Collaborate Disseminate
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
In theory having a single device that combines the features of multiple dedicated devices is a great idea, saving a lot of space, time and money. However, in reality it …read more Continue reading The Curse of the Everything Device
The Yamaha DX7 is one of the most iconic synthesizers that emerged in the early 1980s, and is still very popular today. That said, with even the newest of these …read more Continue reading Restoring a Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more civilized types of destructive …read more Continue reading Railguns: Making Metal Go Fast Using the Lorentz Force
It’s quite the understatement to say that at this point in time we don’t quite understand how even the tiniest brain works exactly. Much of this is due to the …read more Continue reading The Challenges of Simulating a Human Brain on a Supercomputer