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Turn a Webcam Spectrum Into a Live Intensity Plot
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Kousheek Chakraborty · MIT

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Software and analysis guideIntermediate

Turn a Webcam Spectrum Into a Live Intensity Plot

Kousheek Chakraborty's complete MIT-licensed analyser guide, original spectrometer photograph, and sample plots for exploring light with Python and OpenCV.

Kousheek Chakraborty

Added Oct 30, 2026
Byran Built a Laptop From Scratch. Here Is the Complete Writeup.
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Byran · MIT

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Creator build writeupAdvanced

Byran Built a Laptop From Scratch. Here Is the Complete Writeup.

The original anyon_e creation story: a removable mechanical keyboard, custom electronics, a 4K OLED display, power-system work, Linux bring-up, and a machined chassis.

Byran

Added Oct 30, 2026
An ESP32-S3 Spectrometer That Logs the Changing Daylight
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Bob Dougherty · MIT

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Instrument referenceAdvanced

An ESP32-S3 Spectrometer That Logs the Changing Daylight

Bob Dougherty's complete guide to a networked Hamamatsu C12880MA spectrometer, with sensor connections, calibration requirements, API endpoints, and the original daylight measurements.

Bob Dougherty

Added Oct 27, 2026
Cheap Yellow Display: From First Flash to a Touchscreen Interface
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Brian Lough, CYD documentation contributors · MIT

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Build guideIntermediate

Cheap Yellow Display: From First Flash to a Touchscreen Interface

Brian Lough and contributors' complete core CYD guides: setup, pins, troubleshooting, LVGL 9, and a C# nanoFramework alternative, with original configuration screenshots and hardware photography.

Brian Lough, CYD documentation contributors

Added Oct 27, 2026
Snek.js: A Tiny Terminal Game You Can Take Apart
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Tania Rascia · MIT

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Software projectBeginner

Snek.js: A Tiny Terminal Game You Can Take Apart

Tania Rascia's Node.js Snake project, with the complete MIT-licensed README, original gameplay animation, controls, installation options, and module example.

Tania Rascia

Added Oct 27, 2026
MicroscoPy: Build a Motorized LEGO Microscope
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Yuksel Temiz · Apache-2.0

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Build guideAdvanced

MicroscoPy: Build a Motorized LEGO Microscope

Yuksel Temiz's modular Raspberry Pi and Arduino microscope, with the complete original guide, assembly animations, circuit instructions, LEGO parts list, and downloadable build manuals.

Yuksel Temiz

Added Oct 3, 2026