blinry
blinry.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2022
blinry, a German hacker and maker, writes up personal projects such as software defined radio, tiny Linux builds, DIY soft drinks and electronics.
What HN saysHN commenters like the playful projects, recalling the DIY soft drinks post, the mouse cursor theme and the compass belt, which sparked talk of new senses.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)2 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2024 · 167 comments on HN
- 2Building a Tiny Linux from Scratch2 people · 38 points · first shared 2025 · 7 comments on HN
- 3Building 15-year-old software with Nix2 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4How to build a circular LCD clock2 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 5How to draw your own mouse cursor theme2 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6DIY Soft Drinks2 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 7Compass belt2 people · first shared 2024
- 8Crossing the USA by Train1 people · 355 points · first shared 2024 · 427 comments on HN
- 9Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend1 people · 139 points · first shared 2022 · 23 comments on HN
- 10“I remade the first level of Doom using JavaScript and 64 sliders”1 people · 59 points · first shared 2022 · 15 comments on HN
- 11My best tricks from 13 years of losing weight1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 13A Tour of Oodi1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 14Jujutsu Workshop1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15Exploring Firefox DevTools1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
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comment0r · 2026-07-29
I immediately recognized the avatar of this person. They are the one with the DIY soft drinks which has been posted on HN before: https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/
blinry · 2026-07-29
Glad you like it! :) I uploaded it here: http://files.blinry.org/emoji.tar.gz
You can find installation instructions in the script of last year's workshop: https://blinry.org/cursor-workshop/
yetihehe · 2024-11-09
Maybe it's all about encoding and it IS pretty standard? Brain can decode vision through tongue nerves [1] as long as it looks like vision data and is correlated with head movements. There were experiments with other senses sent through different means or whole new sense (magnetic [2] and echolocation [3]). Looks like brain is so flexible, that anything resembling sensible information will be decoded.
[1] https://news.wisc.edu/a-taste-of-vision-device-translates-from-camera-…
[2] https://blinry.org/compass-belt/
[3] https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/echolocation-in-people/
smokel · 2024-06-02
I once saw a documentary on a haptic compass, built from some rumble packs. It allowed people to improve their way-finding skills, and if I recall correctly, people accustomed to the idea of having this extra sense after about a week or so.
I can’t easily find the original research (somewhere in the 1990s), but several hackers and artists have rebuilt or rediscovered the idea.
See for example https://blinry.org/compass-belt/
082349872349872 · 2024-03-17
You all may appreciate (a short browse away from TFA): Antragsformular für den Passierschein A38
https://blinry.org/passierschein-a38/
jmou · 2022-08-05
blinry used this idea as a game concept! https://blinry.org/you-shall-not-pass/