Entries
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Most musical organs use air as their working fluid, but there’s nothing in the rule book that says they have to. Call...
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It’s rather awkward when you buy a piece of hardware like a sketchy router to make a video about its hidden admin pas...
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For decades now, companies like Michelin have been teasing us with futuristic-looking automobile tires that don’t use...
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After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even thoug...
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We’ve always taken a certain childlike joy in seeing tiny things made big, and big things tiny. Evidently [Uncle Stem...
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This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the ...
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It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf...
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If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, e...
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Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way a...
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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 ...