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I think smaller ones might be useful for network quality testing and mapping. I think carriers drive around with boxes in vehicles to test their own networks reliability and map th…

Octoprint is still a great piece of software that works with most printers, but it's running into a dead end where streaming G Code over the USB Serial emulation isn't fast enough …

They have hired staff in San Antonio but not officially announced a launch yet.

Weirdly I had the exact opposite experience. Elgato always felt laggy. I bought a no-name USB Stick format card and it looked great (once I got my camera settings dialed in) but wo…

I can say that in San Antonio where I live and also operate a ADSB receiver the dedicated air force flight trainers (T38 Talons and T6 Texans) routinely fly with ADSB on. The C5 ca…

Sadly Bluetooth support on Node is a mess and has been so forever. Noble is the only BLE library, and the original creator abandoned it years ago. The community forked it and has b…

That's all well and good for software developed in house by a full time development team that gets deployed to a single known environment, but that's only one way that the JDK gets…

This has been my hell trying to navigate for the past year. As a general rule, anyone who can't commit to updating and testing their software to run on the latest JDK ever 6 months…

We did leave a mirror on the moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

For all intents and purposes that hash becomes the users password at that point. Also you can't really salt that hash in a meaningful way.

I probably should try it. I've been writing my own partly as an excuse to learn React. I've already got a Pi with a touchscreen and a 3d printed enclosure setup to run whatever sol…

Another pain point with making is that it's really hard to get it integrated with stuff you have bought. I built my own garage door automation with a Particle Photon board. It work…

Well, I'm glad it's not just me. I had my top case replaced a month ago after my 'w' key started sticking down off and on. I could swear I felt one of the keys on my new case stick…

I did an independent study back in college to make maps like these. At the time there was a CD-ROM floating around with a database containing all of this data. It must have been an…

The US moved to electronic voting in part due to the Florida vote counting fiascos in 2000. Electronic voting machines prevent users from making undervotes and overvotes (picking n…

I agree. I think that the pricing is fair for when you have paying customers on the system (at least for my business model), but the 7 day trial isn't really enough time to do a pr…

Telnet is a great way to realize that HTTP is just some simple text commands and not some mysterious binary protocol. WireShark also provides a good visualization of the HTTPS nego…

Can you really protect the device software if the hardware encryption element is separate from the microcontroller? Wouldn't it be trivial to sniff the decrypted cypher text of the…

Some larger aircraft actually have that for routes that require crew changes. http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-airplane-bedrooms-2015...

This is really cool. My wife has been experimenting with using Google Cardboard in her classroom to do virtual field trips, and none of the resources she can find let you add in yo…

From a practical standpoint, isn't this likely to trip Facebook and Twitter's protections against account theft? If you suddenly log in on a new machine in another country, and tha…

I have no clue if anyone really uses it, and it has a terribly un-googleable name, but the Java Spark Framework is the most beautifully simplistic REST API I have ever played with.…

Putting the words "ASP" and "Classic" that close together sent a chill down my spine. You're totally right about the tooling though. If I can't do File->New Project and get it to c…

If you have either a MSDN subscription or sign your startup up for BizSpark, you can activate an Azure account without a credit card and use the credits they give you. I've got fri…