TechSpot: YouTuber built a car powered by 500 discarded vapes, and drove it 18 miles. “A small car parked in a rainy British driveway might seem an unlikely place for a battery revolution. Yet that’s where engineer and YouTuber Chris Doel has built the world’s first vape-powered vehicle – a working proof of concept that challenges both the limits of lithium-ion recycling and society’s growing […]
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Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/gizmodo-a-dish-of-neurons-playing-doom-is-the-wildest-thing-ive-seen-in-ages/TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/28/techspot-someone-built-an-x86-cpu-emulator-using-pure-css-for-science/Tom’s Hardware: Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms. “Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/27/toms-hardware-ambitious-developer-showcases-slick-triple-level-quake-like-game-stored-in-tiny-64kb-executable-every-game-asset-tucked-inside-what-could-be-a-rounding-error/Hackaday: Taking Photos With Scotch Tape Instead Of A Lens. “If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special ‘lensless imaging’ techniques.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/20/hackaday-taking-photos-with-scotch-tape-instead-of-a-lens/TechSpot: Doom has officially been ported to earbuds, streaming at 18 fps. “Australia-based developer Arin Sarkisian recently unveiled DoomBuds, a project designed to run Doom on a pair of earbuds. Even more impressively – or alarmingly, if you’re not a fan of extreme tech demos – he connected the earbuds to the internet, allowing players to join and play the game remotely.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/techspot-doom-has-officially-been-ported-to-earbuds-streaming-at-18-fps/Tom’s Hardware: Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh. “A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware. Documented in a teardown and reverse-engineering video, the YouTuber shows the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/14/toms-hardware-doom-conquers-the-kitchen-through-an-electric-cooking-pot-classic-shooter-runs-seamlessly-after-a-full-device-firmware-refresh/The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/13/the-register-danish-dev-delights-kid-by-turning-floppy-drive-into-easy-tv-remote/Hackaday: Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic. “The ‘Marauder’s Map’ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and we can make our own magic now. Or, rather, [Dave] on the YouTube Channel Dave’s Armoury can make it.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/21/hackaday-hardware-store-marauders-map-is-clarkian-magic/The Register: AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite. “Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.”
Tom’s Hardware: DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems. “Developer Michael Ayles has unleashed a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application, of all places. KiDOOM is a portmanteau of KiCad, the free and open […]
Hackaday: Building A Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy. “It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again to life-sized proportions. Case in point the LEGO Technic dune buggy that [Matt Denton] recently printed at effectively human scale, while also […]
KORANMANDALA.COM – Bupati Garut Abdusy Syakur Amin menghadiri Rapat Koordinasi Nasional (Rakornas) Percepatan Penurunan Stunting Tahun 2025 yang digelar di Ruang Auditorium J. Leimena, Gedung Adhyatma Lantai 2, Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia, Jakarta, Rabu (12/11/2025). Rakornas bertema “Mengukuhkan Komitmen Bersama untuk Pencegahan dan Percepatan Penurunan Stunting” itu dihadiri langsung oleh Wakil Presiden RI Gibran Rakabuming… https://www.koranmandala.com/daerah/205344/garut-raih-insentif-fiskal-rp56-miliar-atas-keberhasilan-tekan-angka-stunting/ #Daerah #Garut #Stunting
ZDNet: How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next. “Ólafur Waage, a senior software developer from Iceland who now works in Norway, explained at Ubuntu Summit 25.10 how he… ended up making what is perhaps the game’s most outlandish port yet: Doom running on a real satellite in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) OPS-SAT satellite.”
Tom’s Hardware: Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks — AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game. “In an amazing feat of Minecraft Redstone engineering, Sammyuri — famed for building a 1Hz CPU inside the game — has built a small language model that runs on a computer inside Minecraft, […]
PC World: It’s official: Doom can run for 2.5 years straight without crashing. “Even the most simple, stable game can’t run forever. In endless mode, I’ve gotten something as lowkey as 20 Minutes Till Dawn—a 2D pixelated game with only four colors—to crash a gaming PC. But what about the ever-venerable Doom? Someone did an incredible test and found that it’ll take the 1993 shooter […]
PC Gamer: This entire website is hosted on a disposable vape so think twice before throwing one in the trash . “[A] website is hosted on the microcontroller from a disposable vape, and it’s surprisingly snappy. Some disposable vapes come with a surprising amount of tech packed into them, including screens and microcontrollers.” Currently overwhelmed and returning 503 errors.
Fish mint, Himalayan chives and berry pickle: how wild ingredients are transforming school dinners in India https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/15/state-school-meals-india-meghalaya-foraged-wild-indigenous-foods-menus #SouthandcentralAsia #Globaldevelopment #Indigenouspeoples #Health&wellbeing #Globalhealth #Lifeandstyle #Environment #Schoolmeals #Nutrition #Worldnews #Education #Stunting #Foraging #Schools #India #Food
Tom’s Hardware: DOOM multiplayer tribute gets coded in ‘pure SQL’ and runs at 30FPS — made from just 150 lines of code in less than a month. “A computer scientist used only ‘pure SQL’ to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game. The resulting first-person shooter game, cobbled from a mere ~150 lines of Python code, is dubbed DOOMQL. Despite the self-imposed software architecture restrictions, […]
Geeks are Sexy: Yes, This 30-Pound Shirt Is 100% LEGO (and Totally Wearable). “Beyond the Brick’s Joshua Hanlon just tried on a fully wearable Hawaiian shirt made of over 25,000 LEGO pieces. It’s got palm trees, sunsets, and actual LEGO buttons. Designer Neil Snowball spent over 100 hours creating this thing, ordering thousands of pieces one box at a time.”
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