Entries
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Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top...
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Oh, the farming lifestyle…living off the land, fending for yourself. But who’s got time for all that? For the modern ...
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The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission...
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Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining a...
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The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was ...
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Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a ...
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The 19th century was an absolutely electrifying era, including in a literal sense. Although the phenomenon of electri...
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While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for s...
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Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have ...
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Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed application...
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Blood pressure is one of the so-called “vital signs” that medical practitioners use to determine the basic state of a...
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What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected g...
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[BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the ass...
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Nobody wants to breathe solder fumes; that’s a given. For most of us, an industrial-looking fan-and-filter made in Ch...
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People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering ...
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Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital ...
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Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to i...
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Generally, LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are quite safe and stable, but it’s still possible for something to go wrong, even...
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When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion o...
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In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk t...