Collaborate Disseminate
Recently researchers finished mapping the central nervous system (CNS) connectome of not just the female Drosophila melanogaster (i.e. fruit fly) brain, but also that of the male D. melanogaster for a comparative …read more Continue reading Fly Brain Connectome Used to Trade Stocks and Play Games
After the Orion capsule of the Artemis I lunar mission returned to Earth, it was found that massive chunks of its heatshield had been ripped off, posing a serious risk …read more Continue reading Re-creating NASA’s Heat Shield Problem
During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) co-processor, [Ken Shirriff] has now arrived at the point where he can …read more Continue reading Analyzing the FScale Instruction in Intel’s 8087 FPU
Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful bits of plastic, [Jamie] has been …read more Continue reading Making an Air-Powered Circular Saw with LEGO
Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable’, naturally. This …read more Continue reading Looking at a TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive from 1983
When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less …read more Continue reading Trying to Fix a Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch
For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact …read more Continue reading Making a Neo Nuvistor Project in 2026
As FDM printers keep getting faster, we are forced to deal with a range of bottlenecks, all of which conspire to hold us back from another Benchie world record. A …read more Continue reading Changing Nozzle Internal Geometry to Increase FDM Flowrate
A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to basic questions, like how you can still access the …read more Continue reading Creating a Custom Hinge for a Motorbike’s Fuel Access Panel
The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if …read more Continue reading Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode ROM