A hobbyist engineer repurposed leftover flexible LED filaments to build a custom light-up t-shirt for a neon-themed work event announced with less than a week's notice. The project combined an ESP32 controller, a USB battery bank, boost converters and constant-current LED drivers with hand-sewn filament strips stabilized by a stiff fabric backing. The build process included early tests to attach and shape the filaments on cotton fabric without bunching.
scottbezek.blogspot.com
· 2026-10-08
Gigaphoton has launched a new neon gas recycling system called hTGM for its ArF excimer lasers, achieving a 50% recovery rate in testing. The development aims to address neon shortages impacting the semiconductor industry, which previously relied heavily on Ukrainian exports before disruptions in 2022. The system's efficiency could improve further with configuration adjustments, potentially reducing material costs and supply chain dependence.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-06
The SCP Foundation, the collaborative horror fiction project, has entered a creative partnership with film studio Neon to produce a second anthology film based on its stories. The announcement follows an earlier unofficial SCP anthology film, with this new project described as an officially sanctioned effort.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-01
Neon, distributor of Parasite and Anora, announced an anthology film based on the SCP Foundation's collaborative horror fiction community. Unlike A24's recent V/H/S-branded SCP project, Neon contacted the SCP Wiki admin team beforehand and committed to releasing the film under the required Creative Commons ShareAlike license. The project is expected to hit theaters next year and will feature work from emerging filmmakers within the SCP community, though it won't be an official or compensated SCP production.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-01
Neon revealed plans for its own SCP Foundation movie, set for theatrical release in 2027, after reaching out to the SCP Wiki team and pledging to release the film under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. This follows backlash against A24, which had announced its own SCP project without contacting the wiki or committing to that licensing requirement. The SCP Foundation Wiki admin team issued a statement praising Neon's communication and adherence to the license's terms.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-30
Go 1.26 introduced architecture-specific SIMD APIs for amd64, and Go 1.27 extends this with support for arm64 (NEON) and wasm. Go 1.27 also adds an experimental, platform-agnostic 'simd' package modeled loosely on the C++ Highway library, letting developers write vector code once that runs across AVX, AVX2, AVX512, NEON, and wasm SIMD instructions, with software emulation on unsupported platforms.
go.dev
· 2026-09-25
The gearhash crate, used for content-defined chunking via the GEAR rolling hash, has been updated to version 0.1.4 with a new NEON-based backend for ARM64 processors. The change is automatically selected on aarch64 systems and remains backwards compatible, delivering roughly double the throughput at typical chunk sizes without requiring any code changes from users.
sam.dev
· 2026-09-15
A developer released Laser Graffiti, a Show HN project that pairs a webcam and projector so anyone can draw on a wall using a handheld laser pointer. The software tracks the laser dot and projects effects like glowing neon trails, dripping ink, or spinning 3D shapes over the strokes in real time. The creator says the project was inspired by an older video of artists laser-tagging buildings with projectors.
laser.consti.de
· 2026-08-29
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