Hardware FYI is a weekly briefing for engineers, founders and investors building physical products. Its recent issues offer practical guidance on medical device prototyping, reverse-engineering parts without drawings, and R&D software that keeps design and documentation in sync.
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Sascha Corti's personal blog documents his experiments with a subdermal VivoKey Apex Flex implant, covering how he moved OpenPGP keys onto it and used them for SSH login via GnuPG on macOS. Posts also weigh up when open-weight AI models are worth running instead of frontier ones.
a16z's newsletter covers venture investing and technology trends, with recent issues on AI-driven hardware design, robotics dexterity and investments, and agentic commerce data. Readers get firm perspectives on where AI meets the physical world and how agents interact with online retail.
Joe Landman's personal blog mixes long-form notes on HPC, AI and home-lab hardware with reflections on technology, economics and politics. Readers get candid troubleshooting write-ups, hardware and software trade-off analysis, and occasional updates on the blog itself.
Wiki4What publishes first-principles field guides that turn emerging technology ideas into practical, carefully caveated builds, such as using a USB radio receiver or an ESP32 for sensing. It also includes reflective pieces linking Buddhist philosophy to everyday work and life.
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