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From Silence to Subtitles: A Raspberry Pi That Listens So You Don’t Have To

In a recent post on Reddit, u/andymassey using a Raspberry Pi, created a captioning tool that auto-transcribes phone calls and room conversations for their deaf father! It tackles a realy, everyday problem using an elegant bit of maker ingenuity. Practical, thoughtful and quietly impressive. What They Built (And Why I […]

2026-02-26

We Built a Game Controller on a Breadboard (and Steam Was Not Impressed)

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With rising costs in all forms of hardware due to some current shortages we’ve decided to lean into our maker habits and add some challenges to or daily lives with a custom functional gaming controller! Part electronics, part firmware, and part figuring out how modern PCs expect controllers to behave. […]