What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful...
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Like many of us, has things he just can’t stop buying. In his case, it is portable satellite dishes. You’ve...
Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or...
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was used from 1984 to 1987 for...
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler made groundbreaking contributions to physics, and has a fantastic writeup about the man. He was undeniably...
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer,...
Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too...
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty...
It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper...
Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a cat’s household — like feeding...
As we get older, our eyes get worse. That’s just a fact of life. It is a rite of passage...
If you are involved in any sort of radio transmission, you probably have at least heard of SWR or standing...
For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include...
Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient...
The Braun TS2 radio was a state-of-the art tube set in 1956. Today it still looks great, but unsurprisingly, the...
It’s fairly insignificant in the scheme of things, and there’s no hardware as yet for us to look at, but...
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like this started at least as...
There are a great many organizations out there, all with their own intentions—some selfish, some selfless, some that land somewhere...
As if there weren’t enough worrying global news stories already, today the British press and media have been full of...
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time...
Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe...
Sometimes those moments arise when a new device comes on the market and hardware hackers immediately take to it. Over...
Although battery fires in electric cars and two-wheeled vehicles are not a common phenomenon, they are notoriously hard to put...
What do you get when you cross WiFi and LoRa? Researchers in China have been doing this, and they call...
The International Space Station (ISS) might not be breaking news, but this February, National Geographic released a documentary that dives...
