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Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams march to the beat of the hardware hacking drum as they recount the greatest hacks to hit the ‘net this week. First up: Casio stepped in it with a spurious DMCA takedown notice. There’s a finite matrix of resistors that form a glorious …read more
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The United States is a difficult country to live in if you believe in anything. Our nations institutions fail us frequently and disastrously; our politics favor corporations over people; our cultural discourse is frequently weighted toward the cynical and disingenuous. Faith must be practiced, and a belief in most things social justice, an equitable society, even the American Dream is rarely rewarded.
Religious faith is even harder. Any non-Christian belief is barely recognized or accommodated, and even if you fall into a form of widely accepted Christianity, its prominence in the culture is rarely felt from within, eschewed in favor of an endless war against secular culture. America is not a nation of believers, and our pop…
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British car manufacturer McLaren has confirmed that its partnership with OnePlus has reached its scheduled conclusion in what is likely to mean the end for OnePlus McLaren-branded handsets. Since the start of this partnership in 2018, OnePlus has been a supportive, valued partner, McLaren said in a statement given to Android Authority, adding, We wish them well and hope to see them in the future.
OnePlus partnership with McLaren has resulted in the release of several handsets, frequently offered with unique designs and higher specs and price tags compared to the rest of the handset lineup. Last years McLaren Edition of the OnePlus 7T Pro, for example, came with a black-and-orange color scheme and 12GB rather than 8GB of RAM. The…
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Today and going forward, billions of tiny devices will act as an extension of our brains, feelings and emotions as a natural extension of everyday life.
I have long been a fan of pan-searing steaks and finishing their roast in the oven. Previously, I’d either thaw the steaks in the fridge overnight or I would sous vide them instead of using the oven, and sear them at the end.
This technique: thawing the surface of the steak enough to hold seasoning and then starting the pan sear is wonderful. I have found that sous vide from frozen to be ok but not my favorite. Read the rest
We’ll be honest right up front: there’s nothing new in [David Cambridge]’s brushless motor and controller build. If you’re looking for earth-shattering innovation, you’d best look elsewhere. But if you enjoy an aimless use of just about every technique and material in the hacker’s toolkit employed with extreme craftsmanship, then …read more
In this instalment of our ongoing series around making the most of your at-home video setup, we’re going to focus on one of the most important, but least well understood or implemented parts of the equation: Lighting. While it isn’t actually something that requires a lot of training, expertise or even equipment to get right, […]
When I was last at Maker Faire Rome, I saw this really cool machine that was cutting foam boards with precision. I really liked how it gave another method of working with easily sourced materials very quickly and easily, so I kept an eye on them. They’re now ready to […]
The post Making Quick and Accurate Shapes With A Desktop CNC Foam Cutter appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers.
In this post, we are going to build a Pokemon index using Pokemon API in plain Javascript. First, lets discuss what this project is about. There will be a search bar where users can come and search for a Pokemon, and after the search, Pokemon with its image and stats, as a result, will be shown. So, the functionality is pretty basic but you using this project as a base can tweak and make your own version of this project and add it to your portfolio.
The full version is deployed at https://poke-mon.now.sh/.
Part of the Apiumhub Frontend team had the opportunity to attend the React Next conference in Tel Aviv, a conference focused mainly on React and React Native. There, we had the opportunity to attend very interesting talks about React frameworks, optimization, and performance improvement of the React code, SEO with an SPA, and many others.
The talk that caught my attention was Modern React The Essentials by Liad Yosef, in which he explained the latest React news, such as React Hooks, concurrent mode, suspense, lazy.
Personally, I was very interested in the use of React Hooks, and how this could change the development of React, so I will explain the main uses of Hooks in this article.
JavaScript (and its ecosystem) is a language thats evolving really fast. New libraries and frameworks appear at a frantic pace, offering new architectures and functionalities. In past articles, weve seen what TypeScript has in store for us as well as how to easily migrate from an old project to this JS Superset. Todays article will be slightly different: this time, Id like to show a couple of examples about how we can apply Functional Programming in JavaScript.
To that end, well use Ramda-fantasy, a library of powerful abstractions offering a big set of Monads, and another library called Ramda, which will help us build functional pipelines and achieve immutability. Before we get started, though, a reminder: these arent the only libraries that offer these functionalities; search long enough and you can easily find perfectly valid alternatives.
