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TRNXSDR-carrier: The SDR Baseboard Built for Fiber, Slots, and Serious RF
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TRNXSDR-carrier: The SDR Baseboard Built for Fiber, Slots, and Serious RF
A Zynq-powered carrier board that treats SDR like a modular computing problem, with high-speed module slots, SFP fiber output, DDR3, and USB-C power delivery.
7 min read
UnityOrbisBridge: The Side Door From Unity Into PlayStation Homebrew
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UnityOrbisBridge: The Side Door From Unity Into PlayStation Homebrew
A deep dive into the bridge that lets C# scripts cross into native PlayStation code, navigate jailbreak paths, and reach hardware and system functions that Unity never meant to expose.
11 min read
The Ghost in the War Machine: Unpacking iw5-scripts
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The Ghost in the War Machine: Unpacking iw5-scripts
How the Plutonium project decompiled 15,000 files of proprietary Call of Duty logic to build an open-source multiplayer ecosystem.
8 min read
The Ghost in the War Machine: Unpacking t4-scripts
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The Ghost in the War Machine: Unpacking t4-scripts
How a proprietary 2008 scripting language uses threaded concurrency and spatial mathematics to power modern Call of Duty dedicated servers.
8 min read
The Engine Whisperers: Unpacking plutonium-sdk
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The Engine Whisperers: Unpacking plutonium-sdk
How modern C++ infrastructure and strict ABI contracts brought enterprise-grade memory safety to the wild west of classic game modding.
8 min read
RealActionButton: The Tweak That Teaches iPhone’s Action Button to Count
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RealActionButton: The Tweak That Teaches iPhone’s Action Button to Count
A deep dive into a jailbreak tweak that intercepts hardware events, separates single and double presses with a tiny timing engine, and even replays Apple’s own button lifecycle when you choose the system default.
8 min read
Renderite: The IPC Layer That Lets Resonite Split Its Brain From Its Renderer
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Renderite: The IPC Layer That Lets Resonite Split Its Brain From Its Renderer
A custom shared-memory protocol, pooled commands, and frame-by-frame handoff make Unity feel less like the engine and more like one possible display target.
9 min read
plutonium-sdk-example: How Plutonium turns Call of Duty modding into a real SDK
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plutonium-sdk-example: How Plutonium turns Call of Duty modding into a real SDK
A tiny C++ template swaps offset chasing for commands, callbacks, GSC hooks, and a build path that looks like normal software.
8 min read
zwfm-encoder: The Raspberry Pi That Acts Like a Broadcast Encoder Rack
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zwfm-encoder: The Raspberry Pi That Acts Like a Broadcast Encoder Rack
A single Go binary captures studio audio, fans it out to multiple SRT destinations, watches for silence, and keeps radio engineers in the loop with real-time monitoring and alerts.
8 min read
Robokin: The Rosetta Stone for Robot Arms
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Robokin: The Rosetta Stone for Robot Arms
A backend-agnostic Python layer that turns URDFs, IK solvers, trajectory generation, and live visualization into one robotics workflow.
8 min read
rgbkb: Defeating the Hostile Keyboard
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rgbkb: Defeating the Hostile Keyboard
How a developer reverse-engineered USB packet sequences to reclaim their laptop from a distracting starry sky default.
6 min read
The Browser is the New Oscilloscope: Inside usb-Input-shaper-calibrator
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The Browser is the New Oscilloscope: Inside usb-Input-shaper-calibrator
How a React frontend and the Web Serial API replaced Linux, Python, and GPIO wiring to democratize high-speed hardware diagnostics.
7 min read
The Offline-First Strategy Engine: Inside Beariscope
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The Offline-First Strategy Engine: Inside Beariscope
How an open-source Flutter app uses spatial mapping and local caching to orchestrate robotics strategy when stadium Wi-Fi inevitably fails.
8 min read
SpectraFog: The ESP32 Project That Gives Old Cars a Fog-Savvy Sensor Brain
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SpectraFog: The ESP32 Project That Gives Old Cars a Fog-Savvy Sensor Brain
A clean Arduino architecture, mmWave radar parsing, and non-blocking telemetry turn a hobbyist board into a retrofit safety stack for low-visibility driving.
