from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsConfluence of Nerdery: You might find yourself, dear Hackaday reader, attracted to some pretty strange corners of the tech world. Who knows when that knowledge of stenography, ancient retrocomputing, and floppy disk internals …read more https://t.co/exrgntz2Xh #hadtips https://t.co/JILDsMMtSz
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsBending Light to Fit Technology: Solar power is an excellent way of generating electricity, whether that’s for an off-grid home or for the power grid. With no moving parts maintenance is relatively low, and the …read more https://t.co/aXbVssOChn #hadtips https://t.co/izEZEdXTjr
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsThat’s not a Junker… That’s My Generator: If you live somewhere prone to power outages, you might have thought about buying a generator. The problem is that small generators are cheap but — well — small. Big …read more https://t.co/LLmxQf7FiT #hadtips https://t.co/IRWxdmBY9T
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsHackaday Podcast 237: Dancing Raisins, Coding on Apples, and a Salad Spinner Mouse: This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos gathered over the Internet and a couple cups of coffee to bring you the best hacks of the previous… https://t.co/Thgr0BbRG6 #hadtips https://t.co/qoUIpF2Qz0
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsThis Week in Security: WebP, Cavium, Gitlab, and Asahi Lina: Last week we covered the latest 0-day from NSO group, BLASTPASS. There’s more details about exactly how that works, and a bit of a worrying revelation for Android users. One …read more https://t.co/zab52YLWUG #hadtips https://t.co/373rsVrVKG
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsFaster String Processing With Bloom Filters: At first, string processing might seem very hard to optimize. If you’re looking for a newline in some text, you have to check every character in the string against every …read more https://t.co/4ZFfIybNzS #hadtips https://t.co/pWIR44So2e
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsYou Can Use An Old Tape Deck As A Distortion Pedal: Distorted guitars were a big part of the rock revolution last century; we try to forget about the roll. As a youth, [David Hilowitz] couldn’t afford a loud aggressive amp, …read more https://t.co/3s9OfTRhKC #hadtips https://t.co/eIJP4xgIma
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsBallistic BMW Blocks Both Bullets and Booms: Maybe you like to live dangerously. Like, James Bond dangerously. Well, we won’t judge, but we will pass this along — BMW has created the ultimate driving machine for shootouts …read more https://t.co/SHMaAv5d0D #hadtips https://t.co/IUuj5Urt0j
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsBooks You Should Read: David Macaulay’s Architecture Series: For a lot of us, there’s a bright line separating the books we enjoyed as children from the “real” books of our more mature years. We all eventually age out …read more https://t.co/lXjh8hX5nC #hadtips https://t.co/tyvzj7BD2W
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsAluminum Battery is Sustainable: If you think of metals in a battery, you probably think of lithium, mercury, lead, nickel, and cadmium. But researchers in Australia and China want you to think about aluminum. …read more https://t.co/2BCCYZTclH #hadtips https://t.co/l2z7exZYwn
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