Collaborate Disseminate
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
Until recently, hobby-grade digital oscilloscopes were mostly, at most, 8-bit sampling. However, newer devices offer 12-bit conversion. Does it matter? Depends. [Kiss Analog] shows where a 12-bit scope may outperform …read more Continue reading Two Bits, Four Bits, a Twelve-bit Oscilloscope
You might wonder why you’d repair a calculator when you can pick up a new one for a buck. [Tech Tangents] though has some old Sony calculators that used Nixie …read more Continue reading Repairing Vintage Sony Luggable Calculators
Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t …read more Continue reading Information Density: Microfilm and Microfiche