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205 links saved from 2006 to 2026; 193 with a note, 95 in a Weekly Thing.
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- youtube.com 10, arstechnica.com 8, todayandtomorrow.net 4, nature.com 3, theverge.com 3
2026
- Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks
- We Designed the Most Advanced Storage System || 3D Printed
- Watt Window: See Your Energy Costs @ Minnedemo42
- Introducing dots
- Experimental demonstration of magnetic tunnel junction-based computational random-access memory | npj Unconventional Computing
- Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be/bn)
- Bambu Lab X2D Signals Potential Shift Toward Consumer-Focused 3D Printing Market « Fabbaloo
- How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
- A Year of 3D Printing
2025
- Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain
- Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes
- The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
- NVIDIA DGX Spark Arrives for World’s AI Developers
- Blackdot | Welcome to the Tattoo Revolution
- Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
- History of F1 design: 75 years of car racing technology
- I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
- NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Mentra Smart Glasses: The AI Agents Interface
- Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades
- QR is cool
- Understanding Solar Energy - Brian Potter
- the Seneca
- Our interfaces have lost their senses
- Project 2025 Tracker
- McLarens and CarPlay
2024
- Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
- The Tube Computer
- Busy Status Bar — Productivity Multi-tool Device with an LED pixel screen
- I Finally Lost My Smart Ring!
- The Teenage Engineering TP-7
- Our Unevenly Distributed Future
- Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses
- Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas
- Voyager 1 survives clogged thruster issue billions of miles away
- The Insane Engineering of the Gameboy
- Daring Fireball: ‘The Insane Engineering of the Gameboy’
- He created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine : NPR
- My long strange trip into home automation
- How a 64k intro is made
- Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
- Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
- Calendar types in Watches
- NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager
- An Electric New Era for Atlas
- GDC Vault - The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?
- How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet
- An IRC client in your motherboard | Phillip Tennen
- Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird
- Hack your brain with Obsidian.md
- Cheap but lethally accurate: how drones froze Ukraine’s frontlines
2023
- Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
- NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away
- Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
- NINTENDO - 43 Biggest SECRETS
- Farming: Satellite failure ‘cripples’ farmers as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt
- An Anti-Smartphone With a Rotary Designed and Built by Space Engineer Justine Haupt
- Previous - A NeXT Computer Emulator
- A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound
- The Camera Shy Hoodie
- Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation Facility: A new engineering approach for harvesting emission-free green volcanic energy on a national scale
2022
2021
- Scan of the Month - December — Airpods
- Playdate Owners Update #1
- computer–1
- Turing Pi V2 is here
- The quiet rise of E Ink Tablets and Infinite Paper Note Takers
- Inside The Manufacture: Inside All Four Rolex Manufacturing Facilities
- Surviving an In-Flight Anomaly: What Happened on Ingenuity’s Sixth Flight
- Folklore.org: Busy Being Born
- Vizy
- I’m Afraid I Kind of Like Digital Paper
- How I’ve improved my remote presentation setup
- The S in IOT is for Security
- Every Big Vehicle Should Look Like the Weird New USPS Truck
- Google researcher discovers new iOS security system
- WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
- Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
2020
- Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC
- Steve Blank The Coming Chip Wars
- Download Ventilator Files
- MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100
- I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning
- YETI "V Series" Vacuum-Insulated Cooler
- NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
- Nintendo Switch overtakes SNES with more than 52 million sold
2019
- Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History
- H.264 is magic: a technical walkthrough of a remarkable technology.
- Crappy Range Imaging for < $175, But Still No Moore's Law for LIDAR. Yet.
- Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure—Stephen Wolfram Blog
- WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
- reMarkable | The paper tablet
- Nike's Self-Lacing Adapt BB Basketball Shoe Is Actually Smart
2018
- The Verge Holiday Gift Guide 2018
- littleBits: Award-winning electronic building blocks for creating inventions large and small
- Tools & Craft - Episode 01: Andy Hertzfeld
- Meet Surface Hub 2 - Microsoft Devices BlogMicrosoft Devices Blog
- Nina Makes | Builds | NeXT Computer Replica - Raspberry Pi Case
- CRISPR-Cas9 Improved 10,000-Fold by Synthetic Nucleotides
- A New Way to Work
- Nintendo Labo Official Site – Trailer, product information
- Encryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California
2017
- Behind the Magic: How we built the ARKit Sudoku Solver
- How to build a dashboard for your grill using Arduino and React
- AUTOMATICA
- The Learning Water Meter - FLUID
- Super Mario Bros Recreated as Life Size Augmented Reality Game
- jstumble
- Sisyphus Industries
- The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers
- Turing Tumble: Gaming on a Mechanical Computer by Paul Boswell
- The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
- From Tools to Tool Uses - Study Hacks
2016
- VW Doubleback: Hacked Camper Van Unfolds into Huge Mobile Home
- The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
- Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering book
- A Complete History of the Millennium Falcon
- 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016
- Atlas, The Next Generation
- The Best BB-8 Yet Recognizes Voice Commands and Comes When It's Called
- The Story Behind f.lux, the Night Owl's Color-Shifting Sleep App of Choice
2015
- Charles Babbage, perfectionist engineer
- The tiniest Lego: a tale of nanoscale motors, rotors, switches and pumps : Nature News & Comment
- The Setup / Severine von Tscharner Fleming
- weputachipinit
- Xerox PARC Materials Scientists Print Two Thirds of a Battery in 1 Go
- Cube Drone - - Relentless Persistence
- Inside the CERN Control Centre
2014
2013
2012
- Giraffe : A Graphite Dashboard with a long neck
- Breville - The Naked Espresso
- Technology built into mannequins helping stores track customers
- Wii U teardown shows a whole lot of wirelessness
- Windows 8: Operating Under the Influence
- MBDyn - MultiBody Dynamics
- The Worlds Most Advanced Satellites, As Wooden Toys
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
- Detailed Technical Analysis of the Lightning Connector
- Electroluminescent wire
- Laser Line Generators
- Going Colo (Pinboard Blog)
- CERN Physicists May Have Discovered Higgs Boson Particle
- GCDC X16-1C Usb-Accelerometer 3-axis Data Recorder
- Solid-state revolution: in-depth on how SSDs really work
- 25 years of HyperCardthe missing link to the Web
- Elevation Dock Manufacturing
- Datamancer Ergo Steampunk ergonomic keyboard
- Das Keyboard: The mechanical keyboard that clicks
- Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes
- Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
2011
- Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups
- Cutting the cord: how the world's engineers built Wi-Fi
- Wireless network can watch your breathing
- Ergotron 33-342-200 WorkFit-S Sitting Standing Desk Mount Computer Workstation for LCD monitor
- My Standing Desk Experiment
- Why F1 steering wheels have over 20 buttons – and what they all do | F1 technology
- Trellis Hardware by Hayn Lines
- F.lux: software to make your life better
- Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
- Seabreacher X
- Arduino
- Working 16bit ALU Implemented in Minecraft
- Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
2010
- Ninjas Unbox a Nexus S
- Swarm Light is an $180k LED chandelier controlled by an iPhone
- ‘An Atom-Based Product, Developed in Bits’
- How a watch works
- Intel supercomputer predicts the path of Gulf oil spill (video)
- Slurp digital eyedropper sucks up, injects information wirelessly (video)
- OWC Slim ExpressCard/34 to eSATA Adapter... (EXP34SATA2F1) at OWC