A digital xylophone with Micro:bit and neopixels! What a cool project! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16bfPuo8Jy
I wouldn’t think that the most comprehensive discussion of how money works would be from Phrack magazine, which is usually more focused on computer technology. Anyway, life is full of surprises! https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
I’m going to have to test this out later since it looks like what I’ve been trying to do with other LLMs with mixed results. https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
In the paper “Ironies of Automation” by Lisanne Bainbridge, she discusses how automation can make operators’ jobs harder rather than easier. This is particularly interesting in light of Large Language Models seemingly taking over lots of things that we used to rely on humans to do. https://web.archive.org/web/20200717054958if_/https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf
A long time ago I built a quilt that had switches in each block, and this is very similar, though it looks like it uses capacitive touch rather than pressure, which mine used. Either way, cool stuff! https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/12/29/touch-sensor-quilt-block-the-raspberry-pi-official-magazine-issue-161-rpimagazine
This is just a fun use of a connect four game board as a musical instrument. It falls squarely in line with the original ideas that inspired Engineering Harmony.
This is a really interesting article that talks about how two people can experience two sides of the same relationship and be experiencing it in opposite ways, which can be seen in brain scans. https://open.substack.com/pub/verahartmdphd/p/the-asymmetry-of-pain-why-the-narcissist?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=19bxf3
One of the coolest things about many electronic components is that they are reversible. For example, if you send electric power to a motor it will spin. If you instead turn the spindle, it will create electricity. The same concept is true for LEDs. If you send power through them, they light up. If you…
I just saw this cool music looping site that lets you create sounds from scratch and I wanted to post it here so I’ll be able to find it later. https://loopmaster.xyz
Cory Doctorow speaks about process knowledge (PK) and how it is the basis of much of the functioning of our society. What’s interesting and new to me is the valuation of PK relative to intellectual property (IP). https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance