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XR may not have crashed into our lives as much as some tech billionaires have wished, but that doesn’t stop the appeal of a full display that takes up no physical space. At that point, why not get …

Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo Jarquin of the YouTube channel MateoTechLab has adapted it into a shoulder-mounted animatronic named “Pico” that can constantly interact with the wearer. All movement, sound generation, and lighting are handled by an Arduino Nano Every board embedded inside a custom 3D-printed […]

One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there are at least two profiles that “save” the position of the seat. When switching drivers, the new seat occupant can simply push the button for their profile and the seat will automatically move to their saved position. […]

Make your own Offline "Internet" that includes your own locally hosted AIAlso I really enjoy @dirty-civilian 's channel so this is not a dig at them. To get ...

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A straight forward practical build from 406JEM using HUZZAH for monitoring/watering a flower garden. Via Instructables: This is just some instruction for a little water controller flow controller I…

Brian Dorey writes about adding remote monitoring for soil moisture levels using Raspberry Pi Pico’s and LoRa radio modules programmed in MicroPython. In our polytunnel we have two raised beds wher…

This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late since [richardg867]’s Wayback Proxy is, quite literally, timeless. It does, more-or-less, what it says as on the …

Popular advice about using AI is obsessed with tools and “magic prompts”. To me, this is like if software engineering advice was all about memorizing the right…

As a long-time Steam user and avid PC gamer, I was bummed when Valve discontinued the Steam Link hardware back in 2018. This handy little device let me stream

A secure, off-grid communication terminal for when the rest of the world goes dark. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico, it encrypts text and GPS messages using AES-256 with rotating keys stored on SD. LORA provides long-range transmission. GPS or RTC time sync ensures one-time key usage. No network. No trace. Just resilience !

There’s a section of our community who concern themselves with the technological aspects of preparing for an uncertain future, and for them a significant proportion of effort goes in to commu…

At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various accounting, cash reconciliation, and operational tasks. To better guide that project, I wrote my own simple workflow tool as a learning project in January. Since then, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a prominent solution for writing tools for agents, and I decided to spend some time writing an MCP server over the weekend to build a better intuition.

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Often in Star Trek (almost all variations of it) they talk about "level N" diagnostics. Is there an actual description of what the diagnostic levels mean?

How do the frontier labs consistently train great models? How can they fail?

Time Expander shared this video on Youtube! For this cyberdeck build I am using a NOS (New Old Stock) enclosure from 1953 (Suckle Electronics. made for the U.S. Army Signal Corp to hold spare par…

Your computer keyboard probably has between 61 and 109 keys, and you have to type words out one letter at a time. Tech artist Attoparsec thought it might

Trail RFID is a battery-powered high-speed RFID reader controlled by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for off-grid use. It provides a low-cost RFID-based system for better tracking of participants to cross-c…

Post-training in industry is very different than the academic papers and open-source models demonstrate. Let's dive into one of my favorite topics in language modeling development today.

In today’s “futuristic tech you can get for $5”, [RealCorebb] shows us a gesture sensor, one of the sci-fi kind. He was doing a desktop clock build, and wanted to add gesture cont…

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I can't quite believe it either. Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals (inc. Zero Hour) have their code officially open sourced.