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Moon missions are hot again for the first bit since the space race. While the previous period had us land on the big ...
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A crew lives on a station in a hostile environment. Leaving that environment requires oxygen tanks and specialized ge...
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After some water intrusion apparently killed one of [electronupdate]’s Amazon Blink Gen 3 cameras he took this opport...
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Of all the remote-control vehicles one can build, a submarine is possibly the hardest: if something goes wrong with a...
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Friends, there will likely come a time in your life when you have trouble sleeping. When this happens, it may behoove...
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Although the number of uses for a 2009-era Mac Mini aren’t very long, using them to run new-and-upcoming operating sy...
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At this point, we’ll assume you already know that four humans took a sightseeing trip around the Moon and made their ...
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Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but [Scott Baker] obviously disagrees. He has...
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Self-similar images are rather common, which are images in which the same image is repeated on a smaller scale somewh...
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If you started with computers early enough, you’ll remember the importance of the RAMdisk concept: without a hard dri...
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A while back [Jack] came across a Taito arcade game that neither he nor any of his mates recognized. The game was Adv...
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It is an old trope in submarine movies. A sonar operator strains to hear things in the ocean but dares not “ping” for...
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Although vapor-compression refrigeration is a simple concept, there are still a lot of details in the implementation ...
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Kiki bills itself as the “array programming system of unknown origin.” We thought it reminded us of APL which, all by...
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There’s a long history of devices originally used for communication being made into computers, with relay switching c...
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Although we can already buy commercial transceiver solutions that allow us to use PCIe devices like GPUs outside of a...
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You probably don’t think about it much, but your PC probably has a TPM or Trusted Platform Module. Windows 11 require...
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Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed op...
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Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s li...
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With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on i...