We’ve seen plenty of custom controllers over the years , but for those who prefer the tactile feel of a keyboard, Adafruit has put together a guide to make your own little keyboard-gamepad. Read more…
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Make a Custom Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard Gamepad
Making rope is hard. Making rope the way the Vikings did it over a thousand years ago is even harder. First, you have to find the right tree. Then, you have to strip the bark of the tree when the sap is rising. And then, you soak the bark you just harvested in the sea for three to four months before you can even think about turning it into rope. Read more…
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Watch Rope Get Made From a Tree Using a Thousand-Year-Old Technique
CyanogenMod was the biggest, most widely used custom Android ROM . Now, it has been discontinued, due in part to internal conflicts within Cyanogen Inc . Don’t worry, though: A new fork of CyanogenMod called Lineage OS is taking up the mantle, and it will keep most of what you loved about CyanogenMod. Read more…
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CyanogenMod Is Dead, and Its Successor is Lineage OS
If you’ve ever wanted to live stream to YouTube but didn’t want to spend much money to do so, MakeUseOf has a guide for setting up a Raspberry Pi as a live streaming device that’ll broadcast automatically. Read more…
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Set Up a Raspberry Pi as a Live Streaming Camera That Broadcasts to YouTube
We’ve seen little DIY volume knobs before , and they’re a handy way to add means to finely adjust the volume on your computer. Instructables user Trochilidesign’s made their own, and it’s pretty futuristic looking. Read more…
By now the Amazon boxes are piling up in your house before the holidays. Before you toss them in the recycling, Give Back Box wants them. The service, in partnership with Amazon, will give you free shipping labels to send donations to Goodwill. Read more…
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Use Your Old Amazon Boxes to Ship Donations to Goodwill For Free
A large fire has engulfed scores of houses, shops, and other buildings in the Japanese coastal city of Itoigawa. The blaze, which started mid-morning local time, shows no sign of slowing, and fire crews are frantically working to put out the flames. Read more…
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Huge Fire Torches 140 Buildings in Japanese City
Scientists have uncovered 2 billion-year-old water in an Ontario mine. (Image: University of Toronto) Canadian Geoscientists have uncovered water that dates back a whopping two billion years. It’s the oldest water ever discovered on Earth, and it could broaden our understanding of how life emerged on our planet—and possibly elsewhere. Read more…
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Two Billion-Year-Old Water Found in Canadian Mine
We’ve known that Disney is doing a brand new DuckTales for a while, but now we’re starting to get some solid details about who’ll be providing the voices of our feathered friends… and it turns out a former Time Lord and Marvel villain is lending his brogue to Scrooge McDuck himself. Read more…
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David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America are coming together to form the fifth largest U.S. carrier, and if you fly either airline often their merger means a few changes for you. Here’s what you can expect. Read more…
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Alaska Airlines and Virgin America Are Merging, Here’s What It Means for You