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Building an Interactive Plotter Art Installation
A behind-the-scenes essay on building an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH, covering the planning, applicatio…
Building Grove
A builder's write-up of Grove, a 2016 Burning Man installation of interactive trees that come alive to a visitor's breat…
Building My Own CPU Architecture and Virtual Machine
A developer's tale of designing a 16-bit CPU instruction set, writing an emulator for it in C, and banging his head agai…
Burning a NeXTCube (1993)
Simson Garfinkel's famous 1993 post telling how a NeXTcube was set on fire, a darkly funny piece of early Internet lore.
CAN Injection: Keyless Car Theft
A detective story about how a car got stolen with a tiny device plugged into its headlight wiring, and how that led to u…
Can You Reverse Engineer Our Neural Network?
Jane Street presents a machine learning puzzle: given a trained network and no documentation, work out what it actually…
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Candle Flicker LEDs With a Built-in Timer
A teardown of the tiny chips inside candle-flicker LEDs, showing how a cheap integrated circuit mimics a real flame and…
Canvas 3D Renderer
A write-up of building a 3D renderer on top of the plain 2D HTML canvas, explaining how the projection and drawing code…
Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
The story of the Carpentopod, a wireless walking wooden coffee table built from an optimized linkage mechanism, covering…
Casio TM-100 Transmitter Watch
A look at the 1987 Casio TM-100, a digital watch with a hidden FM transmitter you could tune into on a radio, from a sit…
Chasing Cats
A homemade project log in which a neural network watches the front yard through a camera and turns on the sprinklers whe…
Choose Boring Technology
A talk-turned-essay on why teams should spend a limited budget of innovation tokens wisely and pick well-understood tool…
Clay PCB Tutorial
A step-by-step guide to making printed circuit boards out of wild-dug clay, mixing hackerspace craft with ceramics and l…
Clinique Vestimentaire
A scroll-through visual story on Jeanne Vicerial's Clinique Vestimentaire, where bio-inspired knitting and weaving robot…
Compressing and Enhancing Hand-Written Notes
A detailed write-up of a program that cleans up scans of handwritten notes, using color clustering to shrink file size w…
Computers Cannot Make Decisions
A short essay unpacking the famous idea that a computer can never be held accountable and therefore must never make a ma…
Compyx: A Multicolor 8-bit Font for Browsers
A typographic hack in the browser: how a multicolor C64-style 8-bit font was built from layered glyphs, with live specim…
Concorde
A quick-fire list of surprising Concorde facts, from the fuselage stretching 30cm at Mach 2 to engineers wedging their c…
Concorde 'B'
A detailed look at Concorde B, the quieter, longer-range version with new engines and redesigned wings that was fully de…
Converting a $20 4G Wireless Hotspot into a Texting Device
A hacker's write-up on turning a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a dedicated texting device, with the hardware tricks and t…
Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting?
A back-of-the-envelope engineering look at whether drilling heat out of the Yellowstone supervolcano could prevent an er…
Counting People with Machine Learning
A project write-up on counting foot traffic from IP webcam feeds with machine learning, walking through the detection ap…
Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
Roy Longbottom benchmarks the legendary Cray-1 supercomputer against modern home computers, phones and tablets, showing…
Creating Land-Use Maps with an HP 7475A Plotter
A hands-on story of reviving a vintage HP 7475A pen plotter to draw colorful land-use maps of cities, with photos of the…
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