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Although not intended to be a game console, the CD-i would see a a couple of games released for it that would cement its position in gaming history as the …read more Continue reading Fixing Sony and Philips’ Doomed CD-i Console
Not everyone will write their own optimizing compiler from scratch, but those who do sometimes roll into it during the course of ever-growing project scope creep. People like [Michael Moroz], …read more Continue reading Writing an Optimizing Tensor Compiler from Scratch
Although most of us simultaneously accept the premise that magnets are quite literally everywhere and that few people know how they work, a major problem with magnets today is that …read more Continue reading Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the …read more Continue reading The Inner Workings of the Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit
Over the past years there have appeared in the media increasingly more alarming reports about micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and the harm that they are causing not only in the …read more Continue reading Did We Overestimate the Potential Harm from Microplastics?
In a recent video [QWZ Labs] demonstrates an interesting technique to use 3D printing to make creating custom PCBs rather straightforward even if all you have is a 3D printer …read more Continue reading Using 3D Printing and Copper Tape to Make PCBs
Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be replaced. Yet when the …read more Continue reading Servicing the ‘Not Serviceable’ Bearings on a Vacuum Power Head
With the powerful off-the-shelf hardware available to us common hardware hobbyist folk, how hard can it be to make a smartphone from scratch? Hence [V Electronics]’s Spirit smartphone project, with …read more Continue reading Pi Compute Module Powers Fully Open Smartphone
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In addition to this, you …read more Continue reading Create a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter
Before the refrigerator became a normal part of any kitchen, those with enough money to throw around could get an icebox, which used melting ice to cool food and drinks …read more Continue reading Restoring a 1924 Frigidaire B-9 Refrigerator Back to Working Condition