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A developer details building a custom e-paper display with ESP32 and Claude Code to monitor weather, news, and other information for personal use.
This article describes a creative project where a rotary phone is connected to an AI agent to allow a young child to ask questions, with answers displayed on an e-ink device, inspired by other tech projects and incorporating Socratic thinking for education.
A personal account of building a backyard office for remote work, detailing cost breakdowns and comparisons between Autonomous.ai Pods and Tuff Shed conversions.
A developer uses Claude and other AI models to build a custom watch face for the PineTime smart watch, leveraging open-source firmware and simulators for an AI-assisted hacking project.
The article describes the construction of a portable, sensitive, and low-power analog Geiger counter, designed for measuring low radiation levels using a large Geiger-Müller tube.
The article describes a DIY project where the author built a Moire pattern-based device to guide ships, inspired by a patent and video, and discusses its practicality compared to simpler navigation systems.
The author built feedpaper, a macOS tool that converts RSS feeds into an e-pub 'newspaper' for a pocket e-ink reader, helping them read blogs away from their phone.
The author built a Rust-powered light-up graduation cap using an ATtiny85 microcontroller and WS2812B LEDs to detect tassel movement. The project highlights the use of embedded Rust libraries like avr-hal for custom hardware projects.
A developer documents building an open-source Hinglish text-to-speech system that outperforms existing models by fixing upstream inference bugs and adding a lightweight preprocessing wrapper, achieving high quality without training or GPU resources.
The author details using AI coding assistants to build a custom smart-home tool that correlates audio recordings, sensor data, and sleep metrics to identify nighttime disturbances. The DIY project integrates a Raspberry Pi, microphones, Home Assistant, and a Garmin watch into a personalized web dashboard.