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what's exciting about this is that it's got an FPGA with micro-HDMI and usb-c so you should be able to use it as an e-paper monitor out of the box

downloaded this, enjoying it so far. thanks!

"inexpensive". I love that. Like we're all searching for rubik's cube solver robots for our loved ones for christmas but they're all just too damn pricey!

I tried to use this and it showed me an apache2 landing page instead of my app website, which led me to realise my app site had been down for at least a day because apache had actu…

please stop submitting dailymail links. dailymail is fear-mongering hate-speech dressed up as journalism.

One practical way you could attempt to do this would be to massively tax airline tickets, ideally by distance flown, and then allow people to claim 4 untaxed tickets. You could als…

> real paper made from trees is still considered crucial to countless businesses and government systems globally, despite the environmental impact of producing it. For decades, com…

> ARM wrestles nice pun

I want to learn more about the natural sciences, and I'm looking for a great book that'll give me the basics and keep me interested. I have a terrible attention span for reading so…

yep you're right, I was wrong, it only goes back to late 90s

Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions But for whatever reas…

Growing up, myself and my siblings built sets when we first got them as gifts, but after that they went in the pile. We would build whatever was in our imagination, from the multic…

I absolutely love Achill, it's stunning out there. I would love to live out there, if I knew I had reliable internet so I could work. However, the €80k the government grant for doi…

> for the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee So like $400

Very nice! I'm also this guy > I'm a writer who sometimes misses the fancy features of a code editor, so I started building I haven't added any external services to mine yet. Inter…

Is this any relation to pico8, the fantasy console? If not, can the picosystem run pico8?

We used to bake potatoes in piles of grass from when my dad mowed the lawn. wrap your potato in tinfoil twice and bury it at the bottom of a large grass pile in the morning and com…

Ann Reardon is great, she debunks so much stuff. I didn't even realise how many fake cooking videos there were out there until I started watching her channel

I had to click through to find what the worst part of England was, and ended up on an FT article about Blackpool and the causes of and reasons behind its decline. Very sad but very…

omg I remember todo.txt! I've kept that mantra alive with my own todo apps (private use only, I'm not selling myself here). I always build stuff that follows the same philosophy of…

ditto. I was turned off LifeHacker a long time back by the ads and slideshows and junk content. delighted to start rediscovering it.

This post reads awfully whiny to me. Who cares if the new bulb that's 90% more energy efficient than your old incandescent is not exactly the same color as the totally unnatural el…

As in, turn an inkplate10 into a secondary (or even primary) display for something like a raspberry pi. I want to make an eink writing machine, something like a freewrite but not c…