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ESP32 Plugs In to Real-Time Crypto Prices

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

In today’s high-speed information overload environment, we often find ourselves with too much data to take in at once, causing us to occasionally miss out on opportunities otherwise drowned out …read more Continue reading ESP32 Plugs In to Real-Time Crypto Prices→

Posted in crypto, custom display, Dashboard, ESP32, Microcontrollers, News | Tagged Touchscreen

Vintage Hardware Find Includes Time Capsule of Data

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

Before social media brought the Internet to the masses, and before even Napster, ICQ, and AIM gave those with a phone line a reason to connect online at all, those …read more Continue reading Vintage Hardware Find Includes Time Capsule of Data→

Posted in bbs, DEC, emulator, Hardware, messageboard, retrocomputing, SIMH, vaxstation ii, Virtualization

Arduino Saves Heat Pump

Posted on July 16, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they …read more Continue reading Arduino Saves Heat Pump→

Posted in arduino, Arduino Hacks, arduino mega, control, green hacks, Heat pump, inverter, swimming pool | Tagged Efficiency, Repair

Will HP Create a Carfax System For PCs?

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

When buying used cars there are plenty of ways to check on their history. In many countries there are systems, like Carfax for parts of North America and Europe, that …read more Continue reading Will HP Create a Carfax System For PCs?→

Posted in carfax, computer hacks, Data, Firmware, Hardware, hp, use history

AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

In the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term “artificial intelligence” but is more often an advanced predictive text model of some sort has started taking people’s …read more Continue reading AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs→

Posted in ai, Artificial Intelligence, astronaut, ChatGPT, control, kerbal space program, large language models | Tagged Spacecraft

I Gotta Print More Cowbell

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

Since the earliest days of affordable, home 3D printers, the technology behind them has been continuously improving. From lowering costs, improving print quality, increasing size and detail, and diversifying the …read more Continue reading I Gotta Print More Cowbell→

Posted in 3d printer, 3d Printer hacks, cowbell, filament, Metal, pps-cf | Tagged Carbon Fiber

Whack-A-Disk

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

By now most floppy disks have been relegated to the dustbin of history, with a few exceptions for obscure industrial applications using legacy hardware and, of course, much of the …read more Continue reading Whack-A-Disk→

Posted in amiga, floppy disk, game, games, retrocomputing, whack-a-mole

A Crypto Miner Takes the Straight and Narrow

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

As it stands, cryptocurrency largely seems to be a fad of the previous decade, at least as far as technology goes. During that time, many PC users couldn’t get reasonably …read more Continue reading A Crypto Miner Takes the Straight and Narrow→

Posted in crypto, gpu, Hardware, Media, miner, mining, PCI, repurpose, Server

Super8 Camera Brought to the Modern World

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

Certain styles of photography or videography immediately evoke an era. Black-and-white movies of flappers in bob cuts put us right in the roaring 20s, while a soft-focused, pastel heavy image …read more Continue reading Super8 Camera Brought to the Modern World→

Posted in 80s, analog, camera module, nostalgia, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Zero, super 8

Behind RadioShack’s Cheapest Computer

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Bryan Cockfield

In the 1980s, there was a truly staggering amount of choice for a consumer looking to purchase a home computer. On the high end, something like an Apple Lisa, a …read more Continue reading Behind RadioShack’s Cheapest Computer→

Posted in 1980s, pc, radioshack, retrocomputing, trs-80, trs-80 mc-10

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