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2001: An Air Quality Odyssey

Posted on April 8, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

2001: A Space Odyssey not only pushed the boundaries of filmmaking, but introduced us to one of the most enduring villains in all of media. The HAL 9000 artificial intelligence …read more Continue reading 2001: An Air Quality Odyssey→

Posted in air quality, home automation, home hacks, Monitoring, VOC

Chicken Coop Door Performs in Harsh Environment

Posted on April 3, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

One of the pitfalls of modern engineering is that it’s entirely possible to end up in a situation where a product or solution has been designed by someone who has …read more Continue reading Chicken Coop Door Performs in Harsh Environment→

Posted in atmega, chicken coop, coop, green hacks, state machine | Tagged Automation

Battery Tester Outperforms Cheaper Options

Posted on April 1, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

Batteries are notoriously difficult pieces of technology to deal with reliably. They often need specific temperatures, charge rates, can’t tolerate physical shocks or damage, and can fail catastrophically if all …read more Continue reading Battery Tester Outperforms Cheaper Options→

Posted in Battery Hacks, battery tester, capacity, current source, mosfet, Raspberry Pi | Tagged Chemistry

A Better Jogging Stroller

Posted on April 1, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

Although the jogging stroller is a fixture of suburban life, allowing parents the opportunity to get some exercise while letting their young children a chance for some fresh air, it …read more Continue reading A Better Jogging Stroller→

Posted in hall effect, jogging, microcontroller, transportation hacks | Tagged Running, Stroller

Recreating One of the First Hackintoshes

Posted on March 30, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

Apple’s Intel era was a boon for many, especially for software developers who were able to bring their software to the platform much more easily than in the PowerPC era. …read more Continue reading Recreating One of the First Hackintoshes→

Posted in 3d printed, apple, bluescsi, case, Hackintosh, Mac, Macintosh, Macintosh SE, motherboard, power supply, retrocomputing

Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology

Posted on March 30, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their their underlying …read more Continue reading Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology→

Posted in educational, Hardware, IBM, Machine Learning, pdp-11, retrocomputing, transformer | Tagged Model

Luthier Crafts Guitar from Cardboard

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

The people at Signal Snowboards are well known not only for producing quality snowboards, but doing one-off builds out of unusual and perhaps questionable materials just to see what’s possible. …read more Continue reading Luthier Crafts Guitar from Cardboard→

Posted in Cardboard, luthier, musical hacks | Tagged Guitar

Modern Smartphone vs. 80s Supercomputer

Posted on March 26, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

One of the most common ways of comparing the processing power of some microcontroller or older smartphone in a fantastical way was to say that they had more processing power …read more Continue reading Modern Smartphone vs. 80s Supercomputer→

Posted in apple, comparison, computer hacks, computing power, cray 2, gflops, iPhone, smartphone, unix, unix system v | Tagged Supercomputer

Demonstrating Gray Codes With Industrial Display

Posted on March 26, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

Many people base huge swaths of their lives on foundational philosophical texts, yet few have read them in their entirety. The one that springs to the forefront of many of …read more Continue reading Demonstrating Gray Codes With Industrial Display→

Posted in demonstration, encoding, exhibit, gray code, industrial light, reflected binary, rotary encoder, Science

The Most Secure, Modern Computer Might Be A Mac

Posted on March 25, 2026 by Bryan Cockfield

The Linux world is currently seeing an explosion in new users, thanks in large part to Microsoft turning its Windows operating system into the most intrusive piece of spyware in …read more Continue reading The Most Secure, Modern Computer Might Be A Mac→

Posted in Featured, how-to, Interest, linux hacks

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