This week, we finally got the last parts required to convert our Desk to standing – yay!
We also got some cool swag from LINAK, including a desk-mount USB PD power hub, which we discovered could do 20V output, which means it can power our ember mug using a 20V USB to DC adapter cable. That plus some under-desk cable management and we’ve cleaned up the Desk quite a bit.
We covered the Lepton infrared cameras on EYE ON NPI, which made us think about designing an EYESPI-compatible breakout with which the sensors can be used.
We also chatted with some Adafruit’ers about designing an RP2350B-based CircuitPython/Re-mapping Gameboy Cartridge.
Finally, JP asked us to design a DMX FeatherWing much like the MIDI FeatherWing.
salimbenbouz shared this neat project on instructables, thingiverse, and Github! If you’re into 3D printing and Pi projects, they’ve combined the right amount of nostalgia in this miniature PC.
Inspired by the retro machines I grew up with during the 90s and early 00s, I decided to design and build a working tiny miniature PC to bring a little of that nostalgia to my desk. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the entire process of building one, sharing detailed steps and tips to help you recreate this project.
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What do you think of when you think of a hacker? Today hackers have taken on international status as government-funded agents who can change the course of history. We might imagine a shadowy government funded team in some droll office performing the 21st Century version of foreign interventions. That wasn’t always the case.
Forty years ago, hackers were thought of a nerdy solo acts. You might think about a particularly geeky Matthew Broderick accidentally pushing the world toward global thermonuclear war while trying to impress Ally Sheedy in WarGames. Hackers for quite some time were seen as basement dwelling, Doritos munching outsiders ready to break the law through nerdy means just to get a little status.
In 1995 that all changed. The movie Hackers dramatized in a very Hollywood sort of way what had already happened: rave culture, electronic and synth-based music, the early wild-west internet, conspiracy theories (back when they were fun), Blade Runner aesthetics, and a very cyberpunk view on politics, had converged into a bleeding-edge cool. This vibe transformed the zeitgeist so much that by the turn of the century everybody was fluent in the visual language that first surfaces in the mainstream with Hackers.
Here at Adafruit, we love Hackers. One of the most fun Raspberry Pi projects we’ve seen comes from the ever-reliable HackersCurator. A re-creation of Nikon’s laptop, powered by Raspberry Pi. Here’s more:
We recreated a fully functioning reproduction of Lord Nikon’s laptop from the iconic cult classic film Hackers from 1995. Here is how we did it, and you can too! In Hackers, Lord Nikon A.K.A. Paul Cook, played by Laurence Mason sports an iconic laptop and startup sequence from the film. We wanted one that actually works. We captured the entire process on Twitch and have compiled the build into this video.
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