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Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
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Thibault Martin: Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I've decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I'm using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up.
I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let's explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a homelabber, and how I automated as much of it as possible. In a follow-up post we will explore how to spin-up and configure VMs in a reproducible way on that setup.
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Hackaday ☛ Open Source 5-Axis Printer Has Its Own Slicer
Three-axis 3D printing has been with us long enough that everybody knows the limitations, but so far, adding extra axes has been very much a niche endeavor. [Daniel] at Fractal Robotics wants to change that, with the Fractal 5 Pro 5-axis printer, and its corresponding Fractal Cortex slicer.
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Hackaday ☛ How To Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance In Mind
One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that should fit together actually do. While adding significant tolerance between parts is an option, often you want to have a friction fit or at least a gap that you cannot drive a truck through. In a video by [Slant 3D] a number of tips and tricks to improve parts design with tolerance in mind are provided.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ R2-D2 VEX robot
Dan converted a motionless Star Wars toy without motors or wheels into a fully animated R2-D2 robot; Raspberry Pi 3, gearing, and parts from existing VEX Robotics construction kits made it walk and turn its head
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Arduino ☛ This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs
The second stage was having a modern Mac tell the Arduino what keyboard and mouse inputs to send. Jakobs programmed an application in Swift to do that and the user can activate it via a click on a little desktop widget. When active, the application will take keyboard/mouse input from the modern Mac and send it to the Macintosh Classic.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Commodore Corporation BV acquisition completed by fan-led consortium — prepare for new retro futurist products with the deal signed, sealed, and paid for ahead of schedule
Christian ‘Peri Fractic’ Simpson has confirmed that his much touted community-led acquisition of Commodore has been signed, sealed, and paid for. The Retro Recipes YouTuber announced the finalizing of the Commodore Corporation BV deal on the streets of the Netherlands this week, flanked by an assortment of Commodore legends of old, under the banner “We did it! Commodore is home!”
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Original Amiga prototype spotted at VCF West 2025 vintage computing show — rarely seen forerunner to Amiga 1000 from early 1984
A very early pre-Commodore Amiga computer prototype was on public display at VCF West 2025 this weekend.
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Unicorn Media ☛ Dear Mr. District Attorney, Fight 3D Printed Guns the Right Way
From bulletproof backpacks to banning file downloads: why our fight against 3D-printed guns keeps missing the point—and what policy leaders should really be asking.