Collaborate Disseminate
Throughout history, visions of the future included human-looking robots. These days we have plenty of robots, but they don’t look like people. They look like disembodied arms, cars, and over-sized …read more Continue reading Robot Hand Looks and Acts Like the Real Thing
If we told you that a C preprocessor hack dated back to 1968, you’d be within your rights to remind us that C didn’t exist in 1968. However, assemblers with …read more Continue reading The X Macro: A Historic Preprocessor Hack
If you have a cheap laptop and you realize you can’t connect a second monitor to it, what do you do? Well, if you are [Pierre Couy], you grab a …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Adds Second Laptop Monitor
While you might think the military doesn’t have a sense of humor with names. Take the AN/MSQ-19 “automated tactical operations central” for example. (Video, embedded below.) But then, when you …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Military Graphics in the 1960s
You’ve probably seen three-way bulbs. You know, the ones that can go dim or bright with each turn of a switch. [Brian Dipert] wondered how the LED version of these …read more Continue reading Three Way LED Bulb Gives Up Its Secrets
Nixie clocks are nothing new. But [CuriousMarc] has one with a unique pedigree: the Apollo Program. While restoring the Apollo’s Central Timing Equipment box, [Marc] decided to throw together a …read more Continue reading The Nixie Clock from Outer Space
There’s an old magic trick known as the miser’s dream, where the magician appears to pull coins from thin air. Australian scientists say they can now generate electricity out of …read more Continue reading Enzymes Make Electricity from Thin Air
[Ben Z] loves the Sphere computer, a very early entry in the personal computer boom of the mid 1970s. The 6800 CPU was unique in its day that it was …read more Continue reading A Love Letter to the Sphere Computer
If you can explain what a USB PID, a J state, a K state, and an SOF are, you can probably stop reading now. But if you don’t know or …read more Continue reading The USB Protocol, Explained
[Big Clive] picked up a keychain battery to charge his phone and found out that it was no bargain. Due to a wiring mistake, the unit was wired backward, delivering …read more Continue reading That Cheap USB Charger Could be Costly