Author: Ryan Mitchell

Razer Edge Cyberdeck: Magnetic 3D-Printed Pocket Workstation

Razer Edge Cyberdeck: Magnetic 3D-Printed Pocket Workstation

Ryan Mitchell 13 min read
The most interesting part of this build is not the gadgetry, it is the idea that an older Android handheld can be repurposed into a compact, functional workstation with a few cheap parts and a little plastic. That is the observation ETA Prime documents while converting a Razer Edge into a palm-sized ...
$100 Spotify Desk Player: This Raspberry Pi Pico Build Is Wild

$100 Spotify Desk Player: This Raspberry Pi Pico Build Is Wild

Ryan Mitchell 11 min read
The idea is disarmingly simple. A 4-inch Pimoroni Presto display, driven by Raspberry Pi's RP2350 class Pico silicon, sits on your desk and faithfully shows the cover art, song name, and artist for whatever you are playing in Spotify. Tap the screen, and you get pause, skip, shuffle, and repeat cont ...
160-Core RISC-V GPU: 160-Core Home-Built Graphics Card

160-Core RISC-V GPU: 160-Core Home-Built Graphics Card

Ryan Mitchell 12 min read
At first glance the board looks like a mistake. Its proportions feel wrong, the component density is unsettling, and nothing about it has the tidy symmetry of consumer hardware. Up close it reads as intent: a hand-built 160-core RISC-V supercluster assembled through iteration, improvisation, and a t ...
Pocket Audio HiChord: Why Seven Buttons And A Joystick Change How Songs Are Written

Pocket Audio HiChord: Why Seven Buttons And A Joystick Change How Songs Are Written

Ryan Mitchell 7 min read
Pocket Audio HiChord arrives with a simple idea and a stubborn insistence on doing one thing well: make harmony immediate. If songwriting often stalls when you hit the keyboard and search for the right voicing, HiChord flips that workflow. Seven buttons map to the seven diatonic chords of the curren ...
Reaction Time: How A $90 DIY Skin-Mounted EMG-EMS Device Shaved Milliseconds

Reaction Time: How A $90 DIY Skin-Mounted EMG-EMS Device Shaved Milliseconds

Ryan Mitchell 9 min read
Reaction time used to read like fate: stimulus, brain, muscle, motion. That tidy chain made it easy to assume speed was largely out of reach of tinkering. Recent DIY experiments complicate that story, showing the chain can be read and nudged at electronic speed. The headline finding is simple and ...
KUXIU X40 Turbo: Pocketable 3-In-1 MagSafe Charger

KUXIU X40 Turbo: Pocketable 3-In-1 MagSafe Charger

Ryan Mitchell 8 min read
Small chargers usually promise convenience. The KUXIU X40 Turbo actually delivers it, while quietly rewriting the rules about what speed and portability look like when Apple devices share one compact puck. This pocketable 3-in-1 charger folds down to a footprint of 64 by 64 by 18 millimeter and i ...
Understanding How Smart Glasses Work In Everyday Life

Understanding How Smart Glasses Work In Everyday Life

Ryan Mitchell 8 min read
The quiet revolution of smart glasses is unfolding in workplaces, streets, and homes, threading its way into how people earn, communicate, and navigate daily routines. This technology reframes the relationship between body, environment, and digital experience. Traditional devices like smartphones ...
Logitech G Pro X2: This Mouse Doesn’t Click But Makes You A Better Gamer

Logitech G Pro X2: This Mouse Doesn’t Click But Makes You A Better Gamer

Ryan Mitchell 8 min read
Something interesting has happened to gaming mice in the last few years. On one side the hardware stalled into iterative petty wars about grams, DPI numbers, and headline polling rates. On the other side a simple human truth kept advancing quietly: reaction time gets worse with age, and that change ...
Smart Glasses Privacy Concerns And Data Collection Explained

Smart Glasses Privacy Concerns And Data Collection Explained

Ryan Mitchell 9 min read
Exploring smart glasses privacy concerns and data collection with a focus on real world impacts and user implications in everyday tech use. ...
Challenges Developers Face When Building Apps For Smart Glasses

Challenges Developers Face When Building Apps For Smart Glasses

Ryan Mitchell 7 min read
Exploring key challenges developers face when building apps for smart glasses and why designing for this platform is uniquely complex. ...
How Smart Glasses Work In Everyday Life: A Closer Look At Practical Uses

How Smart Glasses Work In Everyday Life: A Closer Look At Practical Uses

Ryan Mitchell 8 min read
Explore how smart glasses work in everyday life and discover practical ways this technology influences daily tasks and interactions. ...
Exploring Battery Life Limitations In Current Smart Glasses Technology

Exploring Battery Life Limitations In Current Smart Glasses Technology

Ryan Mitchell 8 min read
Battery life limitations in current smart glasses remain a key challenge, shaping user experience and device design in wearable tech today. ...
Privacy Risks In Next Generation Smart Home Systems

Privacy Risks In Next Generation Smart Home Systems

Ryan Mitchell 10 min read
Explore privacy risks in next generation smart home systems and how emerging technologies challenge personal data security in connected homes. ...
Can Smart Glasses Replace Smartphones In The Future

Can Smart Glasses Replace Smartphones In The Future

Ryan Mitchell 8 min read
Exploring whether smart glasses can replace smartphones by examining current technology, challenges, and real world potential for daily use. ...
OpenClaw Cost: Cut 97% With Five Practical Fixes That Save Thousands

OpenClaw Cost: Cut 97% With Five Practical Fixes That Save Thousands

Ryan Mitchell 9 min read
Expensive monthly bills are not caused by clever agents, they are caused by default behavior that quietly bills you every minute of the day. The real significance here is not swapping to a cheaper model. It is identifying where tokens, API calls, and routing decisions leak value and fixing those ...
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