This printed bottle announces when its cap is loose — with no electronics inside
ShiftLens, a system from MIT, produces objects whose surface changes with the user's gesture: a bottle turns green when its cap is tightened. No sensor, no screen.
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The ‘Claude driver’ deleted Docker in 38 hours
The first working hack ran HP's Linux codec inside Colima. Thirty-eight hours later, the repository had removed it in favor of patched SpliX and a native CUPS USB backend.
Doom runs on a 2010 DSLR. Doom is the easy part
Doom now runs on a Canon EOS 550D using its screen, buttons and even its speaker. The port is really a map of everything developers had to learn about the camera first.
Mastodon 5.0 does not exist yet. Its foundation does
Mastodon is already showing the 5.0 interface, but there is no 5.0 release yet. The heavier admin work is actually arriving in 4.7.
This 256-bit key is pronounceable. So is a wrong one.
Sing-song turns arbitrary bytes into six-bit CV syllables. It is compact in speech and reversible, but its grammar is neither a checksum nor a complete identity.
Syntax highlighting can now live outside the DOM
Microlighter colors code with CSS Custom Highlight instead of wrapping every token in spans. We measured the real payload, DOM behavior, 37 grammars and all ten themes.
A good retrofit starts by leaving control alone
Edge Link shows how to add telemetry, a UNS and local AI to old equipment. Its current prototype is mostly upstream: remote control is exactly the part that should not be treated casually.
You put your phone down. It keeps talking
LEAK turns a phone’s network traffic into light and sound. The crucial detail is that the sculpture does not detect the act of putting the phone down: it becomes the phone’s route to the internet.
PicoCamera can see 1600×1200. Its RAM sees rather less
PicoCamera brings OV2640, OV3660 and OV7670 capture to RP2040/RP2350. For raw images, though, the real ceiling is not the sensor but the framebuffer.
This Casio hosts a BBS. The network lives somewhere else
A Casio VX-4 runs a BBS in BASIC while a Pi Zero W supplies its Internet connection. The arrangement forces a precise question: what does it mean to host a server?