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In the US, among other places, housing costs are skyrocketing. It can sometimes be difficult to get a feel for the sc...
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Nuclear power really hit its stride in the 1950s. In the post-war period, there was a rush to develop peaceful uses f...
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Coaxing a DVI signal out of a microcontroller to drive a DVI or HDMI screen has been possible for a while now, but li...
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In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed ...
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Much of science is performed through inference, with the readings on instruments, a flash of light in heavy water, or...
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Of the popular 1980s 8-bit computers, it’s fair to say that Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum punched above its weight. Sir Cliv...
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Photodetectors come in a wide variety of constructions and materials, with the Cu2O-based photodetector that [Mad Sci...
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Some sad news to start this week off — after 52 years in business, Sherline has announced they are winding down their...
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TEMPEST attacks are often the most effective way to break air-gapped security: rather than directly accessing a compu...
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Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how m...
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When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famo...
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For his own reasons, [Jose Luis Monteiro] (aka [emsyscode]) decided he needed to drive the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car...
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It’s an unfortunate side effect of proximity to a large transmitter that the received signal can overload a receiver’...
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There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technolog...
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Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a...
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The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split se...
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A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but i...
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This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-sour...
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Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic ...
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Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbru...