Rock Paper Shotgun on MSN

Can the SideWinder game pad, Microsoft's first game controller, work on modern PCs? I bought three of them to find out

Remembering - and attempting to test out - the SideWinder Game Pad, the PC-first controller that Microsoft forgot.

Trying out local LLMs with Raspberry Pi 5 8GB RAM + Ollama

IntroductionLocal LLMs have already been written about in various places. As I see the variety increasing day by day, I ...
Hackaday

Arduino Hacks

There are plenty of “robot” projects out there that are really just a small remote control platform of some sort. We often like to think of robots of having some sort of autonomy though. [Luca Fagioli ...
Hackaday

An Attempt At A Useful Desktop OS For Microcontrollers

We’re living at an interesting time here in 2026, when microcontrollers are becoming powerful enough to surpass the ...
NPR

Due South

“Due South” is WUNC News’ weekday current affairs radio program and podcast. Broadcast from the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham, co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii put life ...
XDA Developers

I built Obsidian into my productivity hub and stopped paying for five separate apps

That’s when I decided to see how far I could push Obsidian. I transformed Obsidian into a full-fledged productivity hub and ...