Computer History Museum launches a digital portal to its collection

The Computer History Museum (CHM), a leader in decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity—announced the launch of OpenCHM, a new digital portal providing global access to its unparalleled collection.

“OpenCHM is designed to inspire discovery, spark curiosity, and make the stories of the digital age more accessible to everyone, everywhere,” said CHM President and CEO Marc Etkind. “We’re unlocking the collection for new audiences to explore.”

“We were excited by the prospect of CHM opening up their unique collections to broader audiences, from scholars and teachers to students and the public. The balance of the engaging, curated narratives by CHM’s own historians and field experts along with the tools and capabilities to explore one’s own interests makes the platform truly compelling. The Moore Foundation also values the OpenCHM team’s commitment to thoughtful design and documentation, which we hope will inspire and enable other organizations to share their collections more openly.”—Janet Coffey, Program Director, Science, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

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Open-source Isometric City Building Simulation Games #IsoCity

 

If you love city planning and are looking for MORE distractions from work IsoCity might be for you. IsoCity and IsoCoaster are games that call back to classics like SimCity and they can be played in browser. An open source project from Andrew Milich on GitHub

 

IsoCity – City builder with trains, planes, cars, and pedestrians

 

• Isometric Rendering Engine: Custom-built rendering system using HTML5 Canvas (CanvasIsometricGrid) capable of handling complex depth sorting, layer management, and both image and drawn sprites.
• Dynamic Simulation:
  • Traffic System: Autonomous vehicles including cars, trains, and aircraft (planes/seaplanes).
  • Pedestrian System: Pathfinding and crowd simulation for city inhabitants.
  • Economy & Resources: Resource management, zoning (Residential, Commercial, Industrial), and city growth logic.
• Interactive Grid: Tile-based placement system for buildings, roads, parks, and utilities.
• State Management: Save/Load functionality for multiple cities.
• Responsive Design: Mobile-friendly interface with specialized touch controls and toolbars.

IsoCoaster – Build theme parks with roller coasters, rides, and guests

 

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Bobsled – Science of the Winter Olympics

National Science Foundation News shared this video on Youtube 15 years ago!

The winter games in Vancouver provide a chance for the United States’ four-man bobsled team to win its first gold medal in more than 60 years. And with the help of Paul Doherty, senior scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Deborah King, associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences at Ithaca College, physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University, and bobsled designer Bob Cuneo, the team explains how they hope to accomplish this feat.

NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding.

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Portable Decibel Meter

Put your Pi Pico to use and measure some sounds with Shahbaz Hashmi Ansari’s Portable Decibel Meter instructable.

I build a portable Decibel Meter using Raspberry Pi Pico and a high-precision INMP441 I2S MEMS microphone. The device measures real-time sound levels, displays them on an OLED screen, and runs completely standalone with a battery-powered design.

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Use your Mac to Correct your Posture

 

There are countless exercise options and wearable devices to help prevent “tech neck.” The term used to described prolonged poor posture from being hunched over a keyboard. This is the first solution I’ve seen that turns your computer’s camera into the posture police. When you start to slouch the screen becomes unreadable.

Posturr comes from tldev on GitHub:

Posturr uses your Mac’s camera and Apple’s Vision framework to monitor your posture in real-time. When it detects that you’re slouching, it progressively blurs your screen to remind you to sit up straight. Maintain good posture, and the blur clears instantly.

Features

Real-time posture detection – Uses Apple’s Vision framework for body pose and face tracking

Progressive screen blur – Gentle visual reminder that intensifies with worse posture

Menu bar controls – Easy access to settings, calibration, and status from the menu bar

Multi-display support – Works across all connected monitors

Privacy-focused – All processing happens locally on your Mac

Lightweight – Runs as a background app with minimal resource usage

No account required – No signup, no cloud, no tracking

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How We Drive a Car at −71°C (−95°F) | Yakutia, Siberia

With a winter storm warning in effect for NY this video puts some things in perspective. Kiun B shared this video on Youtube!

Driving a car in the coldest inhabited place on Earth – is a daunting task. With temperatures dropping as low as -71°C, an unprotected car freezes within minutes.

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Less Cloud, More Clouds

The Stock Pot is non a journey to create a perfect smart home. In this video they aim to remove cloud based third party weather services and obtain their own weather data. It turned out to be a little more complicated than buying an off the shelf weather station. Checkout the full video below!

My ‘inside the house’ data is pretty solid, thanks to my EP1’s and EP Pro’s, but my outdoor data was lacking.

Relying on internet-based weather services works… until it doesn’t. Forecasts aren’t local, updates can lag, and they introduce a cloud dependency I’d rather avoid. I wanted real, hyper local weather data, measured at my house, and available entirely offline inside Home Assistant.

That kicked off the search for a home weather station that could integrate locally, without sending my data off to someone else’s servers.

See the full details from the Blog

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