I’m sure you’ve seen those “capcha” images on various sites — you know, those twisted, distorted images of a few letters and numbers which you have to try to read and input to prove you’re human. These are a big PITA, but they’re one of the easier way to defeat spammers, yet some still get past. This shows how.
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Bake yourself a medieval castle cake
Let’s take a detour from the usual tech stuff and take a look at what might be called the geekiest way to bake a cake.
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Home built PIC microcontroller cluster project
This guy is building a cluster of low-cost PIC microcontrollers to experiment and learn with parallel computing design.
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Animated theory on the construction of the pyramids
Today, I take a little detour from the usual tech-related stuff I think is cool to look at 3,000+ year old tech, or at least one potential theory on how it worked: how the great pyramids were constructed.
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AVR based LCD display connects via ethernet
Here’s a cool project that lets you display text on a dot matrix LCD via an ethernet connection and web interface.
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