8 min read
ESPionage Firmware: The Pocket Pentest Rig That Turns Your Phone Into the Control Plane
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ESPionage Firmware: The Pocket Pentest Rig That Turns Your Phone Into the Control Plane
A deep dive into the ESP32-S3 firmware that blends Wi-Fi, BLE, USB, and browser-based telemetry into a truly laptop-free offensive toolkit.
9 min read
atari_jaguar_240p_test_suite: Atari Jaguar 240p Test Suite: Teaching a Difficult Console How to Diagnose Itself
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atari_jaguar_240p_test_suite: Atari Jaguar 240p Test Suite: Teaching a Difficult Console How to Diagnose Itself
A deep dive into BitJag’s native calibration suite, where custom text rendering, object-list graphics, and PAL-aware timing turn the Jaguar into its own test bench.
9 min read
NVIDIA/x86-power-control: The daemon that turns server power into a state machine
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NVIDIA/x86-power-control: The daemon that turns server power into a state machine
Inside the BMC logic that sequences power rails, watches for failure states, and adapts to NVIDIA hardware through configuration instead of hardcoded assumptions.
10 min read
The Eight-Bit Bridge: How ps5_sprx_abi_writeup Unlocked Cross-Gen Homebrew
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The Eight-Bit Bridge: How ps5_sprx_abi_writeup Unlocked Cross-Gen Homebrew
A journey into the ELF header to find the hidden toggle that makes PS5 system linkers play nice with legacy code.
abraxas-online: Abraxas Online: The VB6 MMORPG That Built a World Out of Sprites, Slashes, and DirectX 7
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abraxas-online: Abraxas Online: The VB6 MMORPG That Built a World Out of Sprites, Slashes, and DirectX 7
A close look at how a legacy Argentine MMO client layers character parts, parses chat like a shell, and keeps a 2D world alive with old-school rendering discipline.
10 min read
fframes-android-demo-project: The Android App That Treats Video Like Code
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fframes-android-demo-project: The Android App That Treats Video Like Code
A tiny Kotlin front end, a Rust render engine, and a JNI bridge that turns a phone into a local video factory.
7 min read
ai-smart-energy-audit-system: AI-Based Smart Energy Audit System: Why This Repo Watches the Delta, Not the Bill
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ai-smart-energy-audit-system: AI-Based Smart Energy Audit System: Why This Repo Watches the Delta, Not the Bill
An ESP32, Flask, Firebase, and Scikit-learn pipeline that turns raw current spikes into forecasting, anomaly detection, and practical energy audit intelligence.
8 min read
Signal_coverage_With_ML_Model: Signal Coverage Prediction System with ML Model: When a Heatmap Has to Respect the Earth
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Signal_coverage_With_ML_Model: Signal Coverage Prediction System with ML Model: When a Heatmap Has to Respect the Earth
This project blends geocoding fallbacks, multi-resolution spatial grids, and Gaussian Process regression to turn sparse measurements into signal maps that know when they are guessing.
8 min read
Ai-Face-recognition-Attendance-system: The Face Scan That Becomes a Web App
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Ai-Face-recognition-Attendance-system: The Face Scan That Becomes a Web App
A FastAPI attendance system that turns webcam frames into check-ins and check-outs, stores facial embeddings in MySQL, and keeps the stack simpler than you would expect.
8 min read
3sx-portmaster-rocknix: The source port that drags Street Fighter III out of emulation and onto a handheld
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3sx-portmaster-rocknix: The source port that drags Street Fighter III out of emulation and onto a handheld
A native PortMaster fork built for Rocknix devices, with ROM decryption, SDL3, rollback-ready netcode, and the kind of timing-sensitive architecture fighting games demand.
8 min read
OOSDK_LibLncUtil: The PS4 Wrapper That Turns a TitleID Into OS-Level Control
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OOSDK_LibLncUtil: The PS4 Wrapper That Turns a TitleID Into OS-Level Control
A compact OpenOrbis C library that scans the system, resolves AppIDs, loads internal modules on demand, and lets homebrew software act like a first-class launcher.
8 min read
ftmotion-extrusion-simulator: FTMotion: Debugging 3D Printer Physics in the Browser
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ftmotion-extrusion-simulator: FTMotion: Debugging 3D Printer Physics in the Browser
How a strict TypeScript port of Marlin's C++ motion algorithms turns the slow, wasteful process of tuning hardware into an instant visual sandbox.
