Collaborate Disseminate
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
Everyone is probably familiar with the concept of battery-powered devices, but generally, this involves a laptop with a beefy battery pack and hardware optimized for low power draw. You could …read more Continue reading Running a Desktop PC off AA Alkaline Cells
Recently the Myrient game video archive announced that they’re shutting down on March 31st of this year, for a couple of reasons, but primarily the skyrocketing financial costs of hosting …read more Continue reading Video Game Archive Myrient to Shut Down on March 31
Although not as reviled as the sound of nails on chalkboard, the sound of adhesive tape being peeled is quite probably at least as distinctive. With every millimeter of the …read more Continue reading Why Peeling Adhesive Tape is so Unreasonably Noisy
The good part about older game consoles like the Super Nintendo is that they have rather rudimentary region locks, but unfortunately this also gives some people the idea that installing …read more Continue reading Fixing the Damage of a Botched SNES SuperCIC Mod