Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@social.cleverlibre.org

"Epic Games has been ordered to pay $245 million to Fortnite players after using 'dark patterns' to trick them into making unintentional purchases and letting children do so without involvement from a parent"

https://www.gamesradar.com/fortnite-developer-ordered-to-pay-dollar245-million-to-players-tricked-into-making-unwanted-purchases/

"Bucky Fuller’s most complex invention may have been himself" (Buckyball)

https://www.archdaily.com/998130/bucky-fullers-most-complex-invention-may-have-been-himself?ad_campaign=normal-tag

SparkFun's #LoRa Serial Kit connects any TTL Serial Devices over-the-air — Up to 9 miles apart

https://www.hackster.io/news/sparkfun-s-loraserial-kit-connects-any-ttl-serial-devices-over-the-air-up-to-nine-miles-apart-cc8fa3c4e849

X Macro: Historic C Preprocessor hack

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/the-x-macro-a-historic-preprocessor-hack/

#meWatch HDCP fails whenever I connect a monitor over Thunderbolt ... strange 🤔

Here's how U-Boot Bootloader powers on #PinePhone's USB Controller ... We'll do the same for Apache #NuttX RTOS

Source: https://github.com/lupyuen/pinephone-nuttx-usb#power-on-the-usb-controller

#RustLang on #STM32 F4: UART Communication

https://apollolabsblog.hashnode.dev/stm32f4-embedded-rust-at-the-pac-uart-communication

History of Visual Basic

https://retool.com/visual-basic/

Upgrading Chumby's #Linux kernel: Reboot / poweroff

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/03/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-4-reboot-poweroff/

D-Link Router: Emulating firmware and hacking hardware

https://www.greynoise.io/blog/debugging-d-link-emulating-firmware-and-hacking-hardware

Medical Residents are in an uproar over the ethics of "The Last of Us" finale

https://time.com/6263398/the-last-of-us-finale-medical-ethics/

#Embedded World 2023: MPUs, MCUs, SoCs and #RISCV

https://www.electronicproducts.com/embedded-world-2023-mpus-mcus-socs-and-risc-v/

Taking apart IKEA’s latest Air Quality Sensor VINDSTYRKA

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/taking-apart-ikeas-latest-air-quality-sensor/

Home Assistant in 2023: Simpler and more capable

https://staceyoniot.com/taking-a-look-at-home-assistant-in-2023-simpler-and-more-capable/

7-inch MNT Reform Pocket laptop starts at $899, ships in October (NXP i.MX8M Plus)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/all-open-source-7-inch-mnt-reform-laptop-starts-at-899-ships-in-october/

"Wemo, Belkin’s smart home company, has paused development of #Matter smart home devices"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23641930/belkin-matter-wemo-smart-home

"Midjourney's AI can now do hands correctly"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/ai-imager-midjourney-v5-stuns-with-photorealistic-images-and-5-fingered-hands/

"Meadow is built on #NuttX ... that can run full .NET applications on low-energy microcontrollers (MCUs) at native speed using their proprietary embedded .NET runtime"

https://blog.wildernesslabs.co/wilderness-labs-raises-3-3mm-seed-round/