Entries
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[Jankbu] needed a new computer, but had little interest in purchasing a modern laptop off the shelf. Instead, it was ...
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Circa 2015 or so, it seemed like you couldn’t move a finger without being bombarded with ads and articles about ‘smar...
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My old friend Jeff was always vocally upset that he didn’t come up with the idea of a string trimmer, commonly known ...
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[Nick Electronics] had an idea to build a stylish lamp that could transform its shape while lit. This goal was achiev...
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If you were around tech in the bad old days, magnets could be really bad news. They were fine on the fridge, no probl...
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The overall adoption and implementation of Wayland — intended as a replacement for the decades-old X11 windowing syst...
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If you’ve ever spent time in a modern BMW, you’ve probably fussed about with the goofy iDrive controller. It’s a rota...
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Mobile devices generally have one Achilles’ heel when it comes to computing power: thermal throttling. Outside of bul...
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FDM 3D printing is fairly messy on a molecular scale, with the filament being heated up to temperatures high enough t...
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Lots of music events these days hand out various glowing tchotchkes that flash and sync up with the performance. [Ton...
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In a recent video [Saša Karanović] revisits the DIY filament dryer that he gave a shot a couple of years ago. Back th...
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A potentiometer is a simple electrical device that allows resistance to be varied at will. Most everyone in the elect...
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Normally, when you think of a radio transmitter, you want the strongest signal and range. But if your radio operator ...
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Most people take the Moon for granted, not considering its slow cycle where the sun gradually illuminates different p...
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Once upon a time, computing was simple. You had files on a floppy disk. If you wanted to take them to a different com...
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We have probably all at some point had to replace a peripheral not because it is faulty, but because it is no longer ...
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Many of us have suffered the common experience of buying a great deal of (now very expensive) food, only to have it g...
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Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But ...
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Magnetic fields are all around us. We can’t really feel or see them ourselves, per se, but we can map them with the r...
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Even [maurycyz] doesn’t think it is a good idea, but it is possible to use an AVR 8-bit CPU to serve web pages. Of co...