Month: September 2018

iCEstick Makes Terrible Radio Transmitter

We’ve done a lot of posts on how to use the Lattice iCEstick ranging from FPGA tutorials to how to use one as a logic analyzer. If you picked up one of these inexpensive boards here’s a fun little experiment. [T4D10N] saw a project [Hamster] put together to send SOS on the FM radio band…


System76’s Much-Anticipated Open Source ‘Thelio’ Linux Computer Will Be Available To Pre-Order Starting Next Month, But Shipping Date and Specs Remain Unclear

Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews: When you buy a System76 computer today, you aren’t buying a machine manufactured by the company. Instead, the company works with other makers to obtain laptops, which it then loads with a Linux-based operating system — Ubuntu or its own Pop!_OS. There’s nothing really wrong with this practice, but still,…


Tindie Guides That Hackaday Prize Entry Into Your Hands

The Hackaday Prize invites everyone to focus on specific challenges with encouragement of prize money and motivation of deadlines. But what happens after the award ceremony? While some creators are happy just to share their ideas, many projects need to get into the real world to make their full impact. Several past prize winners have…


Salesforce training program hopes to make finding diverse job candidates easy – CNET

The answer might well be a job fair that brings the candidates right to the event. …read more Source:: CNet


New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Are Now Used By 5 Million Users, Who Have Participated in 1 Billion Sessions and Make 500,000 Phone Calls a Month

An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City’s pedestrian walkways with more functional fixtures, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a competition — the Reinvent Payphones initiative — calling on private enterprises, residents, and nonprofits to submit designs for replacements….


iPhone XS vs. iPhone X: Just how much better is the new camera? – CNET

Looks like the same dual 12-megapixel cameras as last year. Trust us, they’re not. …read more Source:: CNet


Maker Faire NY: Getting Physical with Minecraft

If you’ve been hanging around Hackaday for a while, you’ve likely seen a few attempts to bridge the real world with the voxel paradise that is Minecraft. In the past, projects have connected physical switches to virtual devices in the game, or took chunks of the game’s blocky landscape and turned it into a 3D…


Apple iPhone XS Max OtterBox case roundup: Three options for adding rugged drop protection

The iPhone XS Max is Apple’s most expensive smartphone yet and while it offers a high level of dust and water resistance, it is still susceptible to drops. OtterBox is known for protecting your phones and has 48 options in eight different series. …read more Source:: ZDNet


New Spray-On Coating Can Make Buildings, Cars, and Even Spaceships Cooler

Long-time Slashdot reader davidwr and Iwastheone both submitted this story about “a paint-like coating that facilitates what is known as ‘passive daytime radiative cooling,’ or PDRC for short…when a surface can efficiently radiate heat and reflect sunlight to a degree that it cools itself even if it’s sitting in direct sunlight.” BGR reports on research…


Britain’s Fleet Air Arm Museum is an awesome show of sea air power – CNET

Celebrating over 100 years of naval air power, the stunning museum has loads of biplanes, iconic jets, and legendary supersonic aircraft. Here’s the full tour …read more Source:: CNet