Collaborate Disseminate
We always enjoy [The History Guy] videos, although many of them aren’t much about technology. However, when he does cover tech topics, he does it well and his recent video …read more Continue reading When Hams Helped Polar Researchers Come In From The Cold
There was a time when we thought a 50 MHz 486 was something to get excited about. In comparison, the computer this post was written on clocks in at about …read more Continue reading Building Petahertz Logic with Lasers and Graphene
[Adrian] has a lot of retrocomputers, so he uses an RGB to HDMI converter to drive modern monitors. In particular, he has a box that uses a programmable logic chip …read more Continue reading Repairing an HDMI Adapter Doesn’t Go So Well
Despite what it looks like in the movies, it is hard to communicate with astronauts from Earth. There are delays, and space vehicles don’t usually have a lot of excess …read more Continue reading Can You Hear Me Now? Lunar Edition
These days, mass storage for computers is pretty simple. It either uses a rotating disk or else it is solid state. There are a few holdouts using tape, too, but …read more Continue reading Striping a Disk Drive the 1970 Way
[Johnny] had a monitor that he was particularly fond of. The whole monitor appeared dead, and he decided to open it up and find out what could be wrong. He …read more Continue reading The Hair Dryer Monitor Fix
You might think that anything to do with a soap bubble is for kids. But it turns out that observing light scattering through a soap bubble produces unexpected results that …read more Continue reading Light Whiskers from Soap Bubbles Is Real Science
[Tech Time Traveller] has a lot of voices in his head this week, and most of them are worried about his wife’s reaction to him buying other people’s garbage. We …read more Continue reading Computer Thing Might be Garbage
[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a 20-year-old Acer flatbed scanner that they just couldn’t justify keeping. But it does seem a shame to throw away a working piece of gear. Instead, the old …read more Continue reading Upcycling a Flat Bed Scanner
What’s the size of an AA battery and can run an ARM Cortex M0+ for six months? Well… probably an AA battery, but obviously, that wouldn’t be worth mentioning. But …read more Continue reading Running ARM Chips on Algae Power