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I lived and worked on the HKUST campus in the 90's.. Very picturesque. Surrounding coastline very rugged. He picked a good spot. No egress there at the bottom of the hill. Fun fact…

There are very active technical discussions of nixies going on here https://groups.google.com/g/neonixie-l

I lived in HK in the 90's at the HK University of Science and Technology. It's out in the New Territories, surrounded by small villages and otherwise mostly undeveloped dense, low-…

I guess if we were on a conquest for universal adoption we can now say we've succeeded..

Hackaday interviewed me about the origin story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAwl3HN5ds&ab_channel=HACKA...

As one of the original creators of sudo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo ) I've witnessed it getting nearly totally rewritten and then incrementally bug-fixed over the last 43 …

I own a Manncorp MC-400 Pick and Place. Surprised wiki does not mention Manncorp or Autotronic or Quad. Seen many inidie DIY PnP projects come and go. The latest generation of low-…

I've also switched over to OrangePi. Using the OrangePi Zero LTS in a commercial product. It has FCC emissions compliance. That said, The RasPi community is at least 2 or 3 orders …

In the mean-time there are now more lower cost, in-stock alternatives to the RPi than ever such at the OrangePi.

WeMos D1 Mini FTW. So many ESP8266 libraries out there now.

After 30 years running my own MTA I also gave up and moved to fastmail.

Good article. There was a recent kickstarter for something called 'i2c and spi education shield' with some great tutorials and hw also..