Jul 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customisable open-source keyboard for Android This is a very feature packed and functional keyboard. I’ve found its word suggestions as good as GBoard and other Big Tech keyboards. I managed to import an Afrikaans dictionary and HeliBoard hand...
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday MicroPython is this Summer’s Hottest Title for the SNES, Thanks to Claude Fable MicroPython, for the uninitiated, is a pared-down version of python meant to run on today’s powerful microcontollers. As impressive as it was for its day, the SNES is not quite …read more
Jul 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 July 2026 Ship Aisle And Edition Top Story Commies to the left of me, commies also to the left of me: Meta faces fines in the trillions of dollars from Europe and a cartel of US states unless they make their...
Jul 11, 2026 from Hackaday To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate The Neurochemistry Giving machines the ability to communicate nonverbally has real value, and [Drew Smith] clearly thinks your robot deserves better than an emoji. He shared a very interesting approach with his …read...
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...
