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Given all the incredible technology developed or improved during the Apollo program, it’s impossible to pick out just one piece of hardware that made humanity’s first crewed landing on ...
Computed Axial Lithography (CAL) is a lighting-fast form of volumetric 3D printing that holds incredible promise for the future, and [The Action Lab] filmed it in action at a Berkeley team’s ...
An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...
In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...
Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start ...
We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction ...
Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...
Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.
Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...
Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers ...
For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next ...
Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed ...