Collaborate Disseminate
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization recently pointed out a possible replacement for petrochemical-based polymers: rice resin. A Japanese company makes the material from inedible rice and also makes a …read more Continue reading 3D Printing with Rice Might be Nice
Quantum computers are coming, but there are still many problems with realizing practical machines. One is finding a reliable and affordable way to encode qubits — the basic unit for …read more Continue reading MIT Spins Qubits Round and Round
Too busy playing video games to have a social life? No worries. In 1985, Nintendo introduced R.O.B. — otherwise known as the Robotic Operating Buddy. It was made to play …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Nintendo R.O.B Wanted to Be Your Friend
The scroll wheel might be the best thing that happened to the computer mouse since, well, the computer mouse. But sometimes you want something a little more tangible. For example, …read more Continue reading Hobnobbing with the Knob
[Action Retro] came into an antique Sol-20 computer and argues that it was the first totally integrated computer aimed at consumers that didn’t require you to buy or build some …read more Continue reading Sol-20 Integrated Computer Teardown
While the world has been racing for higher and higher bit counts for CPUs, there are always those that buck the trend. Consider the venerable Motorola MC14500B, a 1-bit CPU, …read more Continue reading Too Cool for 8-bit Retro? Try 1-bit Gaming
What do you do when you have a lot of LiDAR data and not enough budget to slog through it? That’s the problem the Heritage Quest project was faced with …read more Continue reading Citizen Science Finds Prehistoric Burial Mounds
If you use supports for FDM 3D printing, you might find that some designs are more amenable than others to automatically-generated supports. [Slant 3D] , for example, shows a cool-looking …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Support Gets Down to Tacks
Lately, there has been a push for people to stop using programming languages that don’t promote memory safety. But as we still haven’t seen the death of some languages that …read more Continue reading Modernizing C Arrays for Greater Memory Safety
The news is full of speculation about chatbots like GPT-3, and even if you don’t care, you are probably the kind of person that people will ask about it. The …read more Continue reading Understanding AI Chat Bots with Stanford Online