happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from...
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If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race...
Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency was...
It’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously...
found an old childhood friend in a closet: a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic kit. Along with , he put it...
Quite a few in our community make a bit of cash on the side by selling our creations, and it’s...
Everyone talks about the weather. This is doubly true for sailors, where bad weather could mean a very bad day....
If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, etymologically suggesting something...
Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic...
If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips...
Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting...
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning...
Your desk or bench is a work area, so why not make it look the part? That’s the idea behind...
FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP,...
We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or...
Avian Visitors is a lovely project by that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds...
Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might...
You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to...
took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected...
If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather...
Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack...
has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want...
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have...
If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the...
“You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut. But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion....
