Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!)…

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A virtual monitor for screen sharing. Contribute to Stengo/DeskPad development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Electroboom 101:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr_CZLgMkHeWFl1uf5yR2ouhIh00ycHn9&si=0pSZl8kXe0wV9uGk


Narrated, edited and fact-checked by Zack

Credits:
@xoticclipsyt (TSW footage), The Engineering mindset (Animations), Arduino website (PWM Diagram)…

I tweeted this incredibly non-controversial take and it got a huge reaction, so I thought I'd recycle the content for a blog post. Enjoy. We...