Posts tagged "tech"

First Impressions of the Fitbit Air

A little over a week ago I took delivery of my new Fitbit Air, so I thought I'd jot down some of my thoughts after using it every day to track my health. I recently started running again, for which...

A New Life For a Rare Console

One of the delights of our tips line is that from time to time it brings us retrocomputing hardware that, despite years of reporting, we were not aware existed. [Hitmanmcc] …read more

Less Than 10 Years? Commonwealth Fusion Systems Applies to Plug into Grid in 2030s

Whenever the topic of fusion power comes up, someone will say it’s only 10 years away from commercialization in an excited tone, and someone older or more cynical will point …read more

Extrepo in Debian

Game Publishers Move to Avoid GTA 6 (Rob Fahey)

Games Industry.biz (GIb) is a news website which covers the video game industry (surprise!). I have had GIb in my feed collection for a couple of years, and it has informed two NLJ articles in Prov...

A RayCast FPS in COBOL

COBOL is not the first language anyone would ever think of when writing a First Person Shooter– after all , it’s the Common Business Oriented Language, not the Common Game …read more

The Single Biggest Reason Why ProtonMail is Killing My Productivity

6 years of ditching Gmail and I still miss that tiny but handy feature.

Building a Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler With 3D-Printed Parts

Although cryocoolers are capable of pretty impressive cooling, for many of them the underlying working principle is simple enough that you do not need any special skills or a big …read more

Pi Pico Demos, Therefore It Is

A good demo, like [Linus Akesson]’s Sum Ergo Demonstrato, looks like magic to the average hacker. To normies who don’t know the limitations of the RP2350, they don’t see the …read more

Pi Pico Puts Bluetooth Keyboards on the I2C Bus

If you’ve ever worked with I2C, you know its one of those things that makes working with modern microcontrollers such a pleasure. With a few wires and not many more …read more

Daily News Stuff 6 June 2026

Sleb Edition Top Story SpaceX just launched 50 more Starlink satellites into orbit in a single day, using a pair of its trusty Falcon 9 boosters from facilities at Cape Canaveral and Vandenburg. (S...

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Been doing some work on the website to bring back post types on the site properly (something I haven't had since switching from Kirby). I now have articles, links, notes and books, all on the homep...

Stratasys vs Bambu Lab: Industrial vs Consumer ABS Showdown

Professional Stratasys FDM printers demand a pretty hefty price premium over your typical hobbyist-level machine, with the gold-plating continuing even with the special filament cartridges that you...

Homebrew Webcam Support for the Original Xbox

These days, we take it for granted that a video game console will have multiple USB ports. There’s even an expectation that basic peripherals such as storage devices will “Just …read more

3D Printing a Miniature CoreXY Printer

Although no longer so common as during the heyday of the RepRap movement, it’s easier than ever to build your own largely-printed 3D printer, with designs such as Voron’s delivering …read more

Tippfehler: Hinweise erwünscht

Wenn ihr Tippfehler in meinen Artikeln entdeckt, kontaktiert mich gerne dazu, ich werde sie korrigieren.

Meta Quietly Added Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses

“According to a report from Wired, Meta has been quietly installing facial recognition in its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses for the last few months. Internally called “NameTag”, the fe...

An Unlikely Host For An 8080 Emulator

To emulate vintage microprocessor hardware, it’s normal to find a modern host that provides alongside the number-crunching grunt, sufficient physical connections to interface with its support hardw...

Using Brand New NiMH Cells After Sitting 12 Years Unused

After finding a pack of NiMH rechargeable cells that had never been used since buying them in 2014, [DiodeGoneWild] decided to test whether they could be tossed or not. After …read more

Craving Hyprland But Don't Want to Configure It? Try Dank Linux

A single cURL command can set you up with a fully themed desktop on top of Hyprland.