FLOSS Weekly Episode 858: YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is Bigger Servers This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why …read more #hacking #projects

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 858: YottaDB: Sometimes The Solution Is Bigger Servers

This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across ...

Why LLMs are Less Intelligent than Crows The basic concept of human intelligence entails self-awareness alongside the ability to reason and apply logic to one’s actions and daily life. Despite the very fuzzy definition of ‘human intelligence‘, …read more #hacking #projects

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Why LLMs Are Less Intelligent Than Crows

The basic concept of human intelligence entails self-awareness alongside the ability to reason and apply logic to one’s actions and daily lif...

Cheap 10x10cm Hotplate Punches Above Its Weight For less than $30 USD, you can get a 10×10 centimeter hotplate with 350 Watts of power. Sounds mighty fine to us, so surely there must be a catch? Maybe …read more #hacking #projects

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Cheap 10x10cm Hotplate Punches Above Its Weight

For less than $30 USD, you can get a 10×10 centimeter hotplate with 350 Watts of power. Sounds mighty fine to us, so surely there must be a ca...

Ask Hackaday: Solutions, or Distractions? The “Long Dark” is upon us, at least for those who live north of the equator, and while it’s all pre-holiday bustle, pretty lights, and the magical first snow of …read more #hacking #projects

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Ask Hackaday: Solutions, Or Distractions?

The “Long Dark” is upon us, at least for those who live north of the equator, and while it’s all pre-holiday bustle, pretty light...

Failed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small Plane Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed. The aircraft was a total loss, but thankfully, the pilot …read more #hacking #projects

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Failed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small Plane

Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed. The aircraft was a total loss, but thankfull...

A Musically-Reactive LED Christmas Tree Regular Christmas trees don’t emit light, nor do they react to music. If you want both things in a holiday decoration, consider this build from [dbmaking].  An ESP32-D1 mini runs …read more #hacking #projects

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A Musically-Reactive LED Christmas Tree

Regular Christmas trees don’t emit light, nor do they react to music. If you want both things in a holiday decoration, consider this build fr...

Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a heatsink, …read more #hacking #projects

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Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a...

MagQuest: Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field with Space-Based Quantum Sensors Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within …read more #hacking #projects

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MagQuest: Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field With Space-Based Quantum Sensors

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase ...

Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses [NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line of Ray-Bans. A project in progress, it’s currently focused …read more #hacking #projects

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Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses

[NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line...

G4 iMac Becomes a Monitor with a MagSafe Secret The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that people squeeze in don’t have a …read more #hacking #projects

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G4 IMac Becomes A Monitor With A MagSafe Secret

The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that p...