Collaborate Disseminate
When you need to make very tiny measurements, even noise in closed relays can throw you off. [Marco] was able to observe this effect and wanted to build a switch …read more Continue reading Reinventing Rotary Switches with Stepper Motors
Some people trick out their cars. Some, their computers. There are even people who max out their audio systems, although back in 1979, there was more of that going on, …read more Continue reading Weird Old Stereo Accessories
According to Smithsonian Magazine, a salvage company in London was cleaning out a property and found an odd-looking computer device. No one knew what it was, and they couldn’t find …read more Continue reading One Man’s Trash is… a Rare $60,000 Historical Computer
[Stephen McNamera] found a schematic for a grid leak radio online and decided to throw together a few tubes on a piece of wood and see how it worked. As …read more Continue reading Grid Leak Radio Draws the Waves
It certainly isn’t a new idea to compile a language into an intermediate language. The original C++ compiler outputs C code, for example. Enhanced versions of Fortran were often just …read more Continue reading Amber Compiles to Bash
It used to be that only the most well-equipped home electronics lab had a microscope. However, with SMD parts getting smaller and smaller, some kind of microscope is almost a …read more Continue reading Hands On: AD409-Max Microscope
There was a time when real system administrators just logged into Unix systems as root. But as we all know — with great power comes great responsibility. It’s too easy …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Root Cause
You might have had a boombox back in the 1990s, but probably not like the Yamaha MDP-10. As [Nicole] explains, the odd little device played MIDI files from a floppy …read more Continue reading This MIDI BoomBox Takes Floppies
[Markus] grabbed an ESP32 and created a good-looking e-ink dashboard that can act as a status display for Home Automation. However, the hardware is generic enough that it could work …read more Continue reading Home Assistant Display Uses E-Ink
In the 1960s, if you were a teenager in the United States, a big part of your life was probably music. There was a seemingly endless supply of both radio …read more Continue reading Radio Caroline at 60