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The Universal Serial Bus. The one bus to rule them all. It brought peace and stability to the world of computer peripherals. No more would Apple and PC users have to …read more Continue reading USB Hub-A-Dub-Dub: Weird Edge Cases Are My Ruin
[Azpaca] purchased a fun little toy car from Tamiya, only… there was a problem. The little off-roader wasn’t up to scratch—despite its four-wheel-drive, it couldn’t get over rough ground to …read more Continue reading Tiny RC Four-Wheeler Gets Chassis Upgrade For More Traction
When you’re spitting out G-Code for a 3D print, you can pick all kinds of infill settings. You can choose the pattern, and the percentage… but the vast majority of …read more Continue reading Could Non-Planar Infill Improve The Strength Of Your 3D Prints?
Redbox was a company with a moderately interesting business model—it let you rent DVDs from automated kiosks. It’s an idea so simple it’s almost surprising it didn’t appear sooner. Only, …read more Continue reading RedBox In The 80s: Meet The VHS Vending Behemoth
These days, turn-by-turn GPS navigation isn’t considered special anymore. It’s in every smartphone and most cheap rental cars, and thus everybody expects you to figure out where you’re going. If …read more Continue reading Antique-Style GPS Looks Like Steampunky Fun
The Timex Sinclair 1000 was a sleek and compact machine, and the US counterpart to the more well-known Spectrum ZX-81. Timex may not have come to dominate the computer market, …read more Continue reading A New Case and Keyboard For The Timex Sinclair 1000
Chalk is fun to draw with, and some people even get really good at using it to make art on the sidewalk. If you don’t like tediously developing such skills, …read more Continue reading Automating The Process Of Drawing With Chalk
Quadcopters are flying machines. Traditionally, that would mean you’d optimize the design for lightweight and minimum drag, and you’d do everything in a neat and tidy fashion. The thing is, …read more Continue reading Why Not Build Your Quadcopter Around An Evaluation Board?
Remember the ZEOS Pocket PC? Perhaps you knew it as the Tidalwave PS-1000. Either way, it was a small clamshell computing device that was first released all the way back …read more Continue reading Ancient Pocket Computer Gets a USB-C Upgrade
You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As we all learned in kindergarten, blue paint …read more Continue reading Digital Paint Mixing Has Been Greatly Improved With 1930s Math