How To Build A Fully Offline Smart Home, Or Why You Should Not
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/09/how-to-build-a-fully-offline-smart-home-or-why-you-should-not/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/09/how-to-build-a-fully-offline-smart-home-or-why-you-should-not/
So-called ‘smart home’ appliances and gadgets have become an ever-more present thing the past years, with nary a coffeemaker, AC unit or light bulb for sale today that doesn’t have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/09/how-to-build-a-fully-offline-smart-home-or-why-you-should-not/)
Adding AI to NPCs is Easy, Doing it Well is Hard
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/adding-ai-to-npcs-is-easy-doing-it-well-is-hard/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/adding-ai-to-npcs-is-easy-doing-it-well-is-hard/
Adding natural language interfaces to software is easier than ever, and that led [creikey] to prototype a game that hinges on communicating with NPCs. The prototype went through multiple iterations …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/adding-ai-to-npcs-is-easy-doing-it-well-is-hard/)
Not Dead Yet: Microsoft Peripherals Get Licensed To Onward Brands
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/not-dead-yet-microsoft-peripherals-get-licensed-to-onward-brands/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/not-dead-yet-microsoft-peripherals-get-licensed-to-onward-brands/
After Microsoft announced in April of 2023 that they’d cease selling branded peripherals – including keyboards and mice – as part of its refocusing on Surface computers and accessories, there …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/not-dead-yet-microsoft-peripherals-get-licensed-to-onward-brands/)
Open Source Needs a New Mission: Protecting Users
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/open-source-needs-a-new-mission-protecting-users/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/open-source-needs-a-new-mission-protecting-users/
[Bruce Perens] isn’t very happy with the current state of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and an article by [Rupert Goodwins] expounds on this to explain Open Source’s need …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/open-source-needs-a-new-mission-protecting-users/)
Brand-New PCB Makes Replica TRS-80 Possible
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/brand-new-pcb-makes-replica-trs-80-possible/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/brand-new-pcb-makes-replica-trs-80-possible/
If like us, you missed out on the TRS-80 Model I back when it first came out, relax .With this brand-new PCB that’s a trace-for-trace replica of the original and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/brand-new-pcb-makes-replica-trs-80-possible/)
USB-C Power Supply Pushes Almost 2 kW
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/usb-c-power-supply-pushes-almost-2-kw/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/usb-c-power-supply-pushes-almost-2-kw/
When the USB standard was first revealed, a few peripherals here and there adopted it but it was far from the “universal” standard implied by its name. It was slow, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/10/usb-c-power-supply-pushes-almost-2-kw/)