FLOSS Weekly Episode 844: Simulated Word-of-Mouth
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alt=""/>This week Jonathan, Doc, and Aaron chat about Open Source AI, advertisements, and where we’re at in the bubble roller coaster! 
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 844: Simulated Word-of-Mouth
This week Jonathan, Doc, and Aaron chat about Open Source AI, advertisements, and where we’re at in the bubble roller coaster!
Hackaday
FLOSS Weekly Episode 844: Simulated Word-of-Mouth
This week Jonathan, Doc, and Aaron chat about Open Source AI, advertisements, and where we’re at in the bubble roller coaster!
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alt=""/>When [upir] saw that you could buy tire valve stem caps that read pressure electronically, he decided to roll his own Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) like the one found 
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alt=""/>Suppose someone came to talk to you and said, “I need your help. I have a Raspberry Pi-based robot and I want to develop a custom Android app to control 
![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Lynx-R1-2.png?w=800")
alt=""/>Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open 
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alt="A preproduction U1 sitting on a workbench"/>Modern multi-material printers certainly have their advantages, but all that purging has a way to add up to oodles of waste. Tool-changing printers offer a way to do multi-material prints 
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alt="A view of the schematics for each major component."/>Over on his blog our hacker [cpt_tom] shows us how to simulate the hardware for a Commodore PET. Two of them in fact, one with static RAM and the other 
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alt=""/>Do you like writing software for Android, perhaps even sideload the occasional APK onto your Android device? In that case some big changes are heading your way, with Google announcing 
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alt=""/>For a farmer or gardener, fruit trees offer a way to make food (and sometimes money) with a minimum of effort, especially when compared to growing annual vegetables. Mature trees 
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alt=""/>Ryobi is not exactly the Cadillac of cordless tools, but one still has certain expectations when buying a product. For most of us “don’t randomly stop working” is on the ![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/beer-main.jpg?w=800")
alt=""/>There’s little more to making alcoholic beverages than sugar, water, yeast, and time. Of course those with more refined or less utilitarian tastes may want to invest a bit more 
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alt=""/>The April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a rescue at sea could be in the New ![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/LiquidLevels.jpg?w=800")
alt=""/>As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve 
![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/15.-Credit-KM3NeT.png?w=800"/>Neutrinos)
are exceedingly common in the Universe, with billions of them zipping around us throughout the day from a variety of sources. Due to their extremely low mass and no 
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alt=""/>There are few computing collapses more spectacular than the downfall of Commodore, but its rise as a home computer powerhouse in the early 80s was equally impressive. Driven initially by 
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alt=""/>The best part about post-mortem teardowns of electronics is when you discover some unusual design features, whether or not these are related to the original fault. In the case of 
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alt=""/>We can understand why shaderacademy.com chose that name over “the shady school,” but whatever they call it, if you are looking to brush up on graphics programming with GPUs, it 
![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MalcomJCamFeat.jpg?w=800"/>When)
someone hacks together a digital camera with a Raspberry Pi, the limiting factor for serious photography is usually the sensor. No offense to the fine folks at the foundation, ![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Butta-Melta.png?w=800")
alt=""/>Ever ruin a perfectly serviceable piece of toast by trying (and failing) to spread a little pat of rock-solid butter? [John Dingley] doesn’t! Not since he created the Butta Melta 
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alt=""/>We’re used to interfaces such as I2C and one-wire as easy ways to hook up sensors and other peripherals to microcontrollers. While they’re fine within the confines of a small 
