Will Cogley on MSN

3D printed Arduino animatronic eye controller build

Here is the controller I designed for my 3D printed animatronic eye mechanisms. The main advantage it has over a traditional gaming controller is the ability to fine-tune a value (such as the openness ...

Arduino and Qualcomm Launch Hackster's First Developer Contest of 2026 Global Competition Kicks Off With 300 Arduino UNO Q Boards and Opportunities to Showcase Edge AI Innovation

Arduino and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have announced the launch of Hackster's first global developer contest of 2026, inviting engineers, makers, and innovators worldwide to build groundbreaking ...
The Verge

“The Wayback Machine is built for human readers.”

In an article for Techdirt, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham raises concerns about the impact of publications preventing the site from archiving their content due to AI scraping: What concerns me ...
Circuit Digest

DIY Raspberry Pi Pico Text-to-Speech Using Wit.ai

Type a sentence into the input bar at the top of the Serial Monitor and hit Enter to send it to the Wit.ai API. The console will log " Requesting TTS " followed by " Buffer ready, starting playback ," ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I wake my home PC from anywhere using an ESP32 and MQTT - Here’s how

No VPN or exposing ports necessary.
DualShockers

Best Bow Build in No Rest for the Wicked

One of the key aspects of No Rest for the Wicked is the ability to create complex builds using the game's attribute system combined with various types of weapons and armor. Thanks to this, you can ...
Geeky Gadgets

DIY Steam Machine Build with Framework Desktop and S4T Case

A DIY Steam Machine is a compact gaming PC that combines high performance with a small footprint, as detailed by Not From Concentrate. This guide focuses on building a system with just 3 liters of ...
Benzinga.com

First Von Neumann Machine

On Monday, user Ryan Dahl took to the social media platform X to share his views on SpaceX announcing the xAI merger, also sharing that the company eventually plans to launch 1TW of AI compute per ...
CNN

MAHA’s money man has built a political machine. Will it matter for midterms?

A sixth-generation farmer running for Iowa governor, Zach Lahn is the first MAHA-endorsed candidate of the 2026 election cycle. Running on a platform that includes taking on “Big Agriculture” and “Big ...
Futurism

Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines

If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...
Jalopnik

New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

You can't get something for nothing, and if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. However, the Aircela machine seems to be an exception to these rules, with its ability to create gasoline using ...