Collaborate Disseminate
Even though laptops from around the early 2000s came with just about every conceivable port on them, they still would often feature a somewhat unusual combined video output port. While …read more Continue reading That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port on Old Laptops
The RepRapMicron (also µRepRap) is pretty much the microscopic take on what RepRap did for more macroscale manufacturing, with the most recent innovation being a UV print head, called the …read more Continue reading RepRapMicron Uses Fibre Optics To Print Tiny Benchy in Resin
The Chinese had been using large crossbows – akin to Greek and Roman ballistae – for warfare for many of the same reasons that European armies loved them. Their single, …read more Continue reading Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Storm of Crows Weapon
Recently the [Chornobyl Family] got their hands on an ES-4001 control panel for a 1970s-era Soviet mainframe, with the intention to restore it to full working order. Not just because …read more Continue reading Restoring a Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel
Recently the [Chornobyl Family] got their hands on an ES-4001 control panel for a 1970s-era Soviet mainframe, with the intention to restore it to full working order. Not just because …read more Continue reading Restoring a Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel
Although you can do basic floating point format operations like addition and subtraction just fine on any CPU, having specialized hardware for it can provide a significant speed boost. Here …read more Continue reading Floating-Point Addition and Subtraction on Intel’s 8087
Before the advent of effective semiconductor LEDs many display types existed to display things like numbers and other characters. The Nixie tube is a well-known one, along with VFDs and …read more Continue reading Making a Five-Segment Display with Platinum-Titanium Cathodes
Measuring electric currents is an essential element of many electrical systems, but doing so in a way that is as nonintrusive as possible is not an easy problem to solve. …read more Continue reading Every Type of Current Sensor Explained
Although we generally do not look at bubbles in fluids as more than a curiosity – if not an outright annoyance – in certain contexts they can be very useful. …read more Continue reading Using Ultrasound and Microbubbles to Make Tiny Devices
If you have developed in Pascal or Delphi in the past decades, you’re probably familiar with the Lazarus IDE that provides an interface to the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC), much …read more Continue reading Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler Gain Dynamic Package Support