Collaborate Disseminate
It’s not every day that you get to update the firmware on a device that was produced in the 1970s, and rarely is said device well beyond the boundaries of …read more Continue reading NASA JPL’s Voyager Team Is Patching Up Both Voyagers’ Firmware
The ferroelectrical properties of materials have found a variety of uses over the years, including in semiconductor applications. Ferroelectric memory is among the most interesting and possibly world-changing as it …read more Continue reading New Type of Ferroelectric Memory Constructed Using α-In2Se3 Material
Before the era of digital electronic computers, mechanical analog computers were found everywhere. From the relative simplicity of bomb sights to the complexity of fire control computers on 1940s battleships, …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer
As useful as electronics are, the need to have some source of power for them can be a bit of an issue, especially for small, portable devices. One of the …read more Continue reading Ready For The Rapture: This Wind-Up Cassette Player Can Play Anywhere
Back in presumably the early 1960s, [David]’s grandfather bought a console stereo featuring a record player, AM/FM radio and a rather astounding stereo speaker system that would be more than …read more Continue reading A Look At a 1960s Tube-Based Magnavox Concert Grand Console Stereo
When National Instruments (NI) released LabVIEW in 1986 it only targeted the Macintosh, with ports to other platforms coming later on in the 1990s. Now, NI has announced that with …read more Continue reading LabVIEW Abandons Mac After Four Decades
In a sudden move that was noted not only by Canadian media, but also international media channels, the National Research Council Time Signal that was broadcast by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation …read more Continue reading Canada Abruptly Ends Official Time Signal
One of the fun aspects of exploring a new planet is that you can set a lot of new records, as is the case with the very first Mars-based helicopter, …read more Continue reading Ingenuity’s 62nd Flight and Attempting a New Speed Record
In what reads somewhat like a convoluted detective story, the events unfolding at the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) in Ukraine during late February had the media channels lighting up with …read more Continue reading How The 2022 CEZ Event Shows The Fragility of Environmental Sensors in High-Risk Areas
While troubleshooting the power supply of a 1970s Centurion system, [Usagi Electrics] came across a fascinating feature of these units: the ferroresonant, or constant voltage transformer (CVT). The main difference …read more Continue reading Learning About Ferroresonant Transformers While Fixing a 1970s Power Supply