Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Addressable LEDs Make Giant 16×2 Character Display We’ve always taken a certain childlike joy in seeing tiny things made big, and big things tiny. Evidently [Uncle Stem] is the same way, if this 7x sized 16×2 “LCD” …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-05-26 Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5, 2026.) The Dr...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Proton’s privacy-focused AI Lumo can now generate interactive charts and visuals in chat Lumo introduces the ability to generate charts, graphs, and custom visuals directly within chat conversations. Users can upload datasets, spreadsheets, or documents, paste structured data, and rece...
Aug 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 5 August 2026 Spain And Suffering Edition Top Story On the fifth of August of this year, SpaceX will blow up the Moon. (Yahoo) Wait, that was... Two hours ago. Well, can't see the Moon right now. Guess it worked...
Aug 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Cloudflare is developing programmable wallets for AI agents to pay for online services Cloudflare has introduced cloudflare.pay, a persistent identifier system for AI agents that handle online transactions. Users can reserve human readable addresses such as research.example.cloudflar...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple is developing a cross-device clipboard for iPhone and Windows PC for EU users Apple has confirmed it is developing a cross-device clipboard feature that will let users copy content from an iPhone and paste it on a Windows PC, and vice versa. Universal Clipboard already suppo...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Reading a Thermocouple with Mercury and a Potentiometer If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, etymologically suggesting something like a voltmeter. In fact, the component took...
Aug 05, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game In the previous article we saw how to interpre...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system w...
Aug 05, 2026 from It's FOSS This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office Built by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C? [Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from It's FOSS While Torvalds Makes Peace With AI in Linux, Greg Kroah-Hartman Draws a Line (Sort of) His new policy keeps AI patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
Aug 05, 2026 from Kev Quirk New Pets, Sick Pets, and Hemorrhaging Money Wooh! The last few weeks have been absolutely mental here in Casa del Quirk. Around 2 months ago we started renovating the stables to make things better for the goats and chickens. We've had an ext...
Aug 05, 2026 from Remote Synthesis I Totally Misunderstood ATProto I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entirely wrong but I was also way off the mark.
Aug 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Buzz Desktop v0.5.4: deploy kubernetes agents, better security, new navigation Buzz Desktop v0.5.4 enables early deployment of remote agents directly to Kubernetes from the desktop app. The release also adds important security updates, including to the Nostr stack and improve...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Train Simulator Controller: July 2026 Progress Roundup For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday A Full Motion Video Codec For the Atari ST Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and if playing Full Motion Video …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Visual Novel Definition From Academic Paper I collected academic papers about visual novels for at least one ongoing NLJ article project. I figured that the best place to start my reading was “What is a Visual Novel?” This paper, authored by...
