Any Old TV Can Be A Clock With Arduino
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Any Old TV Can Be A Clock With Arduino
If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog broadcasters left in the worl...
Dan Maloney recounts the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965.
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The Great Northeast Blackout Of 1965
At 5:20 PM on November 9, 1965, the Tuesday rush hour was in full bloom outside the studios of WABC in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The drive...
US Patent Changes Promise Severe Consequences
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US Patent Changes Promise Severe Consequences
When someone creates a US patent, they go through a review process to stop the most blatant copies from previous patents or pre-existing work. Afte...
Designing PLA to Hold Over a Metric Ton
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Designing PLA To Hold Over A Metric Ton
There’s never been such a thing as being β€œtoo competitive” when it comes to competition. This is something that [Tom Stanton] from “Tim...
Hydrofoil Bikes Are Harder To Build Than You Think
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Hydrofoil Bikes Are Harder To Build Than You Think
Hydrofoils are perhaps best known for their application on boring ferries and scary boats that go too fast. However, as [RCLifeOn] demonstrates, yo...
One-Way Data Extraction For Logging On Airgapped Systems
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One-Way Data Extraction For Logging On Airgapped Systems
If you want to protect a system from being hacked, a great way to do that is with an airgap. This term specifically refers to keeping a system off ...
Stack n’ Rack Your Hardware With the HomeRacker Project
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Stack N’ Rack Your Hardware With The HomeRacker Project
Things are cooler when rack-mounted, and [KellerLab] aims to make that all far more accessible with the HomeRacker, a modular and 3D-printable rack...
Google is Building a New OS
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Google Is Building A New OS
Windows, macOS, and Linux are the three major desktop OSs in today’s world. However, there could soon be a new contender, with Google steppin...
This Bedtime Bot Enforces Better Sleep Hygiene
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This Bedtime Bot Enforces Better Sleep Hygiene
[Will Dana] is engineering his way to better sleep hygiene. Not satisfied with a simple bedtime reminder notification — such things are easil...
KiDoom Brings Classic Shooter to KiCad
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KiDoom Brings Classic Shooter To KiCad
As the saying goes: if it has a processor and a display, it can run DOOM. The corollary here is that if some software displays things, someone will...