The HP 115BR is not one of the most well-known products from Hewlett-Packard. And yet, it was remarkably important nonetheless....
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We’ve been loving the variety of entries to the 2025 One-Hertz Challenge. Many a clock has been entered, to be...
Do you find an odd comfort in the uncanny, regular intonations of a Numbers Station? Then check out ’s numbers...
What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about...
always has interesting blog posts and videos, even when we don’t understand all the German in them. The latest? Computer...
The Juno spacecraft was launched towards Jupiter in August of 2011 as part of the New Frontiers series of spacecraft,...
Many people have looked Death in the eye sockets and survived to tell others about it, but few situations speak...
After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone...
One of the categories we chose for the One Hertz Challenge is “Could Have Used a 555.” What about when...
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks...
If you used the internet at home a couple of decades or more ago, you’ll know the characteristic sound of...
For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a...
The flow battery is one of the more interesting ideas for grid energy storage – after all, how many batteries...
We did explicitly ask for projects that use a 555 timer for the One Hertz Challenge, but we weren’t expecting...
When you first get your hands on an old piece of equipment, regardless of whether it’s an old PC or...
Out on Maui, desired to keep track of local ocean conditions. The easiest way to do that was by having...
In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse,...
It’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity increases. That said, as with any market that is...
The human eye’s color perception is notoriously variable (see, for example, the famous dress), which makes it difficult to standardize...
USB-C has enabled a lot of great things, most notably removing the no less than three attempts to plug in...
Here’s something fun from our hacker : Software Defined ROMs. In this series of three videos, runs us through what...
The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you...
Lightning is a powerful force, one seemingly capable of great destruction in the right circumstances. It announces itself with a...
managed to find a professional FAA-certified flight simulator at an auction (a disassembled, partial one anyway) and wondered, what would...
Today in the submersibles department our hacker wrote in to tell us about their submarine project. This sub is made...
