More #science next with an iron-on material which makes integrated soft circuits into clothing and other fabrics as easy as ironing on a patch.

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#Technology #Wearables #News #Hackster

Researchers Make Wearable Electronics as Simple as Ironing on a Patch

New material bonds strongly with a wide range of common clothing fabrics to quickly functionalize them.

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When the #RaspberryPi Compute Module 5 came out, you couldn't use the IO Case's bundled fan and heatsink at the same time - which was spun as letting people try out passive and active cooling separately.

Well, that definitely-not-a-design-flaw-honest has been fixed: the latest IO Case shifts the fan to allow clearance underneath for the heatsink.

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#Technology #SingleBoardComputer #News #Hackster

Raspberry Pi Revises the Compute Module 5 IO Board, IO Case Designs for Better Cooling

Fresh new Rev. 2 models address a flaw in the original designs, and finally let you mount both the heatsink and fan at the same time.

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Speaking of the #RaspberryPi CM5, there's a new carrier board coming out - an open-hardware design which adapts it into a mini-ITX form factor complete with x16 (mechanical, it's still one-lane) PCI Express slot.

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#Technology #SingleBoardComputer #News #Hackster

Sanctuary Systems' Sentinel Core Turns a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Into a "Better Computer"

Open-hardware carrier converts the computer-on-module in to a mini-ITX board, complete with full-size PCI Express slot.

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Back to #science again next with the "Speech-to-Reality" system, a chain of machine learning models - including, yes, #LLMs - which attempt to turn spoken instructions into physical objects built from standardised parts.

A Replicator. They've built a #StarTrek Replicator. Kind of.

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This "Speech-to-Reality" System Is the Closest You Can Get to a Working Star Trek Replicator

Chained artificial intelligence models turn spoken requests into physical objects in minutes.

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Exciting news for Sinclair ZX81 owners with the launch of the OpenSpand, an open-hardware expansion cartridge which adds loads of memory, high-res graphics, SD Card storage, AY-chip and sampled audio, a joystick port, and even a fixed composite video output compatible with modern displays.

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#VintageComputing #OpenHardware #Technology #RetroComputing #News #Hackster

OpenSpand Is a Feature-Packed Expansion Board for Your Sinclair ZX81, Timex Sinclair 1000, or Clone

Sound support, joystick compatibility, high-res graphics, and up to 56kB of RAM — where was this in the 1980s?

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More #LLM news, but even I can't get mad at the idea they could help with accessibility (although there's the slight problem that you can't trust their output, which kinda pours cold water on this whole project): A11yShape, which uses an LLM to allow blind and visually-impaired developers to iterate on #OpenSCAD 3D models.

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#Technology #Accessibility #ArtificialIntelligence #News #Hackster

A11yShape Brings LLMs to Bear on Assisting Blind, Visually-Impaired Developers with 3D Modeling

OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model sits at the heart of this system for describing OpenSCAD models for iterative development.

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And finally, assuming the one waiting in the wings doesn't appear sharpish-like, more work on the rePalm project from Dmitry Grinberg as he ports Palm OS 5 to the Fisher-Price Pixter family of turn-of-the-century kids' toys.

I miss my Palm T|X. Lovely thing, that was.

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#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #PDA #Technology #News #Hackster

Dmitry Grinberg Brings Palm OS 5 to the Fisher-Price Pixter Family

Pixter Color and Pixter Multimedia can now work as your personal digital assistants… after a fashion.

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As always, you'll also find all of that on the #GeminiProtocol via your favourite browser or proxy.

(I like Lagrange, personally!)

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Oh, there's the one I was waiting for: a work-in-progress project to build a robot capable of tidying a 17-foot-wide workbench, because that's easier than just... tidying it(!)

(Honestly, I'd do the same if I could.)

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#Technology #Robotics #News #Hackster

JBV's 17-Foot-Wide Robot Handles Desktop Clutter So Its Creator Doesn't Have To

"It turns out that my desire to avoid cleaning far outweighs my sense of self-preservation," its creator admits.

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