Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday When Changing Scale Isn’t Just More of the Same [Jenny] and I were talking about [Bitluni]’s experiment in scale, where he will take 65,536 cheap microcontrollers, network them all together, and give each one an RGB pixel. From there, …read more
Jul 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet “The reality, of course, is that attempts to integrate AI into education have been consistently disastrous. As it turns out, a technology that spits out a confident mixture of fact and fiction with...
Jul 11, 2026 from It's FOSS I Mined and Built My Way Through Space Haven An indie game studio out of Finland, Linus Torvalds' birth country, built this game, treating Linux as a first-class citizen.
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday Clay Extruder Enables Printable Pottery Ceramic 3D printers, despite using the same fundamental mechanism as standard FDM printers, are much harder to find. Part of this comes down to the material properties of fired ceramics …read more
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext …read more
Jul 11, 2026 from Jasco's Website On AI 2: Agentic Boogaloo I talk about my evolving opinion on AI, A failed attempt to run local models, and a broken Macbook.
Jul 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 with Sol, Terra, and Luna models for wider public use OpenAI is rolling out its new GPT-5.6 models to the general public, calling the series “its best coding model yet” and positioning it as a direct competitor to Anthropic’s recently released Fable. ...
Jul 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches new ChatGPT Work tool and announces the shutdown of its AI browser Atlas OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new agentic system powered by the GPT 5.6 model family for handling professional tasks across apps, files, websites, and connected business services. Rather than...
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und …read more
Jul 11, 2026 from It's FOSS ELM11-Feather Is a Feather-Compatible Board That Speaks Lua Natively It's an FPGA-based board that lets you program the application, driver, and hardware layers in Lua, C, and VHDL/SystemVerilog, and it starts at $29.
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C. We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a …read more
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more
Jul 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts People and Clothes Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if the clothes are sentient, and cloth and wearer are locked in a lifelong battle fo...
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday How To Use Those Cute But Slightly Odd 7-Segment LCDs If you’re not aware, there is such a thing as adorable little three digit LCD 7-segment displays. They come in a ten-pin DIP package and are just begging to be …read more
Jul 10, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Urteil über Gamoril Zwei Ansätze, die Meinung über Gamoril kundzutun.
Jul 10, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Starting to understand epsilon-zero This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I had a brainwave a while back (18 months now, wow, I have definitely not been blogging enough) and sud...
Jul 10, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 10 July 2026 Slop Story Edition Top Story Nvidia's share price is down by 15% - from a recent peak of $117 squintillion - as it succumbs to the memory price hikes it caused for everybody else. (Tech Crunch) Goo...
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday Robot Dog in Browser You’ve doubtlessly seen the current crop of robot dogs and, if you are like us, thought about getting one to play with. The problem is that the cheap ones are …read more
Jul 10, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog Thundermail, Tuta, and remembering Lavabit How much does your choice of email provider matter? In some sense as an individual not much. However, together our choices do matter. So I reminisce about using Lavabit and the options today like T...
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 377: Parallel Pixels, Wiggly Consoles, and Seven Segments This week’s podcast sees Elliot joined by Jenny List, as both suffer silently in the European summer heat because the sound of a desk fan would come over on the …read more
