Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
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Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on...
It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put...
In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the...
It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due...
On the podcast, and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of...
The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor,...
Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using...
The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was...
We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually...
Phased-array radars are great for all sorts of things, whether you’re doing advanced radio research or piloting a fifth-generation combat...
There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking....
NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way. Liftoff!...
After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, decided to do the...
Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power...
There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general...
With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects...
Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer recreated a...
Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers,...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is tasked with regulating both wired and wireless communications, which also includes a national...
They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they...
For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips...
It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than...
The timer mechanism of the Vend-o-Vision. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube) There was a time before portable TVs and personal media...
For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such...
