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I made some progress on the Beat Bike!
The magnet mounted on the wheel passes a reed switch which is sensed by the control box (with a Raspberry Pi Pico) and then triggers the drum machine to step through the programmed sequence.
Still a lot of work to do, mostly mounting everything onto the bike, and some more code to write, but the proof of concept is all good.
#bikeTooter

Duell der Leichtgewichte: Meta und ByteDance entwickeln ultrakompakte VR-Brillen
Meta und Pico arbeiten offenbar an Mixed-Reality-Brillen, die deutlich kompakter und leichter ausfallen sollen als Meta Quest und Apple Vision Pro.

es gibt ein pico-8 fangame über luigi aus dem super mario franchise wo man einen depressiven klempner spielt der nur nach oben gucken oder rauchen kann
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2232

@… https://words.pico.games/#PElAVRtgUklnM1IDQAARTSkQNw==

WPTN (white people taco night)

Winziger Macintosh-Nachbau: Pico-Mac-Nano bringt den Klassiker auf 62 Millimeter
Ein britischer Bastler hat den Macintosh aus dem Jahre 1984 im Miniformat nachgebaut. Er soll voll funktionsfähig sein.

VR-Brillen zum Kampfpreis auf Amazon: Welche Geräte lohnen sich?
Zum Prime Day lockt Amazon mit Rabatten auf drei aktuelle VR-Brillen – Meta Quest 3S, Pico 4 Ultra und Pimax Crystal Light. Wer sollte zuschlagen?

Not surprisingly, after spending weeks chasing innocent people around, a horny drunk armed U.S. #BorderPatrol Officer assaulted a female in a #SouthernCalifornia parking lot earlier this week...
Apptly this man's service to #MAGA

Border Patrol Agent Who Arrested U.S. Citizen In Pico Rivera Charged With Drunkenly Assaulting L.B. Cop ~ L.A. TACO
“No one is above the law, regardless of their position or badge. Law enforcement officers have a responsibility to always conduct themselves with integrity and professionalism. Our office will pursue prosecution accordingly to ensure justice is served.”

I've made *many* little SynthDIY boards over the years, targeting: low-cost, for newbies, Pico & CircuitPython. Here are some.
I've never been quite satisfied w/ the results.
Maybe the solution is more knobs & more choc keyswitches?
Good idea?
#SynthDIY #RaspberryPiPico

got a shipment of some dev boards to port #klutshnik to microcontrollers over usb/ble, these things are small, powerful and cheap!
Waveshare RP2350-Plus https://www.waveshare.com/rp2350-plus.htm

WarCraft 3 in #pico8
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=165229#p

Picocraft - a pico warcraft III demake

Video shows immigration agents urinating on Pico Rivera school grounds, officials say; feds investigating (Anissa Rivera/SGV Tribune)
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2025/07/02/school-officials-say-video-shows-immigration-agents-urinating-in-public-view-homeland-security-investigating/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p62#a250703p62

SIMulator: SIM Tracing on a (Pico-)Budget
Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Philipp \'E. Frenzel, Adrian Dabrowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20800 https://

SIMulator: SIM Tracing on a (Pico-)Budget
SIM tracing -- the ability to inspect, modify, and relay communication between a SIM card and modem -- has become a significant technique in cellular network research. It enables essential security- and development-related applications such as fuzzing communication interfaces, extracting session keys, monitoring hidden SIM activity (e.g., proactive SIM commands or over-the-air updates), and facilitating scalable, distributed measurement platforms through SIM reuse. Traditionally, achieving thes…

Did you know I studied electrical engineering besides work? On Thursday, I finished my bachelor's thesis with the final presentation and it's time to finally present my project: ZEReader, a microcontroller-based E-Reader.
Inspired by the Open Book Project by Joey Castillo, I designed my own platform from scratch. My focus was on building a reader usable in everyday life that is capable of handling books in the EPUB format. The project is still in a very early phase, but it shows…

Trabalhando no meu dia de folga por ser semana de pico de trabalho e eu estou com muitas coisas pendentes. Mas pelo menos a trilha sonora estš maravilhosa: #Madredeus…

I need to go get breakfast but Pico needs attention

Identity resolution of software metadata using Large Language Models
Eva Mart\'in del Pico, Josep Llu\'is Gelp\'i, Salvador Capella-Guti\'errez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23500

Identity resolution of software metadata using Large Language Models
Software is an essential component of research. However, little attention has been paid to it compared with that paid to research data. Recently, there has been an increase in efforts to acknowledge and highlight the importance of software in research activities. Structured metadata from platforms like bio.tools, Bioconductor, and Galaxy ToolShed offers valuable insights into research software in the Life Sciences. Although originally intended to support discovery and integration, this metada…

Quantum-Ready Microwave Detection with Scalable Graphene Bolometers in the Strong Localization Regime
Yu-Cheng Chang (Pico group, QTF Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland), Federico Chianese (Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden), Naveen Shetty (Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden), Johanna Huhtasaari (Department of M…

Quantum-Ready Microwave Detection with Scalable Graphene Bolometers in the Strong Localization Regime
Exploiting quantum interference of charge carriers, epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide emerges as a game-changing platform for ultra-sensitive bolometric sensing, featuring an intrinsic resistive thermometer response unmatched by any other graphene variant. By achieving low and uniform carrier densities, we have accessed a new regime of strong charge localization that dramatically reduces thermal conductance, significantly enhancing bolometer performance. Here we present scalable graph…