You can turn an old Android into a Raspberry Pi alternative - but know this first

With AI-driven RAM shortages pushing Raspberry Pi prices sky high, here's how to repurpose your old handset into a portable ...
Hackaday

A Keyboard With No Keys

For as capable as smartphone hardware is, the software running on them can be especially restrictive and cumbersome. Unlike a ...
Hackaday

Junkbin, A Way To Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics

We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are ...
The New York Times

He Wanted to Be John Travolta. Instead, He Became ‘Kaves.’

As a child, Michael McLeer wanted to be like John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever” and escape Brooklyn. A tragedy in the neighborhood changed his mind. As a child, Michael McLeer wanted to be like ...
GitHub

ServoTimer2Plus is a small Arduino servo library that uses Timer2 instead of Timer1.

It is based on the original ServoTimer2 library by Michael Margolis (2008), updated for Arduino 1.x by Nick Bontrager in 2013. This version keeps the same basic idea, but cleans up the API and ...
Mongabay

Can coastal infrastructure be engineered to harbor marine life instead of harming it?

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Living Seawalls is a global initiative that aims to make seawalls, marinas and other hard coastal structures more hospitable to marine wildlife by ...
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Find out what they’re using instead of coffee in food commercials

Raphael Gomes exposes why photographers replace coffee with soy sauce during commercial food shoots. Pete Hegseth finally found someone to punish for Trump's embarrassing Qatari jet debacle ...
AOL

I Quit Buying These Common Items—Here's What I Use Instead

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many of us reach for single-use storage bags or makeup wipes without thinking twice. Overconsumption has ...
Science Daily

Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, ...
New York Post

Teen steroid use is down — the concerning booster they’re using instead

Steroid use is down among teenagers, but experts warn that young people are replacing it with a potentially dangerous booster. Researchers from the University of Michigan found that while anabolic ...
Reader's Digest

Get Off Your Phone! Here Are 28 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling

These easy, low-cost ideas help you break the doomscrolling cycle—and actually enjoy your time offline We’ve all been there: You open your phone for a quick email check—you swear you’re going to do ...