"Il punto non è tanto ridere di un mucchio di teorie da pazzi; il punto è capire che teorie come queste, ridicole, deliranti quanto volete, siano arrivate ad essere prese tanto sul serio da spingere qualcuno ad assaltare il Parlamento. Perché la follia, quando è collettiva, non solo è pericolosa; non solo può diventare realtà ma ha sempre un perché. Il punto è che le teorie di Q non sono nuove ma vanno a battere su di un tasto, una specie di inconscio collettivo di una nazione che le rende magicamente credibili."

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#Qanon #complottismo #podcast #podcastitaliano #italia #fakenews #trump #sciamano #noncelodicono #pericolo #disinformazione #disordineinformazione #raiplay

Non ce lo dicono1!! | S1E4 | Q come Qomplotto | RaiPlay Sound

4. Q come Qomplotto - Non ce lo dicono1!! - Si chiama QAnon, ed è la più potente e influente teoria di complotto contemporanea, che dagli Stati Uniti sta raggiungendo l'Europa.

^RaiPlaySound

esce il 16 maggio:
slowforward.net/2025/04/22/pri…
ma è già prenotabile (acquistabile) qui:
declicedizioni.it/prodotto/pri…

#declicedizioni #declic #primadelloggetto #prosabreve #prosa #antinarrazioni

slowforward

2025-04-22 11:35:07

“prima dell’oggetto”… prossimamente

❑ Da 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙡’𝙤𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙤 di MG, in uscita per 𝗱𝗲́𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰 venerdì 𝟭𝟲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗼

declicedizioni.it/prodotto/pri…

#antiracconto #controracconto #déclic #MG #PrimaDellOggetto #prosa #prosaBreve #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #testiDiMgInRete #testiDiMgOnline

Prima dell'oggetto - declic edizioni

16 maggio 2025

^{déclic edizioni di carlo sperduti}

"O italiani, io vi esorto alle lettere in rete. Le lettere sperimentali, complesse. Le lettere di ricerca. (O i saggi sulla).
Don’t be shy. Create il vostro blog, o il vostro sito o la vostra newsletter (substack, mailchimp, ..)."

[ da slowforward.net/2025/04/04/exo… : insisto e reinsisto! ]

mettiamola così: con Slowforward (slowforward.net) sono a uno dei semafori della rete, e vi faccio cenno indicando il vostro parabrezza: se apprezzate e vi fa piacere che io quotidianamente vi aiuti a renderlo ben trasparente e sensibile a informazioni & notizie su #scritturadiricerca #scritturasperimentale #palestina #asemicwriting #scritturaasemica #antifascismo #prosa #prosabreve #prosainprosa #artecontemporanea #materialiverbovisivi #audio #podcast #video #presentazioni #criticaletteraria #teorialetteraria #letturepubbliche #progettiletterari #archivi #anni70 ... non avete da fare altro che offrirmi un caffè:

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[Sean Boyce] has been busy building board games. Specifically, an electronic strategy boardgame that is miraculously also compatible with Settlers of Catan.

[Sean’s] game is called Calculus. It’s about mining asteroids and bartering. You’re playing as a corporation attempting to mine the asteroid against up to three others doing the same. Do a good job of exploiting the space-based resource, and you’ll win the game.

Calculus is played on a board made out of PCBs. A Xiao RP2040 microcontroller board on the small PCB in the center of the playfield is responsible for running the show. It controls a whole ton of seven-segment displays and RGB LEDs across multiple PCBs that make up the gameboard. The lights and displays help players track the game state as they vie for asteroid mining supremacy. Amusingly, by virtue of its geometry and some smart design choices, you can also use [Sean]’s board to play Settlers of Catan. He’s even designed a smaller, cheaper travel version, too.

We do see some interesting board games around these parts, because hackers and makers are just that creative. If you’ve got your own board game hacks or builds in the works, don’t hesitate to let us know!

hackaday.com/2025/04/26/creati…

If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost guaranteed to think about building a coil winder. Maybe that’s why so many people do. [Jtacha] did a take on the project, and we were impressed — it looks great.

The device has a keypad and an LCD. You can enter a number of turns or the desired inductance. It also lets you wind at an angle. So it is suitable for RF coils, Tesla coils, or any other reason you need a coil.

There are a number of 3D printed parts, so this doesn’t look like an hour project. Luckily, none of the parts are too large. The main part is 2020 extrusion, and you will need to tap the ends of some of the pieces.

