Entries
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If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability a...
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The Attack Shark is a modern keyboard with fancy magnetic keyswitches, macros, configurable blinky LEDs, and more. Th...
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There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or pa...
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With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-license...
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At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources...
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With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that...
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Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional pa...
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After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped ...
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One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee7...
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For how useful USB thumb drives are for quickly toting around and copying files from one computer to another, they ca...
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Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional...
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There are infinite varieties of cyberdeck you could make, each with their own inspirations. Today, [RadioactiveArtist...
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Radios were once big complicated appliances, full of warm valves and paper-wrapped capacitors, all humming and glowin...
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When the Internet first started gaining mainstream popularity in the late 90s, many optimists claimed that it would b...
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A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short per...
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When you hear the word TV, you probably think of a big LED screen, maybe even the old CRT TVs, but in either case it’...
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Optical cavities – two mirrors arranged to reflect light multiple times between them – form the basis of lasers and c...
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At a time when so-called “artificial intelligence” seems inescapable, we were encouraged to see news that Amazon will...
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After previously using the fermenting of sugar to obtain ethanol fuel, [Hyperspace Pirate] figured that it’d be a was...
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We’ve all done it before: a simple project that escalated to the point of extreme overengineering. But what’s less co...