Collaborate Disseminate
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, humans have been searching for more energy. Especially lately, there has been a huge interest in wind, solar, geothermal, and other ways to …read more Continue reading The Alien Energy Crisis Solved
As [Electronoobs] points out, everything has resistance. So, how hard can it be to make a high-power resistor? In the video below, he examines a commercial power resistor and how …read more Continue reading Power Resistance isn’t Futile
[Alex R2AUK] has been busy creating version two of a homebrew all-band ham radio transceiver. The unit has a number of features you don’t always see in homebrew radios. It …read more Continue reading GitHub Hosts Ham Radio
[Mellow_Labs] was asked to create a GPS speedometer. It seems simple, but of course, the devil is in the details. You can see the process and the result in the …read more Continue reading GPS at Any Speed
How many lines do you need on a CP/M terminal? More is usually better, of course, but the MicroOffice RoadRunner managed with an 8-row, 80-column LCD screen. That may sound …read more Continue reading CP/M on an Eight Line Display
When you think about virtualization, you usually think about making some CPU pretend to be another CPU. However, there are sometimes advantages to making a computer pretend to be the …read more Continue reading Emulate a KIM-1 with a Commodore 64
According to [Asianometry], no one believed in the scanning electron microscope. No one, that is, except [Charles Oatley].The video below tells the whole story. The Cambridge graduate built radios during …read more Continue reading How We Got the Scanning Electron Microscope
If you haven’t worked with the US government, you might not know Mitre, a non-profit government research organization. Formed in 1958 by the U.S. Air Force as a company to …read more Continue reading Mitre Wants the Feds to Play in Its Sandbox
Ever heard of a Dutch company called Holborn (literally, born in Holland)? We hadn’t either, but [Bryan Lunduke] showed us these computers from the early 1980s, and we wondered if …read more Continue reading Z80s From the ’80s Had Futuristic Design
[Greg] has been working with the Tang Nano 9K FPGA board. He wanted to use the Gowin Analysis Oscilloscope (GAO) to build an internal monitor into the device for probing …read more Continue reading Peering Inside the Tang FPGA