If anyone steps inside the circle youre legally allowed to fight them. | GIF: Google
As lockdown measures are eased around the world, its more important than ever to observe proper health protocol in public. That means wearing a mask (if you can), washing your hands regularly, and social distancing. This last step can be the trickiest, but Google has released a handy augmented reality tool that makes things a little easier.
If youve got an Android device, just open up the Chrome browser and go to goo.gle/sodar to launch the tool, named SODAR. Theres no app required, though it wont work on iOS or older Android devices. Your phone will use augmented reality to map the space around you, superimposing a two-meter radius circle on the view from your camera.
Sodar – use WebXR to help visualise social distancing…
Several months into this pandemic, you can no doubt already eyeball six feet/two meters with the best of them. But if youre still having trouble and happen to have an Android device handy Googles got you covered, I guess. The latest project out of the companys Experiments With Google collection, Sodar is a […]
There’s still magic in the world, as evidenced by this fairy’s-eye view of Children’s Fairyland, that charming 70-year-old storybook theme park in Oakland, California.
You might remember that when I’m not blogging, I work with Fairyland. WELL… months before we were mandated to shelter in place, a local photographer, Stephen Loewinsohn, contacted our team at Fairyland. He wanted to know if he could come in and capture the park by drone. He showed us some of his work samples (um, wow) and told us he was a lifelong fan of the park. He also told us the finished product would be a gift to us, no strings attached. OF COURSE we said yes! Naturally, none of us realized at the time that it would be the first comprehensive look our community would get from inside the park for months. But that’s part of what makes it extra special. We premiered the video on Thursday evening, with great success, as the “cherry on top” to our reopening fundraising announcement.
At my request, Stephen shared his inspiration and thoughts on creating this video:
I grew up in Oakland and went to Fairyland as a kid. Now I have two young kids of my own, so Fairyland is a really special place for me and my family.
I’ve been working as a professional photographer and filmmaker in the Bay Area for many years, and lately I’ve been experimenting with building and flying custom camera drones with amazing acrobatic capabilities for specialized filming applications.
Hunting around for an outlet or a power battery when youre trying to charge your phone or tablet is always an annoyance. But when youre out in the world hiking or camping or traveling, finding an outlet might be more than a minor inconvenience…it might be downright impossible.
Running low on battery power isnt an option anybody looks forward to these days, especially if youre out and about and may need that phone in the event of any emergency.
Thankfully, the RAVPower 24W 3-Port Solar Charger takes advantage of the fact that the worlds most powerful battery is almost always right there overhead: the Sun.
Actually, the RAVPower is really more than a traditional charger. Unlike bulky brick-style chargers, the RAVPower is its own solar panel, half the weight of other chargers. Just unfold it from its tiny, compact carrier and aim it at the Sun as its high-efficiency solar cells start juicing up.
Converting nearly a quarter of available solar power into free energy, the RAVPower is a fast, effective, lightweight charger for use in almost any condition. In fact, you can even throw the RAVPower over the back of your pack, plug in your phone, and watch your device power up while you keep moving.
It charges up to two USB-powered devices simultaneously and can take a smartphones battery from zero to fully charged in the space of about 3 to 4 hours. The RAVPower uses iSmart technology to automatically adjust to your connected devices, serving up the optimal charging current evenly to everything you have plugged in in the shortest possible charging time. Read the rest
“Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. YEAH YEAH YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH” — Blue the husky.
Astronaut David Scott re-created, in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, Galileo’s “falling bodies” experiment by dropping a hammer and feather on the moon at the same time. Simply, both fell at the same rate because there was no air resistance.
screengrab via Wonders of Physics/YouTube
John Waters was slated to give the New York’s School of Visual Arts’ commencement speech at Radio City Music Hall. Instead, he gave a different version of that keynote in front of a green screen, quarantined in his Baltimore home. Of course, it was still hilarious (“Tiger King” porno knockoff, anyone?) and still full of hard-earned wisdom.
“Artists are magicians: you can see what others can not, have a secret language, the power to make others follow… and you can change history with one ludicrous idea. While youre still young, maybe its time to become a virus yourselfa good kind of virus, one fueled by the years of hard work you put in at the incubator known as the School of Visual Arts. Artists, you are the cure, too. The only people that can inspire the world to notice and then alter its destructive behavior.
Congrats, “coronavirus class of 2020,” all of you, everywhere!
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