Collaborate Disseminate
Way back in 2008, Apple unveiled the first unibody Macbook with a chassis milled out of a single block of aluminum. Before that, essentially all laptops, including those from Apple, …read more Continue reading An iPhone Case Study
Unless you’re running a commercial logging operation, with specialized saws, log grapples, mills, transportation for the timber, and the skilled workers needed to run everything, it’s generally easier to bring …read more Continue reading A Portable Chainsaw Sawmill
We all carry touch screen computers around in our pockets these days, but before the smartphone revolution, there was the personal digital assistant (PDA). While it wasn’t a commercial success, …read more Continue reading Apple Newton Gets Rebuilt Battery Pack
For better or worse, a lot of human technology is confined to fewer dimensions than the three we can theoretically move about in. Cars and trains only travel two dimensionally …read more Continue reading Chaotic System Cooks Meat Evenly
At the time of its construction in the 1950s, the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory was the largest rotatable telescope in the world with a dish diameter of 25 meters. It was …read more Continue reading Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals from Voyager 1
Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, …read more Continue reading The Math Behind the Music of the 80s
The extended filesystem, otherwise known as ext, has been a fundamental part of Linux since before the 1.0 release in 1994. Currently the filesystem is on its fourth major revision, …read more Continue reading A Potential Exploit with the Ext Filesystem
Anyone who has operated a 3D printer before, especially those new to using these specialized tools, has likely had problems with the print bed. The bed might not always be …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Eliminates the Printer Bed
It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carriers …read more Continue reading Smartphone Runs Home Server
When thinking of retrocomputing, many of us will imagine machines such as the Commodore 64 or Apple II. These computers were very popular and have plenty of parts and documentation …read more Continue reading Retro Computer Goes Back to the 1950s