Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta (formerly recognised as Fb), has introduced a new aspect rollout on WhatsApp that will make it uncomplicated to start off and be a part of an audio/video clip phone. The characteristic is regarded as “Contact Links“, which can presently be discovered in […]
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NASA’s DART spacecraft hits the bull’s eye on an asteroid
An image from NASA’s DART spacecraft displays the asteroid Didymos at decrease appropriate and Dimorphos, a moonlet that orbits Didymos, at upper center. (NASA / JHUAPL Photograph) Ten months just after NASA’s DART spacecraft was aimed at a mini-asteroid, the probe strike the bull’s eye now in a practice spherical […]
B.C. regional government acknowledges cyber attack
A British Columbia municipality has acknowledged currently being the sufferer of a cyber assault just above two months ago. The admission designed now arrives just after the LockBit ransomware gang listed the Sunshine Coast Regional District on its facts breach web-site. “On Thursday, September 8 and for most of Friday, […]
Adding A Third Wheel (And Speed Boost) To An Electric Scooter
The story of how [Tony]’s three-wheeled electric scooter came to be has a beginning that may sound familiar. One day, he was browsing overseas resellers and came across a new part, followed immediately by a visit from the Good Ideas Fairy. That’s what led him to upgrade his DIY electric […]
A Spreadsheet For The Python Hacker
You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that merges these worlds. It looks like a spreadsheet, but underneath are SQLite tables and the […]
Robots Chase Down Balls In Fun Outdoor Game
Art installations aren’t always about static sculpture or pure aesthetics. In the case of Operation Kiba, they can be fun games for everyone to enjoy. The aim of Operation Kiba is for the players to collect all the “balls” on the playing field, which are intended to represent scoops of […]
3D Print Yourself A Tiny Steam Train Complete With Smoke Effects
Model trains are fun, but sometimes little whirring motors in electric models feel a long way from the hulking metal beasts of the real railways. [Lewis] of [DIY Machines] adds back some of the flavor with this little steam train build, smoke effects included! The body of the train itself […]
It’s Pi All The Way Down With This Pi-Powered Pi-Picking Robot
While most of us live in a world where the once ubiquitous Raspberry Pi is now as rare as hens’ teeth, there’s a magical place where they’ve got so many Pis that they needed to build a robotic dispenser to pick Pi orders. And to add insult to injury, they […]
Glass 3D Printing Via Laser
If you haven’t noticed, diode laser engraver/cutters have been getting more powerful lately. [Cranktown City] was playing with an Atomstack 20 watt laser and wondered if it would sinter sand into glass. His early experiments were not too promising, but with some work, he was able to make a crude […]
A Vacuum Pick Up Tool For Not A Lot
When working with grain-of-dust surface-mount components, one of the tools which makes a huge difference is a vacuum pickup pen. Instead of trying to move the part with tweezers and succeeding only in flicking it into the middle distance, a tiny rubber suction cup with a vacuum feed allows you […]