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5 Best Pocket Notebooks (and how to make your own that beats them all)

5 Best Pocket Notebooks (and how to make your own that beats them all)

Here at Autodidacts.io live three avid list-writers and note-takers. When you spend 90% of your waking hours in the company of an object, it's nice if you like it. I& … »

Meet WobbleCam, the DIY Glidecam

Meet WobbleCam, the DIY Glidecam

Glidecams are agitatingly expensive but equally sweet. They’re the mechanical heroes of independent film, giving amateurs access to the gorgeous motion shots of pro cinema. Despite their cost, they look like they& … »

Smart Rat Trap Project in Make Magazine

Smart Rat Trap Project in Make Magazine

Issue 43 of Make Magazine features a build tutorial of our Smart Rat Trap project. It was great working with Keith Hammond and the team at Make getting the project in print! You … »

#100DaysToOffload

  1. I’m trying #100DaysToOffload
  2. Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price
  3. Filtering RSS feeds by tag
  4. An unsolved question in sleep science
  5. A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit
  6. Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support
  7. Sleep is a continuum
  8. Wallabag wins, despite its flaws
  9. Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing
  10. Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way
  11. Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API

PS/2/You: Go-anywhere digital message board

PS/2/You: Go-anywhere digital message board

It all started with a small LCD salvaged from an old printer. I recruited Adam for some coding and we soon had the LCD displaying text from an Arduino microcontroller. This was neat, … »