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Bayleaf Wireless Keyboard
Sebastian Graz documents building the Bayleaf, a low-profile wireless ergonomic split keyboard made from scratch, with t…
Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
A playful dive into how emoji really work, showing how invisible joiner characters glue bear and snowflake into polar be…
Bedroom Producers Blog
A blog curating free and affordable virtual instruments, plugins, and sample packs for home recording musicians on a bud…
Belshazzar's Clock
A project write-up on a night clock that shows the time with a rotating luminous-painted drum lit by ultraviolet LEDs, c…
Benchma(r)king
James Bridle builds a chair with his hands to probe how bodily intelligence differs from AI, in a long illustrated essay…
Beskid
The story of the Beskid, a 1980s Polish small-car prototype from the FSM and BOSMAL engineers that anticipated the one-b…
Bits and Bytes: a 1980s Canadian TV show
A fond look at a 1980s Canadian TV series that explained computers to ordinary viewers, with clips and reflections on ho…
Black Triangles
Rampant Coyote explains the game developer idea of the black triangle, the unglamorous technical milestone that looks li…
Blocky Planet
A detailed, illustrated dive into the design problems of building a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like cubes, with i…
Boids
Craig Reynolds explains his 1986 Boids model of flocks, herds and schools: three simple steering rules, separation, alig…
Boing Boing
A long-running blog of curated wonderful things, covering technology, culture, art, gadgets, and the weird and offbeat.
Booting from a Vinyl Record
A retro-hacking experiment that loads a computer's boot code from a vinyl record, covering how the audio is encoded and…
Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier
A hardware-hacking story about cracking the filter DRM on an air purifier, with teardown photos, reverse engineering ste…
Bret Victor
The essay archive of interface designer Bret Victor, exploring interactive tools for thought, dynamic visualization, and…
Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand
A build log of a laptop stand cast from solid concrete in the style of brutalist architecture, drawing on themes of urbe…
B-trees in Factorio
A playful attempt to learn how database B-trees work by building them out of belts and logic in the factory-building gam…
Building a 42-Inch E Ink Art Frame
A build log of a 42-inch E Ink frame for displaying generative AI art in an office, covering the hardware choices and th…
Building a Dashboard with E-Ink Displays
A maker's write-up of building an e-ink calendar dashboard and the small UI toolkit that grew out of the project, with h…
Building a Game With a 6-Year-Old
A developer's essay on making and open-sourcing a game over Thanksgiving weekend with his 6-year-old son, and what the c…
Building a game with the Real Engine
A playful blog post about making a game with the Real Engine, meaning real-world physical materials instead of Unreal, w…
Building a GPS Receiver, Part 1: Hearing Whispers
The opening of a deep-dive series on building a GPS receiver from scratch, starting with how faint satellite signals are…
Building a Homebrew Video Game Console
An illustrated write-up of designing and building a retro-style video game console from scratch, covering the hardware c…
Building a T1D Smartwatch from Scratch
A father documents building a single-purpose smartwatch for his son with type 1 diabetes, covering hardware choices, enc…
Building a Web Search Engine From Scratch
A deep-dive write-up on building a web search engine in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings, from a GPU cluster…
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