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Software, electronics and building stuff.

ElectronicsEmbedded / microcontrollersReverse engineering

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2026 4

  1. A Single-Serving Pack of ’70s Japanese Vacuum Tubes
  2. Retired 20-Year-Old Flip-Dot Display Rejoins the Workforce
  3. Reversing and Repurposing a Cool, Affordable VFD Clock
  4. Baby’s First Sheet Metal Fabrication

2025 4

  1. The Moka Lamp
  2. I Made Myself a Watch
  3. A Nerd and a Raspberry Pi Walk Into a Bar
  4. A Flexible LED Matrix Lamp

2024 2

  1. Making a Retro-Style Home Control Panel
  2. USB Power Delivery for Makers

2023 1

  1. spellcaster: A Home Automation Magic Wand

2022 2

  1. Building a Panel out of e-ink Electronic Shelf Labels
  2. A Digital Hydrometer for Beer Making

2021 3

  1. Reverse Engineering the Cat Printer Bluetooth Protocol
  2. Reverse Engineering the M6 Smart Fitness Bracelet
  3. How Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors Work

2020 1

  1. How to identify blurry images

2018 2

  1. Building an interpreted programming language from scratch
  2. Hacking a cheap fitness tracker bracelet

2017 2

  1. Advent of code and 25 days of Haskell
  2. A Slack bot for controlling the office's AC

2014 1

  1. Simulating dynamic systems in javascript