The Autodidacts

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The Autodidacts

Three autodidact brothers who enjoy playing music, writing, and tinkering with computers, electronics, and themselves.

Canada http://www.autodidacts.io The Autodidacts The Autodidacts The Autodidacts has published 15 posts:

Autodidacts Newsletter #21

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Autodidacts Newsletter #21

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Autodidacts Newsletter #19

For the past year or more, one of the Autodidacts has been thinking way too much about the philosophy of profanity —  and has just finished a somewhat excessive exploration of the topic. Behold, … »

#100DaysToOffload

  1. I’m trying #100DaysToOffload
  2. Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price
  3. Filtering RSS feeds by tag
  4. An unsolved question in sleep science
  5. A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit
  6. Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support
  7. Sleep is a continuum
  8. Wallabag wins, despite its flaws
  9. Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing
  10. Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way
  11. Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API
  12. How to Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations to a New Device
  13. What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam?
  14. A Fish shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files
  15. Split Testing in ~50 lines of JavaScript
  16. Finally, an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works
  17. And then there’s Readeck
  18. Human beings are waterproof
  19. The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols
  20. I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I’m making one

Autodidacts Newsletter #18

To get the year off on the right foot, we have a newsletter exclusively featuring brief philosophical essays on living well. In-depth, nerdy essays & technical articles will resume in the next issue. … »

Autodidacts Newsletter #17

A mere month after our last newsletter, we have three new posts of varying excellent quality for you. We have an in-depth article about ethical affiliate marketing (we tried to avoid doing too … »

Autodidacts Newsletter #16

This newsletter might look a bit different: we have migrated our blog & newsletter platform into the 21st century. We hope it still works. We have some new handcrafted blogposts for you. First … »

Autodidacts Newsletter #16

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Autodidacts Newsletter #16

This newsletter might look a bit different: we have migrated our blog & newsletter platform into the 21st century. We hope it still works. We have some new handcrafted blogposts for you. First … »

Autodidacts Newsletter #16

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Introducing BCIBox v2: The Open-Source OpenBCI Enclosure, Reëngineered

Introducing BCIBox v2: The Open-Source OpenBCI Enclosure, Reëngineered

We are delighted to announce that the BCIBox open-source OpenBCI enclosure is back by popular demand, completely redesigned to be fully compatible with OpenBCI Cyton, Ganglion, WiFi shield, and Daisy Module! Video Introduction … »

Introducing: BCIBox, an open source enclosure for the OpenBCI

Introducing: BCIBox, an open source enclosure for the OpenBCI

The OpenBCI is a pleasantly affordable, refreshingly open source biosignal amplifier with high-quality multi-channel output, an excellent user community, and a hackable design that have made it a go-to widget for neuro-geeks from … »

How to Start a Project: An Infocomic

How to Start a Project: An Infocomic

Here at the autodidacts we have a sophisticated workflow for turning our project ideas into reality. It’s so arcane it deserves its own branch of historiography, but we settled for an infographic: … »

Neurotech Hardware Roundup 2016

Neurotech Hardware Roundup 2016

These are exciting times for citizen neuroscientists. In the last few years, all kinds of new EEG systems have appeared. When we first started looking into low-cost EEG hardware, we only found a … »

Do Binaural Beats Really Affect Brainwaves?

Do Binaural Beats Really Affect Brainwaves?

Can you use audio recordings to entrain your brainwaves, alter your consciousness, and “meditate deeper than a zen monk”? In this post we set out to shed light on that question with a … »

Smart Rat Trap Project in Make Magazine

Smart Rat Trap Project in Make Magazine

Issue 43 of Make Magazine features a build tutorial of our Smart Rat Trap project. It was great working with Keith Hammond and the team at Make getting the project in print! You … »