In Praise of Plasma TVs I’m sitting in front of an old Sayno Plasma TV as I write this on my media PC. It’s not a productivity machine, by any means, but the screen has …read more #hacking #projects

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In Praise Of Plasma TVs

I’m sitting in front of an old Sayno Plasma TV as I write this on my media PC. It’s not a productivity machine, by any means, but the screen ha...

Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. …read more #hacking #projects

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Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a mileston...

Micro:Bit Gets Pseudo-Polyphonic Sound With Neat Hack The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s got a pretty basic sound output feature that can play a single …read more #hacking #projects

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Micro:Bit Gets Pseudo-Polyphonic Sound With Neat Hack

The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s got a pretty bas...

Exploring The Performance Gains Of Four-Pin MOSFETs Over on YouTube [DENKI OTAKU] runs us through how a 4-pin MOSFET works and what the extra Kelvin source pin does. A typical MOSFET might come in a 3-pin TO-247 …read more #hacking #projects

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Exploring The Performance Gains Of Four-Pin MOSFETs

Over on YouTube [DENKI OTAKU] runs us through how a 4-pin MOSFET works and what the extra Kelvin source pin does. A typical MOSFET might come in a ...

Writing Type-Safe Generics in C The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s nothing that’s keeping you from …read more #hacking #projects

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Writing Type-Safe Generics In C

The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-orient...

Binary Clock Also Monitors Weather There are two things most of us want to know on a daily basis—the weather, and what time it is. [Guitarman9119] built a single device that can provide both pieces …read more #hacking #projects

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Binary Clock Also Monitors Weather

There are two things most of us want to know on a daily basis—the weather, and what time it is. [Guitarman9119] built a single device that can pr...

Building A Smart Speaker Outside The Corporate Cloud If you’re not worried about corporate surveillance bots scraping your shopping list and manipulating you through marketing, you can buy any number of off-the-shelf smart speakers for your home. Alternatively, …read more #hacking #projects

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Building A Smart Speaker Outside The Corporate Cloud

If you’re not worried about corporate surveillance bots scraping your shopping list and manipulating you through marketing, you can buy any n...

Meet The Shape That Cannot Pass Through Itself Can a shape pass through itself? That is to say, if one had two identical solids, would it be possible to orient one such that a hole could be cut …read more #hacking #projects

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Meet The Shape That Cannot Pass Through Itself

Can a shape pass through itself? That is to say, if one had two identical solids, would it be possible to orient one such that a hole could be cut ...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Cipher-Capable Typewriter I must confess that my mouth froze in an O when I saw [Jeff]’s Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System, and I continue to stare in slack-jawed wonder as I find …read more #hacking #projects

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Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Cipher-Capable Typewriter

I must confess that my mouth froze in an O when I saw [Jeff]’s Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System, and I continue to stare in slack-ja...

Watching Radioactive Decay with a Homemade Spinthariscope Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and radiation is the spinthariscope, which let people …read more #hacking #projects

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Watching Radioactive Decay With A Homemade Spinthariscope

Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, ...