Collaborate Disseminate
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric farm is back …read more Continue reading Usagi Electric’s Paper Tape Reader is Ready to Hop With the Tube Computer
The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD …read more Continue reading An 80386 Upgrade Deal and Intel 486 Competitor: the Cyrix Cx486DLC
Of the many big, unanswered questions in this Universe, the ones pertaining to the functioning of biological neural networks are probably among the most intriguing. From the lowliest neurally gifted …read more Continue reading Pong in a Petri Dish: Teasing Out How Brains Work
If you need to measure the presence of photons down to a very small number of them, you are looking at the use of a photomultiplier, as explained in a …read more Continue reading How Photomultipliers Detect Single Photons
Following in the tracks of unconventional science projects, [The Thought Emporium] seeks to answer the question of whether you can use a potato as a photograph recording medium. This is …read more Continue reading Using a Potato as Photographic Recording Surface
After 47 years it’s little wonder that the hydrazine-powered thrusters of the Voyager 1, used to orient the spacecraft in such a way that its 3.7 meter (12 foot) diameter …read more Continue reading Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration
The number of people going on cruises keeps rising year over year, with the number passengers carried increasing from just over 3.7 million in 1990 to well over 28 million …read more Continue reading Cruise Ship-Lengthening Surgery: All the Cool Companies Are Doing It
Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code. Within the realm of these languages there is a wide range of …read more Continue reading Assessing the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages
Although not the first to try and build a DIY solar-powered remote control airplane, [ProjectAir]’s recent attempt is the most significant one in recent memory. It follows [rctestflight]’s multi-year saga …read more Continue reading Hard Lessons Learned While Building a Solar RC Plane
Many have sought the holy grail of making commercial media both readable and copy-proof, especially once everyone began to copy those floppies. One of these attempts to make floppies copy-proof …read more Continue reading PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok