I love first builds! They say so much about a person, because you see what’s paramount to them in a keyboard. You can almost feel their frustration at other keyboards come through their design choices. And the Lobo by [no-restarts] is no exception to any of this. There’s just something about this Corne-like object with […]
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is best known as the neurotoxin of the puffer fish, though it also appears in a range of other marine species. You might remember it from an episode of The Simpsons involving a poorly prepared dish at a sushi restaurant. Indeed, it’s a potent thing, as ingesting even tiny amounts can lead to […]
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to cover the best of Hackaday this week, and they want you to listen in. There were a hodgepodge of hacks this week, ranging from home automation with RF, volumetric displays in glass, and some crazy clocks, too. Ever see a typewriter that uses an ink […]
Microsoft has published a patch-set for the Linux kernel, proposing the Hornet Linux Security Module (LSM). If you haven’t been keeping up with the kernel contributor scoreboard, Microsoft is #11 at time of writing and that might surprise you. The reality is that Microsoft’s biggest source of revenue is their cloud offering, and Azure is […]
This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why is it licensed AGPL, and how does that work with commercial deployments? Watch to find out! https://yottadb.com https://github.com/YottaDB/YDB Did you know you can watch the […]
The basic concept of human intelligence entails self-awareness alongside the ability to reason and apply logic to one’s actions and daily life. Despite the very fuzzy definition of ‘human intelligence‘, and despite many aspects of said human intelligence (HI) also being observed among other animals, like crows and orcas, humans over the ages have always […]
[Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its chocolate-brown and 9u space bar-havin’ glory. Image by [Jean] via GitHub This Arduino Pro Micro-based brain transplant began as a sketch, and [Jean] reports it now has […]