Billiard Ball Finds A New Home In Custom Trackball Mouse
They walk among us, unseen by polite society. They seem ordinary enough on the outside but they hide a dark secret – sitting beside their keyboards are trackballs instead of mice. We know, it…
Goodbye Monthly Fees: I Made My Own VPN With a Raspberry Pi 5
Don’t want to pay for an expensive VPN subscription? You can host one for free with a Raspberry Pi and a little know-how. I'm here to walk you through the process.
Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had…
Data Visualization And Aggregation: Time Series Databases, Grafana And More
If there’s one thing that characterizes the Information Age that we find ourselves in today, it is streams of data. However, without proper ways to aggregate and transform this data into info…
This machine automatically scans books from cover to cover | Arduino Blog
Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century. Of those, a significant portion were never available in a digital format and haven’t yet been digitized, which means their content is effectively inaccessible to most people today. To bring that content into the digital world, Redditor […]
Maybe your goal is to preserve the heyday of rail travel with a precise scale replica of a particular railroad station. Maybe you’re making a hyper-local edition of Monopoly in which the hous…
Converting An E-Paper Photo Frame Into Weather Map
Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame as a weather map! By now you are probably aware of e-paper technology, which is very low power tech for displayi…
If he’s anything like us [Duncan Hall] was probably equal parts excited and disgusted when he found a 1987 Macintosh SE case at a garage sale. Excited, because not every day do vintage comput…
BhangmeterV2 Answers The Question “Has A Nuke Gone Off?”
You might think that a nuclear explosion is not something you need a detector for, but clearly not everyone agrees. [Bigcrimping] has not only built one, the BhangmeterV2, but he has its output pub…
AI agents aren't replacing developers - they're amplifying what skilled engineers can accomplish. The job replacement panic might just be the wrong place to channel our energy into.