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Booked! :D

🎉 #Teardown2026 will be happening 24-26th July.

We're in a cool new space: the Jupiter on Burnside. Our 60s mall era is dead, long live our 60s motel era.

Tickets, calls for participation + volunteers, and general info on the @crowdsupply.bsky.social site: www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...

Hey, any of y'all #PCB nerds have a favorite type of UV-cure solder mask? 👀

Just got my old Bantam mill back, and I'd like to level up my quick-prototyping game...

// #PCBs

Do you have a J-Link compact and wonder why it only works with _some_ USB-C cables? I looked into why that is 🤬

alvarop.com/2025/09/j-li...

The Science Behind Vocal Distortion: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice

Have you watched the video on how he makes all the sounds?

Needles in throat, DMRI, and more!

youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...

Apparently 🤷

Once I switched to micropython (from C) because I was out of ideas. I immediately got an "Invalid MISO pin" error, which made me take an nth look at the pinout and I finally saw it

Spent waaaaay too long trying to figure out why my board's SPI bus on GP6-GP9 wasn't working 🤦‍♂️

075 - Teleporting All Over The Timeline An Interview with Nathan Emerick

New episode is up!
We talked with Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and it's journey to becoming the @deskthing.app :D
unnamedre.com/episode/75

🤯 I look forward to anything you end up writing about this!

It matters. I care. It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. “Who cares? It d...

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying - Django Wexler Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord hers...

Have you tried How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying?

djangowexler.com/writing/how-...

It’s no DCC, but I did enjoy it

Do folks have a favorite UV cured adhesive for PCB rework? For holding wires in place, etc…

Attacking Classified Safes and Vaults from the Cold War to Now [CackalackyCon 2025] YouTube video by DeviantOllam

My gargantuan presentation about Cold War attacks and intrusions into our intelligence apparatus has now been published. If you didn't catch it at #ShmooCon or #CackalackyCon now you can view it here...

youtu.be/-Z_Jv7vuiqg

Enjoy! 👍😁👍

The amazing ppl behind @crowdsupply.bsky.social ‘s Teardown are hosting us in Portland, OR this year! Join us on Thursday for Hardware Hacking with @synapticrewrite.bsky.social and @barbieauglend.bsky.social - register here: blackhoodie.re/TearDown2025/

That’s great! I really enjoyed the first one :D

🙋‍♂️

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia Wikipedia is facing another threat.

Looking forward to the full-throated condemnation of this letter by those who accused the Biden administration of pressuring social media firms to moderate COVID-19 and election fraud misinfo! Any second now...

www.theverge.com/news/656720/...

An open letter to U.S. customers To our US customers: A few days ago, the Trump Administration announced that they will be ending the de minimis exemption for all shipments from Hong Kong and China on May 2. They also raised the mini...

shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/a...

This is an expanded and updated version of the message we sent to our mailing list late last week.

Aha! I’d been trying to figure out who recommended the Dungeon Crawler Carl series!
Thank you for that :D
The audiobooks are a ton of fun.

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I assume this also includes the pre programmed bootloader ICs?

Working on something today. I've been doing a lot of recapping recently and was getting tired of Googling pdfs. mightyohm.com/wiki/referen...

BlackMagic Probe connected to a target over SWD using an SWD2USBC adapter.

Have you ever wanted to debug your device over USB-C?
(I’m talking JTAG/SWD, not just USB!) If you already have a USB-C connector, there’s no need to have an additional connector to program!
Started as a twitter thread ages ago, but I've cleaned it up and added more info!
alvarop.com/2025/03/swd-...

I’ve just been using Ubuntu on my raspberry pi’s since it’s what I’m most familiar with :/

It works really well for what it’s worth

I haven’t tried lockdown mode yet.
Can you forward/airdrop the attachment to a non-lockdowned device?

Debra Ansell( @geekmomprojects.com ) joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights.

Take a listen here: embedded.fm/episodes/494

#makergiftexchange #friends #maker #LED #lights

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:

Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

Nice! I mostly ever see single frequency demodulators. Might have to get a couple of these for work :D

Congrats on the move! Looking forward to what you create at Opulo!

Teardown is amazing annual June event in Portland for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware. The call for proposals closes on Wednesday, January 15th:
www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...
#portland #portlandpdx #pdx #openhardware