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The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the most (in)famous entries. Designed from the ground up to be as cheap ...
Detecting a signal pulse is usually basic electronics, but you start to find more complications when you need to time the ...
Of all FDM filament types, flexible ones such as TPU invite a whole new way of thinking, as well as applications. Case in ...
We often think of analog computing as a relic of the past, room-sized monstrosities filled with vacuum tubes doing their best ...
In the driving simulator community, setups can quickly grow ever more complicated and expensive, all in the quest for fidelity. For [CNCDan], rather than buy pedals off the shelf, he opted to ...
If you have seen Star Wars, you know what is being referenced here. Holochess appeared as a diversion built into the Millennium Falcon in the very first movie, way back in 1977. While not quite as ...
It might seem strange to people like us, but normal people hate wires. Really hate wires. A lot. So it makes sense that with ...
Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these days, most of us go straight to “hackaday.com” without bothering with ...
Imagine a bare-bones electric pickup: it’s the size of an old Hilux, it seats two, and the bed fits a full sheet of plywood.
Researchers from the USA and India have proposed that Floquet Majorana fermions may improve quantum computing by controlling ...
Dan Maloney and I were talking on the podcast about his memories of the old electronics magazines, and how they had some ...
An ongoing refrain with modern movies is “Why is all of this CG?”– sometimes, it seems like practical effects are simultaneously a dying art, while at the same time modern ...