Collaborate Disseminate
If you were alive when 2001: A Space Odyssey was in theaters, you might have thought it didn’t really go far enough. After all, in 1958, the US launched its first satellite. …read more Continue reading History of Forgotten Moon Bases
Predicting the future is a dangerous occupation. Few people can claim as much success as Arthur C. Clarke, the famous science and science fiction author. Thanks to the BBC and …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future
[Doug Brown] had a problem. He uses a dummy HDMI plug to fool a computer into thinking it has a monitor for when you want to run the computer headless. …read more Continue reading Dummy Plug Gets Smarter with Raspberry Pi
We’ve all been there. [Kasyan TV] had a universal adapter for a used laptop, and though it worked for a long time, it finally failed. Can it be fixed? Of …read more Continue reading Laptop Brick is Brought Back from the Brink
When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio …read more Continue reading Cassette Data Storage from the 1970s
[Bhuvanmakes] says that he has the simplest open source photobioreactor. Is it? Since it is the only photobioreactor we are aware of, we’ll assume that it is. According to the …read more Continue reading Simple Open Source Photobioreactor
I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a lot of different answers about bait, equipment, and boats. Some …read more Continue reading Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio at War
Some people love tools in their browsers. Others hate them. We certainly do like to see just how far people can push the browser and version 0.6 of CHILI3D, a …read more Continue reading Open Source CAD in the Browser
They say that if you let a million monkeys type on a million typewriters, they will eventually write the works of Shakespeare. While not quite the same thing [bbenchoff] (why …read more Continue reading Randomly Generating Atari Games
It is a good bet that if most scientists and engineers were honest, they would most like to leave something behind that future generations would remember. While Marie Curie met …read more Continue reading What Marie Curie Left Behind