There is a brief and strangely dark video in the post if you want to see the machine in operation. The resulting coil looked good, especially if you compare it to how our hand-wound ones usually look.

While most of the coil winders we see have some type of motor, that’s not a necessity.

hackaday.com/2025/04/26/anothe…

The self-propelled zip fastener uses a worm gear to propel itself along the teeth. (Credit: YKK)
At first glance the very idea of a zipper that unzips and zips up by itself seems somewhat ridiculous. After all, these contraptions are mostly used on pieces of clothing and gear where handling a zipper isn’t really sped up by having an electric motor sluggishly move through the rows of interlocking teeth. Of course, that’s not the goal of YKK, which is the world’s largest manufacturer of zip fasteners. The demonstrated prototype (original PR in Japanese) shows this quite clearly, with a big tent and equally big zipper that you’d be hard pressed to zip up by hand.

The basic application is thus more in industrial applications and similar, with one of the videos, embedded below, showing a large ‘air tent’ being zipped up automatically after demonstrating why for a human worker this would be an arduous task. While this prototype appears to be externally powered, adding a battery or such could make it fully wireless and potentially a real timesaver when setting up large structures such as these. Assuming the battery isn’t flat, of course.

It might conceivably be possible to miniaturize this technology to the point where it’d ensure that no fly is ever left unzipped, and school kids can show off their new self-zipping jacket to their friends. This would of course have to come with serious safety considerations, as anyone who has ever had a bit of their flesh caught in a zipper can attest to.

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ykk.com/newsroom/g_news/2025/2…

hackaday.com/2025/04/26/ykks-s…

While most hams and hackers have at least heard of Heathkit, most people don’t know the strange origin story of the legendary company. [Ham Radio Gizmos] takes us all through the story.

In case you don’t remember, Heathkit produced everything from shortwave radios to color TVs to test equipment and even computers. But, for the most part, when you bought something from them, you didn’t get a finished product. You got a bag full of parts and truly amazing instructions about how to put them together. Why? Well, if you are reading Hackaday, you probably know why. But some people did it to learn more about electronics. Others were attracted by the lower prices you paid for some things if you built them yourself. Others just liked the challenge.

But Heathkit’s original kit wasn’t electronic at all. It was an airplane kit. Not a model airplane, it was an actual airplane. Edward Heath sold airplane kits at the affordable price around $1,000. In 1926, that was quite a bit of money, but apparently still less than a commercial airplane.

Sadly, Heath took off in a test plane in 1931, crashed, and died. The company struggled to survive until 1935, when Howard Anthony bought the company and moved it to the familiar Benton Harbor address. The company still made aircraft kits.

During World War II, the company mobilized to produce electronic parts for wartime aircraft. After the war, the government disposed of surplus, and Howard Anthony casually put in a low bid on some. He won the bid and was surprised to find out the lot took up five rail cars. Among the surplus were some five-inch CRTs used in radar equipment. This launched the first of Heathkit’s oscilloscopes — the O1. At $39.50, it was a scope people could afford, as long as they could build it. The O-series scopes would be staples in hobby workshops for many years.

There’s a lot more in the video. Well worth the twenty minutes. If you’ve never seen a Heathkit manual, definitely check out the one in the video. They were amazing. Or download a couple. No one creates instructions like this anymore.

If you watch the video, be warned, there will be a quiz, so pay attention. But here’s a hint: there’s no right answer for #3. We keep hearing that someone owns the Heathkit brand now, and there have been a few new products. But, at least so far, it hasn’t really been the same.

hackaday.com/2025/04/26/rememb…

Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that, tasty random bytes delivered fresh over MQTT.

[Sean] tells us he’s been “designing various quantum TRNGs for nearly 15 years as part of an elaborate practical joke” without further explanation. We won’t query as to why, and just examine the project itself. The main source of randomness — entropy, if you will — is a pair of transistors hooked up to create a bunch of avalanche noise that is apparently truly random, much like the zener diode method.

In any case, the noise from the transistors is then passed through a bunch of hex inverters and other supporting parts to shape the noise into a nicely random square wave. This is sampled by an ATtiny261A acting as a Von Neumann extractor, which converts the wave into individual bits of lovely random entropy. These are read by a Pi Pico W, which then assembles random bytes and pushes them out over MQTT.

Did that sound like a lot? If you’re not in the habit of building random number generators, it probably did. Nevertheless, we’ve heard from [Sean] on this topic before. Feel free to share your theories on the best random number generator designs below, or send your best builds straight to the tipsline. Randomly, of course!

hackaday.com/2025/04/26/quantu…