Collaborate Disseminate
The Display/Keyboard unit – DSKY for short – is the primary way that Apollo-era astronauts communicated with the onboard computers. Not all DSKYs ended up in space, however, with the …read more Continue reading Repairing a Real (and Broken) Apollo-era DSKY
It’s a well-known fact that anti-ferromagnetic materials are called that way because they cannot be magnetized, not even in the presence of a very strong external magnetic field. The randomized …read more Continue reading Selectively Magnetizing an Anti-Ferromagnet With Terahertz Laser
Recently the 29.8 meter parabolic antenna at the Australian OTC (overseas telecommunications commission) station came back to life again after nearly forty years spent in decommissioning limbo. This parabolic dish …read more Continue reading Carnarvon’s Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years
With an exciting new year of retrocomputing ahead for [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric YouTube channel, recently some new hardware arrived at the farm. Specifically hardware from a company …read more Continue reading Usagi’s PDP-11 Supercomputer and Appeal for Floating Point Systems Info
In the world of showing off, there is alongside ‘Does it play Doom?’ that other classic of ‘Does it play Bad Apple?’. Whereas either would be quaint in the context …read more Continue reading Bad Apple but it’s 6,500 Regex Searches in Vim
Adding threads to your 3D prints is a life-changing feature, but obviously there are a lot of trade-offs and considerations when deciding on how to go about this exactly. Between …read more Continue reading Comparing Ways to Add Threads to Your 3D Prints
Sheet metal is very easy to form, including the pressing in of intricate shapes with dies and a hydraulic press, but the dies themselves are slightly harder to come by. …read more Continue reading Sheet Metal Forming With 3D Printed Dies
Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obsolete …read more Continue reading Physical Media is Dead, Long Live Physical Media
Nobody likes reading the fine print, least of all when you’re just downloading some 3D model. While printing a copy for personal use this is rarely an issue, things can …read more Continue reading 3DBenchy Starts Enforcing its No Derivatives License
Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another …read more Continue reading Cleaning Up Bhopal: the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster