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Is Totally a Thing Now When [coral-bells] posted her first build to r/mechanicalkeyboards, she likely felt some trepidation.

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Those of us familiar with PCB work would agree that anything that helps hold probes secure and hands-free to components, ...

You can work with a part for many decades, and still learn something new about it. At least we can, and we don’t mind ...

In the world of large language models (LLMs) there tend to be relatively few upsets ever since OpenAI barged onto the scene ...

Over the last decade we have brought you frequent reports not from the coolest of hackerspaces or the most bleeding edge of engineering in California or China, but from the rolling prairies of the ...

We’re used to those high voltage projects which use a self-oscillating transformer circuit with a TV flyback winding, and we have even at times railed against them for their inefficiency ...

AI to control a virtual computer (in this case, Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use) is made to download and execute a piece of ...