Collaborate Disseminate
From laser cutters to 3D printers, having an exhaust duct at the back of a machine is a very common sight. However, these tend to be rather bulky, claiming many …read more Continue reading Flattening the Exhaust of a Laser Cutter to Save Space
It’s fair to say that the topic of so-called ‘AI coding assistants’ is somewhat controversial. With arguments against them ranging from code quality to copyright issues, there are many valid …read more Continue reading New Linux Kernel Rules Put the Onus on Humans for AI Tool Usage
Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the entire scope of us ingesting sensory information, the processing and …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Human Cognition and Decision Making in a Modern Age
After some water intrusion apparently killed one of [electronupdate]’s Amazon Blink Gen 3 cameras he took this opportunity to do a full teardown and analysis of all the major components. …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering an Amazon Blink Gen 3 Camera
Although the number of uses for a 2009-era Mac Mini aren’t very long, using them to run new-and-upcoming operating systems like Haiku on would seem to be an interesting use …read more Continue reading Trying to Install Haiku on a 2009 Mac Mini
Self-similar images are rather common, which are images in which the same image is repeated on a smaller scale somewhere within the image that one is looking at, something which …read more Continue reading The Complex Transformations Underlying MC Escher’s Works
A while back [Jack] came across a Taito arcade game that neither he nor any of his mates recognized. The game was Adventure Canoe and part of the collection of …read more Continue reading Making the Forgotten 1982 Game Adventure Canoe run on MAME
Although vapor-compression refrigeration is a simple concept, there are still a lot of details in the implementation of such a system that determines exactly how efficient it is. After making …read more Continue reading Testing Refrigerants and Capillary Tubes to Find Peak Performance
Although we can already buy commercial transceiver solutions that allow us to use PCIe devices like GPUs outside of a PC, these use an encapsulating protocol like Thunderbolt rather than …read more Continue reading Implementing PCIe over Fiber Using SFP Modules
With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system …read more Continue reading Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew