All of that is, of course, also available ad- and tracker-free, and now illustrated to boot, via the #GeminiProtocol
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Gareth Halfacree
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It's #Hackster round-up time again!And finally, a 3D-printed remote control designed to be easier to operate with visual impairment - running for years from two AA batteries thanks to an ATtiny84 in sleep mode.
#Technology #News #Hackster #3DPrinting #Accessibility #Microcontroller
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It's #Hackster round-up time again!A wooden lockbox with a difference: there's a gyroscope inside, and unless you twist and turn it in exactly the right pattern it simply won't open.
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It's #Hackster round-up time again!Then Microsoft says it's completed research on a data storage technology which encodes voxels into glass sheets to store terabytes for tens of thousands of years.
...but, at the moment, requires a room-filling femtosecond laser setup and a stupidly high-resolution camera to read the data back, so don't expect it in a laptop any time soon.
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What time is it?What time is it? Well, about five to four by my clock, but more importantly it's #Hackster round-up time!
First, for those who've got a shiny new #Arduino UNO Q on their desks, a new Arduino App Lab which adds some nice quality-of-life features including easy project import and export.
Also, it apparently takes 10GB of temporary storage to update your Arduino UNO Q(!)
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"List all email addresses you've used over the last ten years" -
An unplugged kettle never boils.@dtl An unplugged kettle never boils *at one or more atmospheres of pressure*.
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"List all email addresses you've used over the last ten years"@vkc I use a catch-all on my domain, so my answer to that is always "yourcompanyname at halfacree.co.uk".
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I'm not sure if I should be worried about what my fridge-freezer's temperatures are doing@philpem I had a Beko fridge and freezer (separate, under-counter things) - and they were crap. The fridge especially.
The new fridge/freezer is a Hoover, of all brands to stick on one - and it's much better, swinging from -21 to -13°C on the freezer side during an automatic defrost cycle. No more melted lollies!
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I'm not sure if I should be worried about what my fridge-freezer's temperatures are doing@philpem At a guess, your fridge-freezer is "frost free" and your garage freezer isn't.
The "frost free" ones blow (relatively) warm air around on a cycle in order to melt and evaporate frost, then go back to cooling before anything's ruined.
(Is the theory: I had to send a Fridgemaster back 'cos it failed at the last part and kept melting stuff in the freezer...)
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Some for the smart-home crowd next with the #ESPHome 2026.1.0 release.As always, you can read all of that ad- and tracker-free over the #GeminiProtocol.
No, I won't stop going on about the Gemini protocol. It's ace.
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Some for the smart-home crowd next with the #ESPHome 2026.1.0 release.And to finish, an automated fish feeder designed for accurate dispensing of very small amounts of food for littler fish - built using an #Arduino Nano, 3D-printed, and laser-cut parts.
Oh, and everything's been published so you can build your own.
#Technology #News #Makers #3DPrinting #LaserCutting #Pets #Hackster
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Some for the smart-home crowd next with the #ESPHome 2026.1.0 release.Some for the smart-home crowd next with the #ESPHome 2026.1.0 release. It brings with it automatic Wi-Fi roaming, improved security, and a biiiig overhaul that means el cheapo Espressif ESP8266 devices are first-class citizens again. Huzzah!
#Technology #News #Hackster #IoT #HomeAssistant #Microcontroller
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Been a bit of a hectic day today, so the #Hackster round-up is a little later than usual.It's the first time I'm saying it this week, but it won't be the last: that's all also available via the #GeminiProtocol, ad- and tracker-free.
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Been a bit of a hectic day today, so the #Hackster round-up is a little later than usual.And finally, David Johnson-Davies has released a new board designed to offer synthesiser-inspired customisable control over animations and patterns displayed on up-to-160-long NeoPIxel and DotStar RGB LED strips, rings, and matrices.
#Technology #RGB #Microcontroller #Lighting #OpenHardware #News #Hackster
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Been a bit of a hectic day today, so the #Hackster round-up is a little later than usual.(I know I said I was only doing four a day, but what can I say? I'm an overachiever.)
There's a startup called CANDYSIGN heading to @crowdsupply soon with the HummingKit, a "software-defined charger" for USB Power Delivery work.
No relation to the old HummingBoards I've probably still got in a drawer somewhere...
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Been a bit of a hectic day today, so the #Hackster round-up is a little later than usual.A new chip from Espressif next, the ESP32-E22 - its first to boast tri-band (2.4/5/6GHz) Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.
It's being positioned as a communications coprocessor, but with two RISC-V cores running at 500MHz there's a heck of a lot of compute in that dinky package.
#Technology #InternetOfThings #IoT #WiFi #Bluetooth #News #Hackster
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Been a bit of a hectic day today, so the #Hackster round-up is a little later than usual.Then some great work from Dr. Scott M. Baker in restoring an old CRT display - by polishing out its "cataracts."
Have at look at this one if only for the before-and-after shots, they're great!
#Technology #VintageComputing #Repair #Displays #News #Hackster
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Been a bit of a hectic day today, so the #Hackster round-up is a little later than usual.A power supply HAT for the #RaspberryPi that goes further than most, next, by offering not only respectably wide input voltage range and full 5V5A output *but* power control based on time, temperature, and input voltage.
#Technology #SingleBoardComputer #PowerSupply #News #Hackster