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SB116 Programmers Calculator

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My Texas Instruments TI Programmer calculator is an excellent tool when working in 6502 assembly and other retro experiments. However going on 45 years old now the buttons are increasingly unreliable and with no good fix for the problem I took this as an opportunity to design the SB116 as a replacement that better fit my own needs.

Meridian

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Instead of another centralized service, Meridian is an open source project that can be hosted for app-specific purposes. Setup will take an export from OpenStreetMap and extract places from it, loading them into a local database. It could be hosted as a standalone service or plugged into existing platforms like Micro.blog.

Really excited about this. I’ll be watching and testing it out.

Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU

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You can run Stable Diffusion in the cloud on Replicate, but it’s also possible to run it locally. As well as generating predictions, you can hack on it, modify it, and build new things. Getting it working on an M1 Mac’s GPU is a little fiddly, so we’ve created this guide to show you how to do it.

The Original Blue LED

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Days after the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three Japanese-born scientists for their work with LED lights, CHF’s Benjamin Gross and retired physicist Jonathan Allen visited The College of New Jersey’s Sarnoff Collection, a small electronics museum where Ben serves as curator and Jonathan volunteers. Their target: what they described as the original LED, made in 1972 by an RCA researcher named Herb Maruska. With Herb on speakerphone (hooked up to one of the collection’s antique speakers, of course), Ben and Jonathan set out to light up the old contraption.