Collaborate Disseminate
Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, …read more Continue reading Inside SKALA: How Chernobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled
If all you want is just a basic WiFi extender that gets some level of network connectivity to remote parts of your domicile, then it might be tempting to get …read more Continue reading Exploring Security Vulnerabilities in a Cheapo WiFi Extender
Before it became viable to distribute and play music tracks on home computers, the use of FM and Wavetable synthesis was very common, with MIDI Wavetable-based devices like the Roland …read more Continue reading A Look Inside the Creative MB-10 MIDI Blaster
Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the Perseverance Mars rover that can give …read more Continue reading NASA Uses Mars Global Localization as GNSS Replacement for the Perseverance Rover
Considering that the Serial Peripheral Interface bus semi-standard has been around since the early 1980s, it’s perhaps not that shocking that the controllers of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) …read more Continue reading SNES Controllers are (Almost) SPI-Compatible
There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around …read more Continue reading Cynus Chess Robot: a Chess Board With a Robotic Arm
For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such a way that we can for example undo the harms …read more Continue reading Accidental Climate Engineering With Disintegrating Satellites
Everyone loves Wago connectors for how versatile and effective they are for quickly and securely connecting conductors, but it can be tempting to buy a bag of the significantly cheaper …read more Continue reading Teardown of Dangerous Fake Wago Connectors
Water-cooled PCs generally have in common that there’s a radiator somewhere in the loop, yet nobody said that you can’t build the PCB into the radiator. Something like a genuine …read more Continue reading Turning a Cast-Iron Radiator into a Water-Cooled PC
There was a time before portable TVs and personal media players when the idea of putting coin-operated TVs everywhere, from restaurants to airports and laundromats, would have seemed like a …read more Continue reading Vend-o-Vision: Trading Quarters for Watching TV in Public