Collaborate Disseminate
Recently [ETA Prime] felt a bit underwhelmed by the raw performance of his MacBook Neo when it came to running for extended periods under full load, such as when gaming. …read more Continue reading Water Cooling the MacBook Neo Laptop to Double Gaming Performance
You can certainly just chug down that bottle of soda you purchased, but if you accept the premise that the preparation of food and drink is just a subset of …read more Continue reading Improving Soda by Turning It Into Mead
If you have a 12 VDC power system, like the battery of a PV solar system or car, would it be more efficient to boil water for that cup of …read more Continue reading Comparing the Power Usage of 12 VDC and 240 VAC Kettles
Pocket computers like Sharp’s 8-bit computing marvels were a big part of the 1980s, providing super-portable processing power to anyone who wanted a bit more than what something like a …read more Continue reading Reconstructed SC62015 Opcode Reference For Sharp Pocket Computers
Physical media has a certain amount of durability associated with it, a quality which is naturally determined by the way that they’re stored. Generally this does not involve being abandoned …read more Continue reading Testing Severely Neglected VHS Tapes and CDs
After a lot of debugging, [Seth Kushniryk] has managed to get the last issuess shaken out of his port of MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple II, and has released the …read more Continue reading You Can Now Run MS-DOS Applications on the Apple IIe
Although usually nylon (generally PA6) filament is pretty cheap, there are some more exotic variants out there, such as the PA12-based Lyten 3D graphene filament that comes in at a …read more Continue reading Testing Expensive Graphene-Reinforced Nylon Filament
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is tasked with regulating both wired and wireless communications, which also includes a national security component. This is how previously the FCC tossed networking …read more Continue reading US FCC Prohibits Approval of New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
Creating PCBs at home is quite easy these days (vias not withstanding), but even the best DIY methods usually can’t match the resolution offered by commercial PCB production lines. Large …read more Continue reading Using a Fiber Laser to Etch 0.1 mm PCB Traces
Although it may be hard to believe for current generations, there was a time when the Internet and the World Wide Web were not as integrated into society as it …read more Continue reading Age-Verification and the World Before Social Media