Author: Jack Slater
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Emugotchi
There’s a lot to love about the custom mechanical keyboard community, especially when there are major innovations in the underlying technology. One of the most innovative mechanical keyboards is the Emugotchi macropad. It is shaped a little bit like an egg or Tamagotchi, and uses a M5Stack Core2 ESP32 microcontroller that appears to be more like…
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The Secret Life of Components: Sensors
Tim Hunkin helped us peek into The Secret Life of Machines on TV three decades ago with his colleague Rex Garrod. In the meantime Hunkin had also made custom, extremely silly, arcade machines and other inventions. Last year Hunkin was inspired by other creators and returned to video with a new series of eight episodes called…
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Homebrew Package Manager Founder Turns Crypto Grifter
There have been a variety of third-party command-line package management utilities for Mac computers that all really make the Mac’s terminal a good place to get things done with modern packages since Apple doesn’t provide a package management system for the command line like other Unixes do. MacPorts, Fink, and the newest and I think…
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Avoiding Lost Mail After Migrating From Google Workspace
Early in January Google started telling users of the free tier of Google Workspace (previously G Suite and Google Apps for Work) that they had until July 1st of 2022 to pay up or the service would shut off. I’ve been a user of that service for years, and the various projects I work on used…
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Densha de GO! PSVR Mode Looks Like Good Fun
Densha de GO! is a series of train simulator games from Taito that require so much from their players, even honking at the right time for virtual rail fans in the game. Alex from The Yamanote channel on YouTube and Twitch plays PlayStation 4 Densha de GO!! Hashirou Yamanote Sen in the video above with…