Brilliant Labs have been making near-eye display platforms for some time now, and they are one of the few manufacturers making a point of focusing on an open and hacker-friendly approach to their ...

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Three-axis 3D printing has been with us long enough that everybody knows the limitations, but so far, adding extra axes has been very much a niche endeavor. [Daniel] at Fractal Robotics wants to ...

The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the ...

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It should come as no surprise that the hacker community has embraced the Meshtastic project. It’s got a little bit of ...