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Lithium batteries have become the backbone of many modern devices ranging from toothbrushes to semi trucks, so what a...
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The events of the last few years have caused many in Europe to re-evaluate their reliance on large offshore technolog...
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Although graphene gives diamond a solid run for its money when it comes to being the most useful assembly of carbon a...
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Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike...
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Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators...
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In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes f...
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A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from persistence o...
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You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you mi...
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How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inve...
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If you haven’t heard of Metal Gear, you probably haven’t played video games these last few decades. The original Meta...
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Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like th...
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We often see scientific breakthroughs in journals or other media that’s reported on as if it’s a revolutionary techno...
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The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not a...
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It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) ima...
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There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle. There’s a park i...
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Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with det...
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FPGAs used to be mysterious, expensive devices, but these days you can buy surprisingly capable boards for very littl...
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Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace ...
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The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our ...
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It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly...