Entries
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Steam power is a staple of the steampunk aesthetic, thermodynamics, and a checkpoint for the budding mechanical engin...
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It’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously human-shaped ...
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[The Modern Rouge] found an old childhood friend in a closet: a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic kit. Along with [Josh...
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A friend from my old hackerspace was in grad school for electrical engineering. He had a professor who would ask, whe...
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Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency ...
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If there’s an engineer’s equivalent to those YouTube ASMR videos, then perhaps it comes in a good repair or servicing...
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Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-gene...
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After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline...
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Doing anything on a frozen lake can carries some amount of risk. Nevertheless, every year events ranging from car rac...
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Any parent with a baby and deep pockets– or friends with deep pockets– will probably sing the praises of the BabyBjor...
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These days, most of us interface with our computing devices in the same old-fashioned ways—via keyboards, mice, and t...
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It’s still hot on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kristina has a new secret weapon for staying cool without making no...
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[Stephen] had an interesting piece of hardware at home—namely, a Flume water monitor. It’s a smart device which repor...
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After a multi-year hiatus, the venerable BugTraq mailing list is back! For decades, BugTraq was the place where vulne...
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In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website th...
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If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Ha...
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[Epictronics] happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept mac...
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While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to...
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The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras a...
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Most hackers and makers end up with a cheap pair of calipers in the toolbox at some point or another. [DiodeGoneWild]...