It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of ...

Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl ...

When driving around in video games, whether racing games like Mario Kart or open-world games like GTA, the game often ...

The best part about BEV and hybrid cars is probably the bit where their electronics are taken out for a good teardown and ...

Many of us have marveled at art installations that feature marbles quietly and ceaselessly tracing out beautiful patterns in sand. [DIY Machines] is here to show us that it’s entirely possible to ...

Fermentation is a culinary art where tiny organisms transform simple ingredients into complex flavors — but they’re finicky about temperature. To keep his brewing setup at the perfect conditions, [Ken ...

Once you fall deep enough into the rabbit hole of any project, specific information starts getting harder and harder to find. At some point, trusting experts becomes necessary, even if that ...

Linear actuators are a great help when you’re moving something along a single axis, but with so many options, how do you decide? [Jeremy Fielding] walks us through some of the high level tradeoffs of ...

One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches to ...

When it comes to getting retro hardware running again, there are many approaches. On one hand, the easiest path could be to emulate the hardware on something modern, using nothing but software to ...

If you live in a major city, you’ve probably seen a street performer with some variety of slapophone. It’s a simple musical instrument that typically uses different lengths of PVC pipe ...

Michael Lynch] recently decided to delve into the world of off-grid, decentralized communications with MeshCore, because ...