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I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily …read more Continue reading From a Ten-Line Script to a Real Utility with Codex
If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today. Instead of typing: …read more Continue reading “I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy
If you tear into old TVs or recording equipment, you may see shields made from some exotic-looking metal. Old timers will tell you it’s called mu metal, and its purpose …read more Continue reading What’s Mu Metal?
What did Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams read in Hackaday last week? Probably everything, but you can tune in and hear about their favorites on this week’s podcast. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 384: OCR MOD Records, Magical PCBs, and the Gravity of Space Stations
One day, people will look back at what we call Artificial Intelligence and laugh. We do the same thing today, as chat bots totally outstrip what the computer industry called …read more Continue reading Artificial Intelligence as It Once Was
Last time we found out the idea of space stations is surprisingly old. By the 1950s, everyone knew we’d be working in beautiful space stations that rotated like a wheel …read more Continue reading An Early History of Space Stations: Where’s My Wheel?
People have lived in space stations for decades now, but something is wrong with them. Where are the big rotating wheels? You know the ones. They show up in old …read more Continue reading An Early History of Space Stations: The Brick Moon Made Real
While Hackaday’s bread and butter is, of course, hacks, we sometimes cover things that most of us are interested in that are probably out of reach for the typical hacker. …read more Continue reading Reading isn’t Rocket Science… But In This Case…
FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP, rsync, or something even fancier. But FTP refuses to die, …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Improving FTP
We’ve heard of wave overhangs before. It is a new technique for printing horizontal overhangs with no supports. Building on some other techniques like arc overhangs. The idea is to …read more Continue reading More On Wave Overhangs for 3D Printing