Mike Parks, PE
@michaelbparks.com
Artist brain. Engineer heart. Craftsman hands. Hacker soul. #GreenShoeGarage #OutsiderArt #STEM #CitizenScience #RightToRepair #EthicalHacking #Maker #DigitalCitizenship N1HNP #OrdainedHeathen #NavyVet 2^33
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Mike Parks, PE
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· Sep 17
Exploring CNC Laser Cutting with ArcDroid and the Xlaserlabs X1 Pro
Fire the lasers!!!
gearsofresistance.substack.com
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-...
Nest Thermostat: Now 100% Less Evil
Nest Thermostat: Now 100% Less Evil
If you have a Nest thermostat of the first or second generation, you probably noticed it recently became dumber. Google decided to pull the plug on the servers that operate these devices, turning t…
hackaday.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Nest Thermostat: Now 100% Less Evil
Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world.
Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world
AliExpress-bought LED bulb includes a BL602 RISC-V-powered microcontroller.
www.tomshardware.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world.
It seems Artificial Intelligence is really good at enabling Natural Stupidity.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It seems Artificial Intelligence is really good at enabling Natural Stupidity.
Matterbridge: a Matter plugin manager
blog.adafruit.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Matterbridge: a Matter plugin manager
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee.
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee.
sbc.compare helps you find the right single board computer
Compare Single Board Computers - Single Board Computer Comparison Tool
Compare single board computers with comprehensive benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data. Find the perfect SBC for your project.
sbc.compare
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
sbc.compare helps you find the right single board computer
Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, farm systems
Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, farm systems
: Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls
www.theregister.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, farm systems
Thought for the day... "You can't put your arm around a memory". Johnny Thunders.
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thought for the day... "You can't put your arm around a memory". Johnny Thunders.
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...
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…
hackaday.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Don't know what type of electrical connector is on your PCB? Try the Connectorbook’s Web Tool
Teaching Math With 3D Printers
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…
hackaday.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Teaching Math With 3D Printers
Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model
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.
venturebeat.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model
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
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
EVT, DVT, and PVT: Manufacture Stages Explained - Latest News from Seeed Studio www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2025/10...
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
gearsofresistance.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
To Be a Circuitsmith and Bitwright gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/to-be-a-ci...
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.
gearsofresistance.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The 5 Guiding Principles of My Work gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/the-5-guid...
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…
hackaday.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reverse Engineering STL Files With FreeCAD hackaday.com/2025/10/21/r...
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.
www.wired.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Need Something Repaired? Now There’s an App for That www.wired.com/story/the-re...
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.…
blog.arduino.cc
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Meet Arduino – and UNO Q! – at Maker Faire Rome | Arduino Blog blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/14/m...
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 ……
www.scoutingnewsroom.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Scouting America Launches First-Ever AI and Cybersecurity Merit Badges - Scouting Newsroom www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releas...
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.
acutabovebuckles.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Ford Truckle acutabovebuckles.com/the-truckle/
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…
hackaday.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Entire Process Of Building An Open Source Analog ASIC hackaday.com/2025/10/08/t...
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
makezine.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Live: Arduino Announce UNO Q, App Lab, and Qualcomm Acquisition - Make: makezine.com/article/tech...
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…
hackaday.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Implementing A Kalman Filter In PostgreSQL To Smooth GPS Data hackaday.com/2025/10/02/i...
GoR Zine 1.003 gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/gor-zine-1...
GoR Zine 1.003
Lilac Love
gearsofresistance.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
GoR Zine 1.003 gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/gor-zine-1...