization that it was …read more #hacking #projects image
POV Globe Takes to the Skies LED billboards are cyberpunk-dystopian enough for most, but it can get worse. For example, this project by [Concept Crafted Creations] that takes the whole concept and takes it airborn (literally) …read more #hacking #projects image
The PDP-1 Can Sound Hauntingly Beautiful The chiptune music scene is largely rooted in the sounds of the original Nintendo Game Boy and the Commodore 64, while still welcoming a wide range of other hardware under …read more #hacking #projects image
Tinkercad Continues to Grow Up It is easy to write off Tinkercad as a kid’s toy. It is easy enough for kids to learn and it uses bright colors looking more like a video game …read more #hacking #projects image
Batteries Not Included: Meet the Swiss Réglette! Over on YouTube, [The Modern Rogue] created an interesting video showing a slide-rule-like encryption device called the Réglette. This was a hardware implementation of a Vigenère-like Cipher, technically referred to …read more #hacking #projects image
Open Source Hack Lets The Razer Nari Headset Work With Linux The Razer Nari is a decent wireless headset, but it’s a little oddball—because it uses a bespoke USB dongle for pairing. This is all well and good if you’re using …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Minecraft Lantern for Halloween Sometimes it’s fun to bring props from video games into the real world. [Hulk] has done just that with their latest Halloween build—creating a working replica of the lantern from …read more #hacking #projects image