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Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry i...
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Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your...
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Among so many other technological advances, the Cold War saw the advent of the ballistic missile submarine. The conce...
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In the long ago, pre-internet days when your clock project wasn’t an ESP32 getting its timing via NTP over WiFi, it w...
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While most of us don’t design aircraft or racing cars, it’s likely that we’re still fascinated by some of the aerodyn...
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There is a drawing of a bicycle in one of Leonarda DaVinci‘s sketchbooks– except it wasn’t drawn by DaVinci, and date...
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In some parts of the world it’s common for cell service providers to sell new phones at a price significantly below m...
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We’ve covered etch-a-sketch robots before, but usually they’re not quite as fast as [Every Flavor of Robot]’s “video”...
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The Honeywell X2S Smart Thermostat is a Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat that is meant to integrate with your typical ‘smart ...
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The Commodore 64 has, by modern standards, the interesting power requirement of needing both 5 VDC and 9 VAC. Traditi...
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There’s a line in a [Weird Al] (no relation) song that says, “I upgrade my system at least twice a day…” I know how t...
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Zinc air batteries have been a familiar sight for decades in the world of photography, where they provided an environ...
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The 2000s was a decade of great change in the computer industry. The world had grown accustomed to corruptible floppy...
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After the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations in 2022, it soon made a tantalizing discovery in the for...
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Gravity batteries aren’t exactly a new idea. You can store energy by lifting something heavy, converting kinetic ener...
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Computing goes hand-in-hand with how to structure and access data, and this internal training film from IBM regarding...
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Glass-based substrates are slowly beginning to push out organic substrates commonly used in PCBs due to often superio...
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There are many ways you can implement an Intel i386 CPU on an FPGA, with the use of original microcode probably being...
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Some of you may know there’s a version of UNIX for the Commodore Amiga, aptly called Amiga Unix or AMIX. There is an ...
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Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’...