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Get shared CAD, firmware, and a simple HTML interface for Sesame, helping you customize looks, motions, and power without guesswork.

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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I programmed it with ESPHome, and it only took a few hours from start to finish.

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