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Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper
A how-to post on building a small script that sets your desktop wallpaper from the album art of whatever music you are c…
Mapping the French Culinary Network
A data project write-up that extracts a knowledge graph of French restaurants and chefs from Le Fooding reviews using la…
Mastodon for Apple II
A retro-computing project that brings a working Mastodon client to the Apple II family, with screenshots and a downloada…
Mathematics of Animation
A slide deck that explains the math behind animation, showing how equations drive the motion of elements on screen in de…
Megabite
A write-up of an algorithm that automatically turns photos of food into faces, with the image-processing approach and th…
Memories - SizeCoding
An illustrated breakdown of Memories, a 256-byte demo that won Revision 2020, walking through the history of tiny visual…
Metadata Investigation: Inside Hacking Team
A visual investigation that maps leaked email metadata from the surveillance firm Hacking Team, showing how much about a…
MicroMac, a Macintosh for under 5 pounds
A maker walks through running a classic Macintosh on a tiny RP2040 microcontroller, with homemade video output and a wor…
MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy
A classic piece of hacker folklore: the rules for tourists using the MIT AI Lab's ITS machines in the days when the lab'…
Model Rocket Telemetry With a Raspberry Pi Zero
A hands-on write-up of capturing flight telemetry from a model rocket with a Raspberry Pi Zero, covering the sensors, th…
Modelling by Numbers
A hands-on tutorial series on procedural 3D geometry, teaching how to build models from numbers and code instead of scul…
Modern Microprocessors - A 90-Minute Guide
A fast-paced, well-illustrated introduction to how modern processors work, covering pipelining, superscalar execution, c…
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
A designer documents building small 3D-printed computers styled after vintage terminals, with photos of the design, prin…
Moirai: A Language for Procedural World Histories
A write-up of Moirai, a small language for generating timelines of facts, people, and events in the spirit of Dwarf Fort…
MomBoard
A touching account of an e-ink display built to help a parent with amnesia keep track of the day, and what two years of…
MP3 for Image Compression
A playful 2006 experiment that feeds photos through an MP3 audio encoder to see how well it compresses images, with side…
Mr. Baby Paint
A designer's tale of building a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers and stumbling onto a new flood-fill cell…
Muller's Recurrence
A walkthrough of Muller's recurrence, a simple formula that converges to the wrong answer in floating point arithmetic,…
Multi-Room Audio with Snapcast and Raspberry Pi
A hands-on write-up of building synchronized multi-room audio at home with the open-source Snapcast streamer and Raspber…
MusicTech
A magazine covering music technology with free tutorials, gear reviews, and interviews aimed at electronic music produce…
Muzique
A long-standing archive of DIY guitar effects pedal schematics, stompbox projects, and electronics reference articles.
My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone can't
A fond look at an HP Jornada palmtop from 2000 and the surprising things it still does that modern smartphones cannot, f…
My Broken ThinkPad Plays Music upon Booting
A puzzle-like investigation into a dead laptop that plays a strange tune at startup, involving spectrograms, murky video…
My Business Card Runs Linux
A hardware hacker designs a thin PCB business card that actually boots Linux, covering the chip choice, the tricks for s…
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