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I develop 🌕 Lunar, a macOS app for getting intelligent adaptive brightness on external monitors and controlling every aspect of your monitor using DDC and other obscure protocols. I get tons of email about Lunar, especially after it became my full time “job” in 2021. A lot of those emails complain about Lunar bugs…
I have come up with a new way to win at chess: I have connected up a Raspberry Pi Zero in my pocket to some buttons and vibration motors in my shoes, so that I can surreptitiously communicate with a chess engine running on the Pi. The project is called "Sockfish" because it's a way to operate Stockfish with your socks.
Building a battery powered e-ink weather forecast display for our home. This was a fun Raspberry Pi project.
Personal site of Ellie Huxtable
Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s been a year since our last blog post announcing the launch of the Rebble developer portal and in that time we’ve seen...
I built my own laptop over the holiday break and it’s a developer’s dream come true. I took a chance and ordered a Framework Laptop DIY Edition. I’m so glad I did. The Framework is an excellent platform to customize and build a very capable and stable Linux machine for development. Here’s what I love about it and…
Bodging a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard
If you have AirTags in the vicinity of your iPad it drains its battery for no reason. The past months I’ve been wondering why my iPad Pro always needed to be recharged when I used to use it without charging for weeks. I’m not the only one…
Smart TVs have upended the way we consume television content. They are luring us in with great picture quality and the promise of customized and seamless viewing, but they are also collecting and sharing our data. Find out how to make the most of your smart TV without compromising privacy.
This post is going yet another part in the DIY camera projects which have been doing since quite some time. In this post I will showi...
By Katia Moskvitch
Yes, you read that right... for $8 you can run linux on a RISC-V computer. And not just a stripped down kernel without an MMU. No, t...
Many backers have already received their Flipper Zeros, and their number is growing by the day. At the time of writing, 23 thousand devices have already been shipped! We're getting a ton of feedback from users and it's amazing. Unfortunately, there is still a considerable number of backers who are
The Making of RP2040 Doom
In collaboration with the Metal engineering team at Apple, we are excited to announce support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac. Until now, PyTorch training on Mac only leveraged the...
I bought two computers this year: a beefy Macbook Pro with M1 Pro and a GPD Micro PC.
Dmitry.GR: My business card runs Linux (and Ultrix), yours can too. Details, kits, etc...
...long live its subpar replacement
MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.
Discover how a single Raspberry Pi can speed up your home network by acting as a DNS server. Learn the steps to set up Pi-hole and enjoy faster, more secure internet today!
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Apple today announced the completely redesigned MacBook Air with M2, will be available to order beginning Friday, July 8, at 5 a.m. PDT.
When I was kids, I draw my perfect laptop PC to note. At that time, I couldn’t have the laptop. But, now I can start my project!
Self-built electric vehicle sets new best time
In November last year — I started building a DIY security alarm system, using a Raspberry Pi as the controller. My plan was to make a self-sustained system, using proper alarm hardware — like PIR sensors and sirens. Integration with Home Assistant would be an add-on, not a requirement. I wanted the system to be as…
American, the world’s largest airline, poised to have the world’s largest supersonic fleet with new Boom Supersonic aircraft
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has certified and released the first version of the Matter smart home interoperability protocol Tuesday and I couldn’t be happier. This means that member companies can now put their devices through the certification protocol and get a badge showing that their products are Matter…
