Entries
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[Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To ...
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For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control c...
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Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and i...
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Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that...
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If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead...
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As strong and light as carbon fiber-epoxy composites are, the same can’t always be said of carbon-fiber reinforced 3D...
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If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple a...
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Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me some...
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In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the Frenc...
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Trains and the railways they run on are a great way to move lots of stuff, or lots of people, a long way. Steel wheel...
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Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for ...
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[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project be...
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The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to star...
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In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavi...
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Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instea...
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Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a ...
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[David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand ove...
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Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our fa...
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Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever av...
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You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watchin...