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Although to the average person a camera lens is just that bit of glass you stick on the front of the camera to make stuff appear in focus, there’s a …read more Continue reading The Tragic Demise of the Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens
Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can come with a host of new and fascinating faults. The Onkyo …read more Continue reading Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults
Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its old Lancashire boilers from the 19th century were finally replaced with modern 1930s boilers, …read more Continue reading How an Old Automatic Stoker was Hacked Onto a Modern Lancashire Boiler
Clocks come in many styles and sizes, with perhaps the most visually pleasing ones involving marbles. Watching these little spheres obey gravity and form clearly readable numbers on a clock …read more Continue reading The World’s Smallest Marble Clock With Pick and Place Arm
The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes. With the …read more Continue reading California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software
In theory HDMI’s CEC feature is great, as it gives HDMI devices the ability to do useful things such as turning on multiple HDMI devices with a single remote control. …read more Continue reading Prevent your Denon Receiver Turning on From Rogue Nvidia Shield CEC Requests
Elastocaloric materials are a class of materials that exhibit a big change in temperature when exposed to mechanical stress. This could potentially make them useful as solid-state replacement for both …read more Continue reading Using a Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooler to Freeze Water
If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch, runs on ARM64 and …read more Continue reading Trying a Vibe-Coded Operating System
Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical oscillators are used in e.g. atomic clocks and many ultra-precise scientific measurements, such …read more Continue reading Creating an Ultra-Stable Lunar Clock With a Cryogenic Silicon Cavity Laser