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Artist brain. Engineer heart. Craftsman hands. Hacker soul. #GreenShoeGarage #OutsiderArt #STEM #CitizenScience #RightToRepair #EthicalHacking #Maker #DigitalCitizenship N1HNP #OrdainedHeathen #NavyVet 2^33 https://michaelbparks.com

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 17

Been hacking together a way to run an Xlaserlabs X1 Pro laser welder/cutter with the ArcDroid CNC platform. Read about the journey here! gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/exploring-...

Exploring CNC Laser Cutting with ArcDroid and the Xlaserlabs X1 Pro

Fire the lasers!!!

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 1d

Don't know what type of electrical connector is on your PCB? Try the Connectorbook’s Web Tool

Avoid Missed Connections With The Connectorbook’s Web Tool

Connectors are wonderful and terrible things. Wonderful, in that splicing wires every time you need to disassemble something is really, really annoying. Terrible in that it can be just such an incr…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 1d

Teaching Math With 3D Printers

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, electronics, robotics, chemistry, or physics, there’s…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 1d

Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model

Llion Jones, co-creator of the transformer technology powering ChatGPT, warns AI research has become too narrow and says he's moving on from his own invention.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 2d

Fall.

Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 2d

EVT, DVT, and PVT: Manufacture Stages Explained - Latest News from Seeed Studio www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2025/10...

EVT, DVT, and PVT: Manufacture Stages Explained - Latest News from Seeed Studio

Discover how Seeed Studio’s ODM service navigates EVT, DVT, and PVT stages to ensure your electronic product is robust, reliable, and ready for manufacture.

www.seeedstudio.com

Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 5d

To Be a Circuitsmith and Bitwright gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/to-be-a-ci...

To Be a Circuitsmith and Bitwright

When Art meets Engineering, New Jobs for a New World

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 5d

The 5 Guiding Principles of My Work gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/the-5-guid...

The 5 Guiding Principles of My Work

I Make Therefore I Am.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 5d

Reverse Engineering STL Files With FreeCAD hackaday.com/2025/10/21/r...

Reverse Engineering STL Files With FreeCAD

If you think about it, STL files are like PDF files. You usually create them using some other program, export them, and then expect them to print. But you rarely do serious editing on a PDF or an S…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 7d

Need Something Repaired? Now There’s an App for That www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Need Something Repaired? Now There’s an App for That

The Repair App is a new platform that connects trusted repair service providers with people who need their stuff fixed. It couldn’t come at a better time for economically strapped consumers.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 12d

Meet Arduino – and UNO Q! – at Maker Faire Rome | Arduino Blog blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/14/m...

Meet Arduino – and UNO Q! – at Maker Faire Rome | Arduino Blog

From October 17th to 19th, the Gazometro Ostiense in Rome will once again become a playground for innovation as Maker Faire Rome returns to celebrate the brilliant minds turning ideas into reality.…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 12d

Scouting America Launches First-Ever AI and Cybersecurity Merit Badges - Scouting Newsroom www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releas...

Scouting America Launches First-Ever AI and Cybersecurity Merit Badges - Scouting Newsroom

Cutting-edge badges prepare Scouts for success in technology, marking a new era of digital adventure IRVING, Texas (October 14, 2025) — For over a century, Scouting America has inspired youth ……

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 12d

The Ford Truckle acutabovebuckles.com/the-truckle/

The Truckle™ Belt Buckle – The First-Ever Ford Key Fob Locker

Never lose your Ford key fob again. The Truckle™ combines bold Western style with built Ford Tough™ craftsmanship.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 18d

The Entire Process Of Building An Open Source Analog ASIC hackaday.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Entire Process Of Building An Open Source Analog ASIC

Our hacker [Pat Deegan] of Psychogenic Technologies shows us the entire process of designing an analog ASIC. An ASIC is of course an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, which is basically just…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 19d

Live: Arduino Announce UNO Q, App Lab, and Qualcomm Acquisition - Make: makezine.com/article/tech...

Live: Arduino Announce UNO Q, App Lab, and Qualcomm Acquisition - Make:

Arduino Announce UNO Q, App Lab, and Qualcomm Acquisition at Turin event

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 23d

Implementing A Kalman Filter In PostgreSQL To Smooth GPS Data hackaday.com/2025/10/02/i...

Implementing A Kalman Filter In PostgreSQL To Smooth GPS Data

Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in point the PostgreSQL database and its – Ada-based – PL/pgSQL p…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 23d

GoR Zine 1.003 gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/gor-zine-1...

GoR Zine 1.003

Lilac Love

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 23d

AI's Thoughts on GenAI As Art gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/ais-though...

AI's Thoughts on GenAI As Art

How Does the 19th-Century Fight Over Photography vs Painting Inform the 21st-Century Debate on AI versus Human-made Art?

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · 24d

tools should empower, not replace the human...

Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 24

'Workslop': AI-Generated Work Content Is Slowing Everything Down gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-...

'Workslop': AI-Generated Work Content Is Slowing Everything Down

AI slop has infiltrated the workplace, costing companies time and money.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 19

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping www.engadget.com/ai/reddit-ya...

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

The group is looking to music royalty nonprofits for inspiration.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 19

The Magic Of The Hall Effect Sensor hackaday.com/2025/09/09/t...

The Magic Of The Hall Effect Sensor

Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of a Hall Effect sensor — in this case, one salvaged from an old CPU fan. Two LEDs, a 100 ohm resistor, and a 3.…

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 19

What Cuts What? Lasering Different Materials - Make: makezine.com/article/digi...

What Cuts What? Lasering Different Materials - Make:

No laser cutter can do everything, but here's a table of which materials the three most common types of lasers can handle.

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Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 17

Been hacking together a way to run an Xlaserlabs X1 Pro laser welder/cutter with the ArcDroid CNC platform. Read about the journey here! gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/exploring-...

Exploring CNC Laser Cutting with ArcDroid and the Xlaserlabs X1 Pro

Fire the lasers!!!

gearsofresistance.substack.com

Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 17

Mike Parks, PE @michaelbparks.com · Sep 16

First successful test cut with the Xlaserlabs X1 Pro and the ArcDroid CNC platform. 50% power / 1000Hz / 100% Duty Cycle / 90psi compressed air. 1/16” stainless.