This week
- I almost ordered parts for a circuit that would have destroyed itself the instant I powered it on. Instead, an LLM caught the critical flaw in my design, saving me time and money. While I regularly see value in using LLMs in my coding projects, this is the first time I have seen...
Last week
- Last year my roommate and I found an old original iMac G3 outside our apartment building. It has some interesting early 2000s/late 90s style websites and files on it that I want to preserve (and hope to share here soon!). But I realized getting files off of it wouldn't be easy....
about 2 months ago
- A journey of a thousand doofy hardware projects starts with a single Adafruit blink...
- The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, and our balls. While Ocean Cleanup is...
3 months ago
- I recently got my hands on a GMKTec Evo X2 for local model inference. Here's my hardware details nish@gmktec-evo-x2:~$ sudo lshw -short H/W path Device Class Description ========================================================= system NucBox_EVO-X2 (EVO-X2-001) /0 bus GMKtec...
- Step by step instructions for monitoring your yellingist feathered neighbors....
- Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy....
- After setting up dozens of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices, I started to wonder: how hard could it be to build one from scratch? I needed a project to learn on, so I decided to create something fun: a device that alerts my neighbors when my kids go swimming,...
- A simple box with one button and one job: reminding me to push that button....
5 months ago
- In the Q&A session following my EuroPython 2025 presentation about the Microdot web framework, a member of the audience asked me what the performance of MicroPython running on a microcontroller is. This took me a bit by surprise, because I really had no way to quantify it, I...
6 months ago
- July 3, 2025 Steve Mould is a science YouTuber whose work I really enjoy. He recently posted a video showing off an OpenDrop device by GaudiLab. The device is mesmerizing, and he was able to get some simple games developed for it using CoPilot. He explains the physics behind the...
8 months ago
- Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregation… that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregating links (post on that coming later). Inside this issue you’ll find some games, some...
- My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and I entertained myself...
9 months ago
- This is the same post as “Disable/enable Pi-hole using Apple Shortcuts” that I published a few years back, but aligned with the 6th major release of Pi-hole. This little piece of software has been running at our place on a Raspberry Pi left and forgotten behind the cupboard for...
11 months ago
- Write-up of getting started with a CNC pen plotter...
12 months ago
- Hey, quick story about how I created my perfect phone dock. So I'm scrolling YouTube one day and stumble across this slick iPhone standby dock by Scott. video link Clean design, wireless charging, even a spot for AirPods. Love it. Only problem? I've......
- I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa....
about 1 year ago
- Take ownership—and responsibility—of your social data...
- I've been using a hand-me-down Sony a5000 as my webcam for nearly 4 years. There was one massive pain point though: every time I needed to focus, adjust zoom, or simply turn it on, I had to physically lean over my desk like a caveman and touch the ca......
- November 16, 2024 I am deeply touched by the warm response to my recent MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia post. It got much more circulation on Mastodon that I usually get, and overnight someone posted it to Hacker News — where it shot to the #1 story. I...
- November 12, 2024 Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia. The display has worked extremely well during those two years, so I’m sharing the basic set-up in case others find it useful for similar...
over 1 year ago
- Write-up of a bunch of laser-cut projects designed with Cuttle....
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