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[Link] Copyright, What You Need To Know
Read: 6/2/2022 hackaday.com
Last week brought the story of a group of crypto enthusiasts who paid well over the going rate for a rare sci-fi book, then proposed encoding scans of all its pages in a blockchain before making and selling NFTs of them. To guarantee their rarity the book was then to be burned.
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[Link] ESP8266 Based WiFi Game Boy Cartridge Browses WikiPedia
Read: 19/12/2021 hackaday.com
[Sebastian Staacks] came across his old Game Boy and was wondering (as you do) what happened to recent attempts at getting a WiFi interface wedged into a standard cartridge. After a while the conclusion was that people had been scuppered by approaching the problem in a way that made it too hard.
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[Link] Inkplate Comes Full Circle, Becomes True Open Reader
Read: 4/11/2021 hackaday.com
Regular readers will likely remember the Inkplate, an open hardware electronic paper development board that combines an ESP32 with a recycled Kindle screen.
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[Link] The Sincerest Form Of Flattery: Cloning Open-Source Hardware
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’re great proponents (and beneficiaries) of open-source hardware here at Hackaday. It’s impossible to overstate the impact that the free sharing of ideas has had on the hacker hardware scene.
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