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KVM2USB 3.0 is small and portable, making it easy to turn your laptop into a portable data center crash cart or manage equipment anywhere on your campus. And because there’s no software to install on…

My concept for this project has been pretty clear since the original idea. I love the movie The Matrix, and I often wonder about many movies like it if they had included 3D printing or other newer tech in their universe. I loved the look and idea of a floating terminal, and many of us already have

DIY Portable KVM Crashcart From Recycled Laptop Provides VGA Display and USB Keyboard Touchpad With Optional Raspberry Pi: Troubleshooting a headless server sometimes requires a “Crash Cart” with a keyboard, video display, and mouse (KVM). This Instructable describes how to make a KVM by replacing the motherboard in a broken laptop with a Teensy keyboard/touchpad contro…

Rowing machines make for excellent aerobic workouts, as they involve repeatedly pushing one’s legs against the base and pulling out the handle to achieve the fastest times. But because of the equipment’s nature, learning how to exercise correctly on one often requires a coach that can correct the user’s form, which is why Justin Lutz created […]

WebTerminalDemo is a simple demo of the Web Serial API which implements a bare-bones serial terminal, now on GitHub by the SparkX branch of SparkFun. This demo uses TextEncoderStream and TextDecode…

Power Devices support

Looking to spice up your system as a retro gaming console? These Linux distributions can help you do that.

Learn how to setup, use, and maintain your own Plex Media Server from your home by following easy-to-read user guides.

Using a clunky old desktop as a dev box? Wasting money every month on the cloud? Trash it all and use an old phone instead—so long as you’re OK with its very specific environment and limitati…

Emacs is a flexible text editor that can just about do anything you want. Learn how to use it as a publishing tool with LaTeX and Org Mode.

You can find many note-taking services, like, Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Obsidian and online storage services such as, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud. They are easy to use and secure. But, secure is not equal to private! A way to keep privacy is host private services by self. Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid Of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook And Google This is how I share/edit notes and files with different devices which service providers are unable to peek and analyze my private contents.

Gaurav Singh, acting as Circuit Valley, has designed an open-source hardware USB 3.0 Type-C industrial camera with three boards: one to capture data

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

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Boost your productivity with these visualization tools that will help explore and manage complex files, development environments and much…

Answer (1 of 6): Generally phone lines have a voltage of either 40 or 90 volts (the latter when ringing). Although using them to power stuff may be illegal, a violation of your subscriber agreement, or both, they're entirely useful as power sources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjHNeQHXCg ...

I've spent the last week hacking away at Nixago, a Nix flake-based library for dynamically generating configuration files. I recently overhauled the internals and am pretty satisfied with where it's at. I wanted to share a short example of how it can be leveraged to configure a Github repository using

- Waterproof pelican case - 3 water proof ports on outside (power, network, USB) - Raspberry Pi 3B with arch Linux - RTL-SDR - 11 Inch Screen (with 5 buttons for control) - Full cherry keyboard - Gigabit switch - USB hub - 3S2 battery pack with custom charge cable (red port) - ESP32 with OLED display, 2 rotary knobs, 5 buttons and keypad to control SDR - 2 External Antenna connectors - Tray for flipperZero (https://flipperzero.one/) - Custom sticker on outside - Custom cut aluminum plates with custom vinyl sticker on top

You'll want this cyberdeck at your side in the event of an apocalypse

It was a dreary afternoon in Milan last year when, procrastinating on studying, I was struck by a flash of genius. “What would happen if I made a banana-powered random number generator?“. I immediately went to tell my roommate, who was also an electronic engineer.He looked me in the face and burst out laughing. At … Leggi tutto "Generating true random numbers from bananas"

Valerio Nappi posts about generating true random numbers from bananas: It was a dreary afternoon in Milan last year when, procrastinating on studying, I was struck by a flash of genius. “What would…

Check out the best single-board computers you can buy in 2021 for all uses and budgets! From ARM SBCs to x86 single board computers that run Windows, SBCs for gaming, the fastest single board computer, and everything in-between, here are the best SBCs to fit your needs!

If you own a TomTom GPS system for your vehicle and would like to extend its use, there are various hacks that you can apply. This particular hack will show you how to change the vehicle icon that displays on your screen when you are going to your destination.