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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...
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If you’re building a homelab rig, you could just use off-the-shelf hardware in standard cases and slap it all in a ra...
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Valve has always designed hacker-friendly hardware, and in that spirit, [NaKyle Wright] released Inkterface, a design...
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We all know the e-ink persistent displays, as they’re cheap and plentiful enough to have become ubiquitous in applica...
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Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s s...
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Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for. I...
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A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how abou...
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Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and th...
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For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap the...
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At one point in time web rings were one of the best ways to find content on the World Wide Web — involving not just a...
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Once upon a time, there was a bit of a fad for fingerprint authentication in laptops and desktop computers. It has lo...
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Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have...
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Humans are odd creatures, and no two are exactly alike, which is likely why so many different methods exist for track...
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If you asked us to build you a KVM last week, we’d likely have reached for a Raspberry Pi. Now, thanks to [JonathanRo...
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For some reason there’s heated debate around the topic of whether high current carrying wiring ought to use crimped o...
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Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams were in a retro mood this week. There was a new ‘486 computer, a new mecha...
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When we think of 1960s synthesizers it’s usual to imagine instruments with vast arrays of controls and patch cables f...
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Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than o...
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Like so many large and popular open source projects these days, the Godot game engine struggles with an influx of pul...