7 min read
SmartCityApp: A Masterclass in the IoT Dashboard Pattern
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SmartCityApp: A Masterclass in the IoT Dashboard Pattern
How a lightweight Java architecture transforms raw sensor telemetry into urban intelligence using Retrofit and ThingSpeak.
rpg-db: The RPG Database That Thinks Like Production Infrastructure
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rpg-db: The RPG Database That Thinks Like Production Infrastructure
A PostgreSQL cluster for game worlds, built with Patroni, HAProxy, Flyway, and observability from the start.
10 min read
Sanket: The App That Turns Speech Into Indian Sign Language
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Sanket: The App That Turns Speech Into Indian Sign Language
A Flutter-based mediator for DHH communication that pairs 3D sign animations with a simple open-source workflow for translating speech into ISL.
8 min read
Geolocation-based-Attendance-Tracking-System-GeoAttend-: GeoAttend: The Flutter App That Turns Weak Signals Into Proof of Presence
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Geolocation-based-Attendance-Tracking-System-GeoAttend-: GeoAttend: The Flutter App That Turns Weak Signals Into Proof of Presence
A geofencing attendance system that combines polygon checks, circular geofence tiling, Wi-Fi validation, and device fingerprinting to keep attendance honest in the real world.
8 min read
Deep-Packet-Inspection: How This C++ Engine Turns Network Traffic into a Sharded State Machine
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Deep-Packet-Inspection: How This C++ Engine Turns Network Traffic into a Sharded State Machine
A close look at the flow-hashing trick, layered parsing pipeline, and SNI-based classification that let the engine inspect encrypted traffic without central locks.
10 min read
Tiny-TPU SoC: The Smallest Useful Way to Understand an AI Chip
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Tiny-TPU SoC: The Smallest Useful Way to Understand an AI Chip
A RISC-V controller, an 8x8 systolic array, and an MMIO command queue turn matrix multiplication into something you can actually follow from Python to FPGA.
9 min read
UPdiKo: The Campus Map That Knows Miagao Better Than a General Map Ever Could
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UPdiKo: The Campus Map That Knows Miagao Better Than a General Map Ever Could
A local navigation stack for UP Visayas that blends offline caches, Supabase, Leaflet, and a Miagao-specific AI guide into one practical system.
8 min read
LEDSDL: A Self-Driving Lab for Color, Built Around a Tiny Machine That Can Learn
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LEDSDL: A Self-Driving Lab for Color, Built Around a Tiny Machine That Can Learn
An ESP32, a spectral sensor, and a stochastic optimizer turn RGB light into a closed-loop experiment. The result is a desk-scale lab that measures its own output, scores the result, and tries again.
8 min read
nhr_lstm_mpc: When a Robot’s Memory Becomes Part of the Controller
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nhr_lstm_mpc: When a Robot’s Memory Becomes Part of the Controller
A learned-dynamics control stack for nonholonomic robots that combines angle-safe physics, residual sequence models, and MPC or MPPI inside one research framework.
10 min read
0xKarl-dev: The GitHub Profile That Reads Like an Operator Console
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0xKarl-dev: The GitHub Profile That Reads Like an Operator Console
A profile README that turns a developer bio into a live dashboard for Web3 automation, low-level EVM work, and on-chain identity.
6 min read
RadioClock: The Raspberry Pi Built Like Broadcast Hardware
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RadioClock: The Raspberry Pi Built Like Broadcast Hardware
A studio clock with tally lights, split web controls, and a failover model that makes a cheap Pi feel like an appliance.
8 min read
interval_buffer_isr: The Tiny Motion-Control Engine That Won’t Lose Its Phase
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interval_buffer_isr: The Tiny Motion-Control Engine That Won’t Lose Its Phase
A stepper-motor ISR planner that carries sub-step position across frames, survives direction flips, and uses formal verification to prove the error stays bounded.
8 min read
The Nervous System in a Browser: Orchestrating Neural Signals with SynapseUI
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The Nervous System in a Browser: Orchestrating Neural Signals with SynapseUI
How a React-based node graph is replacing fragile scripts with a real-time, safety-checked control plane for biological hardware.