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Trying to Get Linux Running on a Nokia E6 ift.tt/ZJ7csh9

Trying To Get Linux Running On A Nokia E6

The Nokia E6 is a smartphone from back in the old days when Symbian was a thing. [fluffleswaffled] has been doing the work to get the ancient handset running Linux instead, because thatā€™s ultā€¦

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Reading QR Codes by Hand ift.tt/UDIaAbW

Reading QR Codes By Hand

QR codes can be a handy way to send a link or contact details without all that tedious mucking about with typing in a link, but they arenā€™t very useful without a smartphone to decode them. [Nā€¦

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Making a Five-Segment Display with Platinum-Titanium Cathodes ift.tt/sbjitzd

Making A Five-Segment Display With Platinum-Titanium Cathodes

Before the advent of effective semiconductor LEDs many display types existed to display things like numbers and other characters. The Nixie tube is a well-known one, along with VFDs and there are aā€¦

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Every Type of Current Sensor Explained ift.tt/Aw0UNsf

Every Type Of Current Sensor Explained

Measuring electric currents is an essential element of many electrical systems, but doing so in a way that is as nonintrusive as possible is not an easy problem to solve. Due to this we got a wide ā€¦

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Sega Genesis Controllers on the Philips CD-i ift.tt/JUgkMuW

Sega Genesis Controllers On The Philips CD-i

The Philips CD-i was not popular upon its launch in 1991, and is barely acknowledged today. In the opinion of [MattKC], it had a particularly poor selection of controllers, too, and itā€™s ofteā€¦

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Knitting Yarn and Filament with FilaLoom ift.tt/okLq1A3

Knitting Yarn And Filament With FilaLoom

We donā€™t generally think of 3D printing and knitting in the same sentence. One uses threads and fine motor control, while the other requires great knowledge of pressing buttons and plastics. That sā€¦

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Building a Simple Internet Radio ift.tt/OcVbNzZ

Building A Simple Internet Radio

Broadcast radio isnā€™t as popular as it once was, its popularity suffering in turn due to technologies like MP3 players and music streaming services. If you donā€™t fancy either of those, ā€¦

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The Age of Altair ift.tt/HdkEXi9

The Age Of Altair

I recently got the Amazon Christmas toy book in the mail, and it is definitely the modern version of the Sears Christmas Wish Book for last centuryā€™s youth. Or at least the majority of last cā€¦

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Clotty The Custom Period Tracker Can, Of Course, Run DOOM ift.tt/Z7O0ITc

Clotty The Custom Period Tracker Can, Of Course, Run DOOM

[kati]ā€™s Clotty might run DOOM and game-ify the menstrual tracking process with a playful Tamagotchi-like aspect, but donā€™t let that distract you. It is, at its heart, a personal menstrā€¦

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A Stereo Vision Board For Hardware Hackers ift.tt/9OJABb2

A Stereo Vision Board For Hardware Hackers

Itā€™s plenty easy to do lots of vision tasks with a single camera, but using two cameras gives you lots of magical abilities, like depth perception! If youā€™d like to experiment with sterā€¦

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5 GHz Drone Video, With An ESP32 ift.tt/0kvEuAj

5 GHz Drone Video, With An ESP32

With the ESP32 series of microcontrollers having had hidden software-defined radio (SDR) facility revealed, weā€™re now moving on from the announcement into projects making use of the finding. ā€¦

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Using Ultrasound and Microbubbles to Make Tiny Devices ift.tt/MAcvkRa

Using Ultrasound And Microbubbles To Make Tiny Devices

Although we generally do not look at bubbles in fluids as more than a curiosity ā€“ if not an outright annoyance ā€“ in certain contexts they can be very useful. If you can namely control tā€¦

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Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler Gain Dynamic Package Support ift.tt/ZRaTWNP

Lazarus And The Free Pascal Compiler Gain Dynamic Package Support

If you have developed in Pascal or Delphi in the past decades, youā€™re probably familiar with the Lazarus IDE that provides an interface to the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC), much like DelphiRā€¦

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Going Whole-Hog on a First Satellite Ground Station ift.tt/QP4gc8L

Going Whole-Hog On A First Satellite Ground Station

When most radio enthusiasts start trying to pick up signals from satellites, they might put together a quick-and-dirty Yagi antenna and try to catch a repeater as is passes overhead, or they might ā€¦

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NASAā€™s Lunar Grounding Challenge is a Real Buzz ift.tt/9jeqM5d

NASAā€™s Lunar Grounding Challenge Is A Real Buzz

One could make a joke about how an astronaut walking on the lunar surface is rather akin to a cat walking on the carpet in the living room, but out in space the resulting triboelectric discharge caā€¦

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Spreading Life to Bleached Coral ift.tt/h2t4Tpw

Spreading Life To Bleached Coral

Coral bleaching is a major problem for ocean ecosystems as the ocean gets warmer. Researchers at Stanford have found a new method for regenerating bleached corals. Scientists working on coral foundā€¦

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Super Mario Galaxy Now Runs on the GBA ift.tt/KCTiJIz

Super Mario Galaxy Now Runs On The GBA

Joining the ranks of fresh backported Nintendo games isĀ Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance (GBA), courtesy of [Tobias Friedly], AKA [Tobi]. In a recent video he announces the releā€¦

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Visualize Regular Expressions with Marbles ift.tt/Qzo3Ldn

Visualize Regular Expressions With Marbles

If you are one of those people who visualize things physically better than in the abstract, then Regex Marble Run by [bottomless] might be for you. You enter a test expression and a string, and theā€¦

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Birduino Plays Bird Calls on Demand with NFC-enabled Cards ift.tt/VnaZ6Id

Birduino Plays Bird Calls On Demand With NFC-enabled Cards

All [Hannah Robertson]ā€™s Birduino needs is for one to tap an NFC-enabled card to the reader, and the device plays one of the vocalizations associated with the bird shown on the card. It ties ā€¦

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Making Photovoltaic Solar Cells with a Microwave ift.tt/LtkgW4I

Making Photovoltaic Solar Cells With A Microwave

Although solar panels may seem like a kind of magic, theyā€™re really quite simple devices, in their silicon form featuring nothing but the p-type silicon wafer and an n-type layer doped with eā€¦

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