Hackaday (unofficial) April 29, 2024 6:00am AI Can Now Compress Text #artificialintelligence #llama #textcompression #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 AI Can Now Compress Text There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are true, others stretch definitions a…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 29, 2024 3:00am Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck #cyberdecks #cyberdeck #fallout #raspberrypi #teensy #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck There’s always an appeal to a cool-looking computer case or cyberdeck – and with authentic-looking Vault-Tec style, [Eric B] and [kc9psw]’s fallout-themed cyberdeck is no exceptio…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 29, 2024 12:00am Hackaday Links: April 28, 2024 #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #slider #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Links: April 28, 2024 Well, it’s official — AI is ruining everything. That’s not exactly news, but learning that LLMs are apparently being used to write scientific papers is a bit alarming, and Andrew …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 9:00pm You Can Run BASIC On an Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer #retrocomputing #basic #hp #protocolanalyzer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 You Can Run BASIC On An Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer What do you do when you find an ancient piece of test gear and want to have fun? Well, you can always try getting BASIC running on it, and that’s precisely what [David Kuder] did. The HP4952A…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 6:00pm Corral Some Zippy Blue Flames Into 3D Printed Troughs #science #3dprinted #combustion #flame #movingflame #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Corral Some Zippy Blue Flames Into 3D Printed Troughs [Steve Mould] came across an interesting little phenomenon of blue flames zipping around a circular track. This led to diving down a bit of a rabbit hole about excitable mediums, ultimately leading…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 3:00pm Boneblocker Is A Big LED Wall That Rocks #ledhacks #led #ledwall #wled #ws2812b #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Boneblocker Is A Big LED Wall That Rocks [Nick Lombardy] took on a job almost every maker imagines themselves doing at some point. He built a giant LED wall and he did a damn fine job of it, too. Introducing BoneBlocker. BoneBlocker is an…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 12:00pm The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80! #parts #asic #tinytapeout #z80 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80! It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. This was the part that gave so many engineers a…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 9:00am Train a GPT-2 LLM, Using Only Pure C Code #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #softwaredevelopment #ai #gpt #gpt2 #llm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Train A GPT-2 LLM, Using Only Pure C Code [Andrej Karpathy] recently released llm.c, a project that focuses on LLM training in pure C, once again showing that working with these tools isn’t necessarily reliant on sprawling developmen…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 6:00am Pi Pico Gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator #retrocomputing #emulator #pipico #zxspectrum #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pi Pico Gets A ZX Spectrum Emulator The Pi Pico is a capable microcontroller that can do all kinds of fun and/or useful things. In the former vein, [antirez] has ported a ZX Spectrum emulator to the Pi Pico. ZX2040, as it is known, i…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 3:00am Wine in Beverage Cans Had a Rotten Egg Problem, Until Now #chemistryhacks #science #aluminumcan #beveragecan #rottenegg #wine #winemaking #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Wine In Beverage Cans Had A Rotten Egg Problem, Until Now Aluminum beverage cans are used for all kinds of drinks, but when it comes to wine there are some glitches. Chief among them is the fact that canned wine occasionally smelled like rotten eggs. Than…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2024 12:00am RGB LED HexaClock Doesn’t Actually Light Up the Night #clockhacks #clock #esp8266 #rgbleds #thiccwires #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 RGB LED HexaClock Doesn’t Actually Light Up The Night Who says a clock can’t be both useful and beautiful? That seems to be the big idea behind the lovely little HexaClock from [Bulduper]. And boy, is it both. Probably the most important part of…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 6:00pm 3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #adapter #chickfila #chicken #cupholder #nuggets #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway So often, we see 3D printers used to create some nifty little tool for a tricky little job. Maybe it’s to lock cams together for a timing belt change, or to work as a jig for soldering some c…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 3:00pm Welcome Back, Voyager #hackadaycolumns #news #space #machinelanguage #newsletter #voyager #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Welcome Back, Voyager In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 12:00pm Photo Shows Real Spiders From Mars #space #esa #mars #spiders #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Photo Shows Real Spiders From Mars A cornerstone of early 1970s rock music culture was the British singer David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, along with his backing band the Spiders from Mars. You can tell that the PR departm…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 9:00am How Additional Aerodynamic Drag Helped Make GTA III Work on PS2 #playstationhacks #softwarehacks #gaming #grandtheftauto #gta #playstation #playstation2 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 How Additional Aerodynamic Drag Helped Make GTA III Work On PS2 The PlayStation 2 was a revelation when it hit the market in 2000, and yet by modern standards, it’s almost hopelessly weak. In fact, it’s so under-powered, Rockstar developers had to p…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 6:00am Nearly-Destroyed Commodore Gets New Life #retrocomputing #circuitboard #commodore #pc20 #pcb #rebuild #restoration #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Nearly-Destroyed Commodore Gets New Life We all have our shiny, modern computers for interacting with the modern world, but at times they can seem a little monochromatic. Even the differences between something like macOS and Windows for t…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 3:00am Australian Library Uses Chatbot To Imitate Veteran With Predictable Results #machinelearning #ai #chatbot #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Australian Library Uses Chatbot To Imitate Veteran With Predictable Results The educational sector is usually the first to decry large language models and AI, due to worries about cheating. The State Library of Queensland, however, has embraced the technology in controvers…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2024 12:00am Keep Tabs on PC Use with Custom Analog Voltmeter #computerhacks #computer #cpu #desktop #display #esp32 #leds #monitor #pwm #rgb #usage #voltmeter #windows #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Keep Tabs On PC Use With Custom Analog Voltmeter With the demands of modern computing, from video editing, streaming, and gaming, many of us will turn to a monitoring system of some point to keep tabs on CPU usage, temperatures, memory, and other…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 26, 2024 9:00pm Build Your Own Class-E Musical Tesla Coil #musicalhacks #plasma #singingteslacoil #teslacoil #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Build Your Own Class-E Musical Tesla Coil We’ve all seen a million videos online with singing Tesla coils doing their thang. [Zach Armstrong] wasn’t content to just watch, though. He went out and built one himself! Even better,…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 26, 2024 7:00pm 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Spray Bottle Turret Silences Barking #contests #homehacks #raspberrypi #2024homesweethomeautomation #barking #dog #heatseeking #turret #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Spray Bottle Turret Silences Barking Ah, dogs. They sure like to bark, don’t they? [rrustvold]’s dog likes to bark at the door when a package arrives. Or when someone walks by the house, or whenever the mood strikes, reall…