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While some may see amateur rocketry as little more than attaching fins to a motor and letting it fly, it is, in fact, rocket science. This fact became very clear …read more Continue reading What Happens When a Bug Rears its Head at Mach Two?
Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever used a drawing tablet of this nature, you may have …read more Continue reading An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet
While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the …read more Continue reading Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster
These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in the olden days, one would have to manually …read more Continue reading Play Games in UEFI…to Access Your Computer
If you’ve ever heard the sound of an aircraft passing overhead and looked at an online plane tracker to try and figure out what it was, then you’ve interacted with …read more Continue reading An RP2040 Powered ADS-B Receiver
Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid state storage, there is …read more Continue reading Print Pixel Art to a Floppy Disk
3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel …read more Continue reading Ray Marching in Excel
NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to …read more Continue reading How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP
History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting …read more Continue reading The Cardboard Airplane Saga Continues
Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight …read more Continue reading Making a Cardboard Airplane Wing