Pulling at Threads With the Flipper Zero: Gone are the days when all smart devices were required an internet uplink. The WiFi-enabled IoT fad, while still upon us (no, my coffee scale doesn’t need to be on the network, dammit!) has begun to give way to… ift.tt/c8HLPf1

USB-C Rainbow Ranger: Sensing Volts with Style: USB-C has enabled a lot of great things, most notably removing the no less than three attempts to plug in the cable correctly, but gone are the days of just 5V over those lines. [Meticulous Technologies] … ift.tt/O6S790m

Wendelstein 7-X Sets New Record for the Nuclear Fusion Triple Product: Fusion product against duration, showing the Lawson criterion progress. (Credit: Dinklage et al., 2024, MPI for Plasma Physics) In nuclear fusion, the triple product – also known a… ift.tt/jTPZQWy

NanoCOM-MTU – A COM Express Type 10 module with 28W Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPU: AAEON NanoCOM-MTU is a COM Express Type 10 CPU Module powered by 28W Intel Core Ultra 5/7 “Meteor Lake” processors with up to 16 cores and 22 threads on a compact 84m… ift.tt/SIKe07G

FPGA-based Commodore 64 Ultimate keyboard PC is compatible with original C64 games: The last original Commodore 64 keyboard computer was sold in 1994, and since then, the Commodore brand and assets have been owned by various companies over the years, u… ift.tt/kmfpDGR

A History of the Tandy Computers: Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But Tandy, the company behind Radio Shack for many years. Did you ever wonder how a leather company started in 1919, becaus… ift.tt/f5jv7J4

Arduino Saves Heat Pump: For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they don’t directly burn fossil fuels. They also have a leg up over stand… ift.tt/nwBDszK

ASRock Industrial unveils DSC-NV003-WT NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit: ASRock Industrial DSC-NV003-WT is an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit designed for edge AI, robotics, drones, Smart Cities, and advanced industrial applications with a wid… ift.tt/2EY47fk

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Canonical and ESWIN announces EBC77 RISC-V SBC with Ubuntu 24.04 support: ESWIN Computing, in collaboration with Canonical, has announced the EBC77 Series single board computer (SBC) with support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and designed for education, embedde… ift.tt/J2SwYbT

Caltech Scientists Make Producing Plastics From CO2 More Efficient: For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although th… ift.tt/68fWtvA

The DEW Line Remembered: The DEW line was one of three radar early warning systems of the time. If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and-cover drills. The United … ift.tt/iR5QjOw

The open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture is rapidly expanding its global footprint, with China emerging as a significant force in its development and adoption. The upcoming RISC-V Summit China 2025 in Shanghai underscores the nation’s burgeo… ift.tt/b7VgyOu

Blu-ray Won, But At What Cost?: Over on their substack [ObsoleteSony] has a new article: The Last Disc: How Blu-ray Won the War but Lost the Future. In this article the author takes us through the history of Blu-ray media and how under Sony’s stewards… ift.tt/tdTZCA5

Mach Cutoff: Bending The Sonic Boom: Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a conventional modern airli… ift.tt/gbFu7eB

FLOSS Weekly Episode 841: Drupal and AI: The Right Tool for Everything: This week Jonathan and Katherine talk with Jamie Abrahams about Drupal, and how AI just makes sense. No, really. Jamie makes a compelling case that Drupal is a really good tool for… ift.tt/q4ZXy9W

Mini Car Racing Game Really Shows Off Multicolor Printing: Quality 3D printing is a common hobbyist tool nowadays, and [wontonnn]’s mini arcade car racing game really shows off how 3D printing can bring parts from functional to fantastic. There are qui… ift.tt/OTdgHJk

Opening a Six-Lock Safe With One Key Using Brunnian Links: Brunnian links are a type of nontrivial link – or knot – where multiple linked loops become unlinked if a single loop is cut or removed. Beyond ‘fun’ disentanglement toys and a tantalizing subj… ift.tt/cAgTovV

T-Display S3 Pro LR1121 Adds Dual-Band LoRa via Expansion Shield: LILYGO has released the T-Display S3 Pro LR1121, a modular variant designed to expand the capabilities of the standard T-Display S3 Pro. Instead of integrating a camera module like another… ift.tt/IKBgyrJ

This SSD Will Self Destruct in Ten Seconds…: In case you can’t wait for your flash memory to die from write cycling, TeamGroup now has a drive that, via software or hardware, can destroy its own flash chips with a surge of voltage. If you wonder why y… ift.tt/7SNu3mz