How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi(mirawelner.com)

102 points by mirawelner 1 year ago | 55 comments

Investigating SSMEC's (State Micro) 486s with the UCA(x86.fr)

53 points by apple4ever 2 years ago | 6 comments

How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?(oranlooney.com)

262 points by olooney 2 years ago | 99 comments

A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset(righto.com)

307 points by zdw 1 year ago | 80 comments

Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board computer (2020)(wtarreau.blogspot.com)

104 points by goodburb 3 years ago | 19 comments

DIY Macro PCB Photography(niemczuk.tech)

80 points by dsalzman 2 years ago | 17 comments

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video](youtube.com)

60 points by jackdoe 26 days ago | 8 comments

A 13-minute YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor demonstrating how to make solar panels using a microwave as part of the fabrication process.

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it(medium.com)

434 points by cyrc 10 months ago | 133 comments

A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video](youtube.com)

432 points by codetheweb 9 months ago | 97 comments

YouTube video by Rootkid showing a self-built light installation that visualizes nearby radio wave activity.

Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course(simonmonk.org)

342 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 87 comments

Book page for Simon Monk's 'Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Seventh Edition' with links to code and purchase options.

Radios, how do they work?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

613 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 101 comments

A blog post by lcamtuf giving a brief introduction to antennas, superheterodyne receivers, and signal modulation schemes for hobbyists.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.