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To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a flash can be triggered with the scene in the dark …read more Continue reading An Arduino Triggers a Flash With Sound
We’ve seen many portable laptops using the Raspberry Pi series of boards in the decade-plus since its launch. The appeal of a cheap board that can run a desktop Linux …read more Continue reading Portable Pi Palmtop Provides Plenty
Over the decades the technology behind flat panel displays has continuously evolved, and we’ve seen many of them come and go. Among the popular ones there are a few that …read more Continue reading Have You Heard Of The Liquid Powder Display?
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of …read more Continue reading PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
Flip digit clocks are a prized piece of consumer electrical ephemera, providing as they do a digital display without significant electronics. Making your own flip digit display involves some drudgery …read more Continue reading A Flip Digit Clock, Binary Style
For those who missed it, there’s been something of a quiet revolution in the world of analogue video over the last year, due to the arrival of inexpensive “MiniDVR” devices. …read more Continue reading Barbie’s Video Has Never Looked So Good
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise into a computer circuit in the hope of disrupting program flow and causing unexpected behaviour …read more Continue reading The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become …read more Continue reading The Turing Machine Made Real, In LEGO
If you’re a seasoned international rail traveler you will no doubt have become used to the various sounds of electric locomotives and multiple units as they start up. If you …read more Continue reading Why Electric Trains Sound The Way They Do
Making a digital camera is a project that appears easy enough, but it’s one whose complexity increases depending on the level to which a designer is prepared to go. At …read more Continue reading An Open Source Mirrorless Camera You’d Want To Use