Entries
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Gravity batteries aren’t exactly a new idea. You can store energy by lifting something heavy, converting kinetic ener...
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Computing goes hand-in-hand with how to structure and access data, and this internal training film from IBM regarding...
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Glass-based substrates are slowly beginning to push out organic substrates commonly used in PCBs due to often superio...
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There are many ways you can implement an Intel i386 CPU on an FPGA, with the use of original microcode probably being...
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Some of you may know there’s a version of UNIX for the Commodore Amiga, aptly called Amiga Unix or AMIX. There is an ...
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Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’...
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There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter t...
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Processor design over the last few decades has moved toward RISC processors that aim to implement a few simple operat...
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A twenty-sided die (d20) is a common thing in tabletop gaming, and [kati]’s slightly sentient d20 is a PCB that not o...
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Recently cheapo video walkie-talkies popped up on everyone’s favorite online retailers, which naturally lured in the ...
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With so many online messaging services to choose from it’s almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has faded i...
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If your first-generation Chromecast was acting a little wonky this week, don’t worry. Contrary to fears online, the 2...
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Storage is expensive these days, whether you’re looking at the prices of spinning rust or magic little sticks of sili...
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[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCI...
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[Ken Shirriff] does some of the most interesting teardowns. This time, he’s looking at a French-built minicomputer ca...
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Some people who have a hankering to run GEM/TOS applications might just fire up an emulator, or maybe coax an old Mot...
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Filtering sawdust out of an airflow is easy until you try to do it with cyclone separation, but the obvious appeal he...
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Whether you’re using granules or filament, FDM printing relies heavily on a consistent flowrate of the extruder. This...
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PCBs are traditionally designed with traces laid out to support a circuit full of electronic components. However, the...
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Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer lai...