John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement

Starship ASMR Simulator github.com/mbparks/Star...

Arcdroid Mount for Xphotonics Xlaserlab X1 Pro

Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard Although Bartlett Lake-S uses the same socket as 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, the chips are incompatible with mainstream 600 and 700 series motherboards officially on a firmware level.

Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 Motherboard

The Skeptic’s Pivot Why I Stopped Developing and Started “Vibe Coding”

The Skeptic’s Pivot

The AI bubble will finally burst sometime between November 2026 and June 2027.

The Forgotten One by MB Parks

The Forgotten One by MB Parks mbparks.com/loss/

mike (@mbparks@pixelfed.social) https://github.com/mbparks/TheForgottenOne

The Forgotten One: A Text-based Adventure about Memory, Loss, and Truth. github.com/mbparks/TheF...

AI Brain Fry Is Real: How To Stop AI Making You Less Smart AI brain fry is real and quietly eroding the sharpness of the founders using these tools hardest. Here's how to stay smart while staying ahead.

AI Brain Fry Is Real: How To Stop AI Making You Less Smart

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams In China, there's a growing market for renting smart glasses to help you cheat on your tests.

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Some LEGO Smart Brick – BLE Reverse Engineering

Apple’s Most Repairable Laptop Is Thanks To Right-to-Repair The common narrative around device design is that you can have repairability or a low price, but that they are inversely proportional to each other. Apple’s new budget MacBook Neo seems to at…

Apple’s Most Repairable Laptop Is Thanks To Right-to-Repair

We just announced SEVEN new products, ready to expand your Arduino® UNO™ Q board | Arduino Blog Arduino Days is a great moment to celebrate our community – and what better way to party than with a new product… or seven! During the first day of the event, our team took turns to introduce a…

We just announced SEVEN new products, ready to expand your Arduino® UNO™ Q board

Coding for Automation: Programming a PLC The history of programmable logic controllers is a blend of the Industrial and Information Revolutions, transforming manufacturing from manual reconfiguration to automation.

Coding for Automation: Programming a PLC (by yours truly)

People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms The psychologist behind a new study confirming the link between dumb jargon and dumb decisions explains how to fight corporate BS.

People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms

Design Principles 2.0 Thinking About Thinking About Work, Again

Design Principles 2.0

Is Math Art? Werner Herzog Says Yes | Artnet News Werner Herzog kicked off Brooklyn Public Library's Pi Day celebrations with a keynote titled “Mathematics and the Sublime.”

Is Math Art? Werner Herzog Says Yes

Forgetfulino Puts Back Up Of Source Inside The Binary How often have you pulled out old MCU-based project that still works fine, but you have no idea where the original source code has gone? Having the binary image and the source code as separate thin…

Forgetfulino Puts Back Up Of Source Inside The Binary

GNU Radio Gets A Makeover With PimpMyGRC [idealdealy] had a problem. GNU Radio Companion was proving to be a powerful tool, but it just didn’t look… cool enough. The solution? A custom bit of software called PimpMyGRC, designe…

GNU Radio Gets A Makeover With PimpMyGRC hackaday.com/2026/03/14/g...

Happy Pi Day!

Apple MacBook Neo is not only cheaper than other Macs, it's also easier to repair Good news, everyone.

Tired of overpriced laptops shoving Microsoft Co-Pilot down your throat? Apple MacBook Neo is not only cheaper than other Macs, it's also easier to repair.

Hands On With Creality’s New M1 Filament Maker Ever since 3D printing has become a popular tool, the question of waste has been looming in the background. The sad reality of rapid prototyping is that you’re going to generate a lot of prin…

Hands On With Creality’s New M1 Filament Maker

Your Arduino Nano Matter board is now a professional Zephyr development platform | Arduino Blog The Arduino® Nano™ Matter board just gained a second life. It now has an official upstream Zephyr RTOS board definition – making it a first-class professional embedded development platform alongside…

Your Arduino Nano Matter board is now a professional Zephyr development platform

E-tattoo research makes its mark on the wearable tech scene Peel and stick tattoos have been a childish fad for decades. Any shape, color and...

E-tattoo research makes its mark on the wearable tech scene

Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ Once in a while I encounter a question whether C++ is suitable for embedded development and bare metal development in particular. There are multiple articles of how C++ is superior to C, that…

Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++

Beyond the Shortcut: How Generative AI is Reshaping Engineering Education At the Maker Faire Bay Area last September, a crucial conversation took place, the Role of Generative AI in Engineering Education; Microchip's Senior Engineer, Ross Satchell dove into the…

Beyond the Shortcut: How Generative AI is Reshaping Engineering Education

Introducing Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q: your new AI, robotics, and actuation platform! | Arduino Blog We’ve been dropping hints about a new, revolutionary product we’ve been working on, and now we can finally tell you all about it! Ahead of Embedded World our team has announced the upcoming VENTUNO…

Introducing Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q: your new AI, robotics, and actuation platform!

Train and deploy your own AI models in Arduino® App Lab – now fully integrated with Edge Impulse! | Arduino Blog We’re excited to introduce a powerful new capability in Arduino App Lab: native integration with Edge Impulse for training and deploying your own custom AI models. This update makes it easier than…

Train and deploy your own AI models in Arduino® App Lab – now fully integrated with Edge Impulse!

Radical accessibility on the Arduino® UNO™ Q board with OpenClaw | Arduino Blog It’s hard to escape the AI hype these days, but one tool that’s been in the spotlight more than any other recently is the open-source assistant OpenClaw. Billed as a handy tool that can be installed…

Radical accessibility on the Arduino® UNO™ Q board with OpenClaw

Exploring Security Vulnerabilities In A Cheapo WiFi Extender If all you want is just a basic WiFi extender that gets some level of network connectivity to remote parts of your domicile, then it might be tempting to get some of those $5, 300 Mbit extenders of…

Exploring Security Vulnerabilities In A Cheapo WiFi Extender