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For the few people who have spent the past weeks living under a security rock, the Linux kernel has found itself the ...
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While a punch card is perhaps the lowest-density storage medium available, it has some distinct advantages. As [Bitro...
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In between the Nixie tube era of the 50s and 60s and the advent of multi-digit vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) com...
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Cotton candy is probably the best way to eat pure sugar, which makes having your very own cotton candy vending machin...
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Mixtapes used to be a way that we cultivated a personal selection of music for our own enjoyment, or to give as gifts...
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Anyone who’s worked with even a 1 mm bit knows that while a drill press is all but essential, it isn’t proof against ...
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Before the modern trifecta of video game giants came to dominate the market around two decades ago, the world was awa...
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If you are a certain age, you doubtlessly remember Heathkit. They produced a wide array of electronic kits that were ...
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Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t...
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A die filer is a useful tool to have if you find yourself filing parts on the regular. It’s basically a machine that ...
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The IKEA SKAFTSÄRV is an economical LED accent lamp, but while highly affordable it has only fixed lighting options. ...
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You probably flash new firmware on a variety of devices regularly, even though that’s rare for non-technical types. B...
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Interested in taking some wild new 3D printing features for a test drive? preFlight is free and open source slicer th...
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3D printers are almost never fast enough. [Cocoanix] had a Prusa MK3S with this very problem. He found it to be disap...
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Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We h...
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After the digital camera rose to prominence, it became a cool hobby to keep taking photos on film. It was even cooler...
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The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movemen...
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Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your syst...
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If you want to maximize the life of your lithium-ion batteries, proper storage voltage is critical. That is, don’t st...
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Three resistors in parallel: 4.7 k,Ω 22 kΩ, and 3.3 kΩ. Quick! What’s the equivalent value? You can estimate it, of c...