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Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
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Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
Arduino Blog
This DIY bruxism detector prevents jaw clenching during sleep At some point in your life, you’ve probably had a doctor or dentist ask you if you clench your jaw...
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At some point in your life, you’ve probably had a doctor or dentist ask you if you clench your jaw or grind your teeth — particularly at night. That is called bruxism and it can have serious effects, such as tooth damage, jaw pain, headaches, and more. But because it often...
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We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But...
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I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But really, they do suck. A laptop can be great to use, have a fantastic keyboard, sharp display, lots of storage and a fast CPU, and all of that can be ruined by one component: the...
Arduino Blog
New arrivals: Nano Connector Carrier + 7 Modulino® nodes to supercharge your projects We’re excited to introduce two tiny additions to the Arduino ecosystem that will make a big...
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We’re excited to introduce two tiny additions to the Arduino ecosystem that will make a big difference: the Nano Connector Carrier and seven new Modulino® nodes, now available individually in the Arduino Store! These products are designed to make your prototyping experience...
Arduino Blog
This CanSat doubles as a drone to slow descents A CanSat is a small sensor payload, about the size of a soda can, designed to be launched on a model...
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A CanSat is a small sensor payload, about the size of a soda can, designed to be launched on a model rocket to relatively low altitudes of around 1km. But while that isn’t anywhere close to leaving the atmosphere, it is very high and CanSats need a way to get back to the ground...
Arduino Blog
CamRo is a robot that captures awesome product videos at the touch of a button Presentation is always important — even in the maker community. Nice photos and videos get people in...
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Presentation is always important — even in the maker community. Nice photos and videos get people in the door and technical achievements keep them around. But recording nice videos can be difficult, which is why Cameron Coward developed this robot, called CamRo, to do the work...
Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
Behind the boards: How Alba PCB Group and Arduino bring Made-in-Italy innovation to life Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to...
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Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to take a peek behind the scenes with a beautiful documentary by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, A Different Alba: Arduino, an Italian Invention. Discover the...
./techtipsy
Home is where the home server is I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This...
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I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive ideas. The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
Arduino Blog
Optimize maintenance with the Arduino Rileva ME Opta Bundle When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a...
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When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a “nice to have” – is quickly becoming a must in maintenance strategies across industrial settings. But most dedicated systems can be complex to set up or difficult to scale. To make...
Arduino Blog
VIGOR fuses fashion and technology in an avant-garde wearable Fashion isn’t just about following current clothing and accessory trends. It is also a form of art...
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Fashion isn’t just about following current clothing and accessory trends. It is also a form of art and creative expression. And like every other form of art, fashion has a place for technology — both in the fabrication of garments and in the garments themselves. Inspired by...
Computer Ads from...
Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986) They discuss interface design and Raskin's hatred of the mouse.
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computers are bad
2025-05-11 air traffic control Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do...
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Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of...
lcamtuf’s thing
Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND? Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
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In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are...
Matt Mullenweg
Code Matters It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are...
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It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are some cool Figma-to-WordPress workflows; I hope Sites gets more people exploring those options.
Birchtree
What got you here… John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in...
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John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in my head whenever I think about Apple. It’s the most succinct explanation of what pulled Apple from the brink of bankruptcy in the 1990s to its astronomical success today. Don’
Arduino Blog
A single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by...
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Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by clicking on big virtual keys one at a time. But people also don’t want to carry around dedicated physical keyboard devices just to type every now and then. That’s why a team of...
Arduino Blog
ExoKit is a novice-friendly foundation for building powered exoskeletons Our modern technological world is built upon shared knowledge. If you want to build a car, you don’t...
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Our modern technological world is built upon shared knowledge. If you want to build a car, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel—you can rely on existing research and engineering, so you can skip ahead to the more complex specialized work. Such foundations exist in every industry...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #67: Why Starmer should follow Trump's communications strategy Plus why AI environmental claims are basically nonsense.
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Birchtree
Nintendo's financial results are actually pretty interesting Nintendo's fiscal year just ended on March 31, and their annual results report has some goodies in...
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Nintendo's fiscal year just ended on March 31, and their annual results report has some goodies in there I thought were worth shouting out. First up, the company made a lot less money than in the previous year, with 30% lower revenue and 46% lower profits. As someone
Arduino Blog
This plant always gets enough sunlight thanks to its robotic legs Plants of all kinds are quite infamous for their inability to move, and this can be especially...
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Plants of all kinds are quite infamous for their inability to move, and this can be especially problematic for houseplants that rely on consistently sunny locations within a room in order to get enough light. Driven by wanting their plant to have the best possible growing...
Arduino Blog
Join Arduino at Automate 2025 to explore the future of automation We’re heading to Automate 2025, the largest robotics and automation event in the Americas, happening...
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We’re heading to Automate 2025, the largest robotics and automation event in the Americas, happening May 12-15 at Huntington Place in Detroit – and we’re bringing a lineup of fresh innovations, live demos, and exciting new launches. You’ll find us in Booth #6632, right next to...
Birchtree
Raycast does this The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got...
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The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got the craziest apps? This episode has more new apps mentioned in any episode of Comfort Zone ever! Watch or listen now. Other Things Discussed Chris's hyper key video
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the May 2025 + Post Topic Make your vote count.
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Electronics etc…
Brightness and Contrast Adjustment of Tektronix TDS 500/600/700 Oscilloscopes Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview...
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Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview Mode Introduction Less than a week after finishing my TDS 684B analog memory blog post, a TDS 684C landed on my lab bench with a very dim CRT. If you follow the lives the 3-digit TDS oscilloscope...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/12 Issue of Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated Time for some oldie levity.
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Birchtree
Nebula Sans (and my new Jet Lag addiction) My friend and Comfort Zone cohost Niléane recently recommended the series Jet Lag: The Game, and...
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My friend and Comfort Zone cohost Niléane recently recommended the series Jet Lag: The Game, and it's become my new obsession recently. I think the show is so fun, and Sam, Adam, and Ben have such a great dynamic. The show is on YouTube, but it&
Birchtree
Where software innovation is focused right now Craig Mod on The Talk Show: In three minutes, I had that script built with ChatGPT. I could see it,...
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Craig Mod on The Talk Show: In three minutes, I had that script built with ChatGPT. I could see it, it's this bash thing, it does this thing, and authenticates with the Google, and it's great! The malleability of macOS is now, I think, giving it
Birchtree
+ A bicycle for the mind is good. Is a motorbike too much? When is the computer doing too much for you? Has our line for this moved over time?
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Krebs on Security
Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States...
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A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book...
watchTowr Labs
SysOwned, Your Friendly Support Ticket - SysAid On-Premise Pre-Auth RCE Chain (CVE-2025-2775 And... It’s… another week, and another vendor who is apparently experienced with ransomware gangs but yet...
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It’s… another week, and another vendor who is apparently experienced with ransomware gangs but yet struggles with email. In what we've seen others term "the watchTowr treatment", we are once again (surprise, surprise) disclosing vulnerability research that allowed us to gain...
Arduino Blog
This haptic glove could help deafblind people communicate Part of the reason that we all learned in school about the Helen Keller’s inspiring life was because...
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Part of the reason that we all learned in school about the Helen Keller’s inspiring life was because the combination of blindness and deafness are so challenging. An impairment with just one still leaves the opportunity to communicate using the other. But without either sight or...
Matt Mullenweg
Remember Gravatar? Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one...
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Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one profile, synced across the web, verified connections, with a fully open API. Gravatar is a true open identity layer for the internet, and now for AI.  For developers, we’ve rolled out...
Birchtree
What's that power you've amassed for if you're not going to use it? I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?… At a...
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I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?… At a time when some trans people are actively seeking to flee the U.S. to preserve their fundamental right to a healthy, safe, and decent life free from the
Odds and Ends of...
Tony Blair is right about Net Zero Tough on carbon, tough on the sources of carbon
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The math of when stage 1 and stage 2 make sense
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Arduino Blog
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
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While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 9: Procrastination Do you ever catch yourself avoiding things you need to do? Sure you, do: we all do it. In episode 9...
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Do you ever catch yourself avoiding things you need to do? Sure you, do: we all do it. In episode 9 of Traction Heroes, Harry and I discuss what to do about it. The conversation took off when Harry read a fragment from Oliver Burkeman’s book, Meditations for Mortals. I won’t cite...
Odds and Ends of...
What Tony Blair actually said about fossil fuels Plus how Abundance won World War II
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of R2E and the Micral The second personal computer
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The New Oil
The Future is Now
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OH8HUB’s Substack
May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
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Electronics etc…
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look...
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Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look at the Noise Issue Conclusion Introduction I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
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In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
Old Vintage...
What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
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(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
computers are bad
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
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You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Evan Hahn's blog
Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things...
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I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things I wish I knew when I got started. Jump over battles to skip them You can jump over enemies to avoid fighting them! I first discovered this when watching a speedrun of the game. If...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Simplifying the L1
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Matt Mullenweg
Berkshire Hathaway Meeting I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s...
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I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s really an event! Thousands flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for the legendary Q&A sessions with Warren Buffett and shareholder deals. They’ve made it quite the circus, with every Berkshire...