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An IoT Device to Tell My Family I'm in a Meeting
A DIY write-up of Tabajara, a small IoT gadget that signals to the family at home when the author is in a meeting, cover…
An NFC Movie Library for My Kids
A parent builds a tactile movie library where kids tap an NFC-tagged card on a reader to start a film, recreating the jo…
Analyzing 50k Fonts Using Deep Neural Networks
Erik Bernhardsson scrapes 50,000 fonts and trains neural networks on them, then explores the learned font space with vis…
Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend
Teresa Ibarra charts 83,000 text messages from a relationship: message frequency, sentiment over time, the longest messa…
Android MegaPad
A 2011 build log for a homemade 23-inch Android tablet made for about 600 dollars, a DIY hardware project in the maker t…
Apollo 11 vs USB-C Chargers
A fun look at how the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer stacks up against a modern USB-C charger, with side-by-side numbers on…
Apple II History: The Apple-1
A detailed chapter on the Apple-1, from Wozniak's homebrew design and the Byte Shop order to how the board was built and…
Apple iPod engraver
A former Apple web designer recounts building the iPod engraving page for the online store in the mid-2000s, with design…
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Arcade Authorship - High Score Table Credits
How 1980s arcade designers, denied on-screen credit, smuggled their initials and names into default high score tables -…
Are You Living in a Simulation?
Nick Bostrom's original 2003 paper laying out the simulation argument, the reasoning that made 'we might be living in a…
Around the World, Part 30: Making Better Waves
A deep dive into rendering pixelated water waves, covering how the author models and draws ocean waves in a procedural w…
ASCII Characters Are Not Pixels
A beautifully illustrated deep dive into rendering images as sharp ASCII art, using shape vectors and interactive demos…
Aspen Moviemap
Michael Naimark's account of the Aspen Moviemap, the 1978 MIT project that let users virtually drive through Aspen decad…
Atari CX-2000
A museum page on the Atari CX-2000, a strange 1982 prototype 2600 redesign with built-in joysticks, explaining why Atari…
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
A tenant who spent months cold digs into the building's shared boiler system to find out why it never works, in an enter…
Audiokarma
A discussion forum devoted to home audio and vintage stereo gear, covering turntables, tube amps, speakers, and receiver…
Audiophile Style
A forum community focused on high-end audio playback, from turntables and DACs to amplifiers, run by hands-on hobbyists.
Augmenting Human Intellect
Douglas Engelbart's landmark 1962 report proposing computers as tools to boost human thinking, the vision behind the mou…
Authors with DRM-Free Books
A single-page list of authors who sell DRM-free books, helping readers find ebooks they can actually own, copy, and read…
Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks
A developer trains a neural network on millions of headlines and shares the hilariously plausible clickbait it invents,…
Automatypewriter
A hobbyist build log showing how an old electric typewriter was hacked with solenoids and a microcontroller so a compute…
Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught)
A student's funny story of writing code to get around a tedious online homework platform during lockdown, how it worked,…
Backyard approach lighting at Adelaide Airport
A photo-filled look at Adelaide Airport's runway approach lights, which stand in suburban streets and residents' backyar…
Balancing Cube
The build story of a self-made cube that balances itself on a single corner using reaction wheels, with videos, design d…
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