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An old algebra teacher used to say, “You have to take what you know and use it to get what you don’t know.” You might...
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Recently [Bits und Bolts] stumbled over a pair of Dragon 3000 branded 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in his unfixed cards pile, ...
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Unlike on Mars where for decades we have had dozens of orbital and ground-based platforms zipping and scurrying about...
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If you work with radio, the chances are that before too long you’ll be winding an inductor. At radio frequencies thes...
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The weather is warming up, and for many of us that means more time spent working out in the yard. You probably won’t ...
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The world of software has seen many paradigms come and go, all of which were supposed to revolutionize its developmen...
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Although crude oil contains a vast diversity of hydrocarbons, a comparatively small number of these make up the bulk ...
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A common complaint about the rise of commercial AI services is that they are power-hungry and thus damage the environ...
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[Dennis] is on YouTube with his channel “Made By Dennis,” but for the record he is a maker, not a V-tuber. On the oth...
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A buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, is typically a fullerene consisting of sixty carbon atoms (C60) ar...
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No, we’re not talking about cultural appropriation of Japan’s most famous form of short poem–this is the other Haiku,...
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As straightforward as the concept of taking battery packs out of an old electric or hybrid car and reusing them for h...
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This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution w...
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If you look around your environment, you can probably pick off quite a few things that you’ve made, at least if you’v...
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When the Artemis lunar program was first conceived, the third mission would have seen astronauts step foot on the Moo...
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If you have a TV and a Pi, you have the workings of a media center, and you’re not exactly short on options for softw...
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At various times in the history of desktop computing, the market has stubbornly refused to follow the path dictated f...
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The custom APU at the core of Sony’s PlayStation 5 hasn’t just been quietly powering these game consoles, but also ma...
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If you are an American of a certain age, you know the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, beating the...
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When it comes to robots, few are as iconic as Robby. [Ogrinz Labs] has wanted to build one and even examined a real o...