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2027 Slate Truck 1st Look: America's New Cheapest Pickup? 🛻 🔌 🔋 ⌚

The host is 6’10” tall. The truck is still tiny, but for normal size humans it’ll fit you!

Crank windows and no touchscreen—what? This tiny all-electric truck is ultra-inexpensive, but offers huge potential for customization and modification to suit your needs and preferences. You can even turn it into a five-seat SUV.

@motortrend

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Security engineer @alexhaydock acquired a Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop. He intended to use it to emulate games, but when he realized that it could be used to host a website, he decided to try that instead. @404mediaco’s Samantha Cole spoke to him about how well it’s working, and what he’s planning to do with it (#EMF2026, here he comes). Check out the second link to find out how our friends at 404 are doing, and what they’re cooking up next.

404media.co/this-website-is-ru

404media.co/how-404-media-is-n

404 Media · This Website Is Running on a WiiAlex Haydock found a dusty old Wii console at a hardware swap and modded it to run his website.

🎮 Exciting news for retro gaming enthusiasts and Open Hardware fans!

The Open DMG Display project is now live! This open-source TFT mod for the original Game Boy (DMG-01) is powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2350B. Features include dimming, palette switching, automatic game detection, and more. All files are available, making it fully open-source and open hardware. Check it out and bring your Game Boy into the modern era! linkhttps://www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/250417_open_dmg_display/ #OpenDMGDisplay #GameBoy #RetroGaming #OpenSource #Modding #RP2350B #OpenSource #OpenHardware #DIY

Some more progress on the Black Hole Generator! I messed a little with particle effects and tried giving it a little Accretion Disk that gets bigger as more stuff gets sucked into the Schwarzschild Radius. It's not perfect yet, and the particles can get a little funky if they're turned down in the settings, but overall I like where this is headed!

After an initial round of feedback, I've tweaked how the BHG "fires" the singularity. Instead of it being thrown from the gun itself, it now spawns wherever you're looking when it fires. Because of this, the player themselves are also beholden to the gravitational pull, which is definitely an added risk to the reward of being able to immediately delete everything across the battlefield...

I've been trying to decide what other weird weapons I want to add to my pack along with the pipebombs I've showed off before, and I've got a few stewing in some early notes documents here and there, but I was quickly inspired to make this behemoth, the Black Hole Generator, or BHG. Most of the base weapon code pulls from the standard BFG-9000 that HDest defines, but instead of a giant ball of Gretchenfrage flavored death, this gun fires, as the name implies, a Black Hole Singularity.

Still working on the graphical assets while I nail down the mechanics, but I finally got this thing behaving in a way that doesn't immediately crash or destroy itself out of nowhere, so that's progress!