Collaborate Disseminate
In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting …read more Continue reading The World Wide Web and the Death of Graceful Degradation
Within the nuclear sciences, including fuel production and nuclear medicine (radiopharmaceuticals), often specific isotopes have to be produced as efficiently as possible, or allow for the formation of (gaseous) fission …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Uranium-Carbide Structures for Nuclear Applications
Theoretically bicycle rental services are a great thing, as they give anyone the means to travel around comfortably without immediately having to rent a car, hail a taxi or brave …read more Continue reading The Nightmare of Jailbreaking a ‘Pay-To-Ride’ Gotcha Ebike
The Apple MacIntosh Plus was one of the most long-lived Apple computers and saw three revisions of its 128 kB-sized ROMs during its life time, at least officially. There’s a …read more Continue reading The Lost 256 KB Japanese ROM for the MacIntosh Plus Has Been Found
As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from …read more Continue reading Voyager 1’s Primary Thrusters Revived Before DSN Command Pause
Once a printed circuit board (PCB) has been assembled it’s rather hard to look inside of it, which can be problematic when you have e.g. a multilayer PCB of an …read more Continue reading LACED: Peeling Back PCB Layers With Chemical Etching and a Laser
Google’s ChromeOS and associated hardware get a lot of praise for being easy to manage and for providing affordable hardware for school and other educational settings. It’s also undeniable that …read more Continue reading Turning a Chromebox Into a Proper Power-Efficient PC
There’s a strange allure to single-pixel cameras due to the simultaneous simplicity and yet fascinating features that they can offer, such as no set resolution limit. That said, the typical …read more Continue reading A Single-Pixel Camera Without Moving Parts Using Compressed Sensing
In the world of (expensive) lab test equipment the GPIB (general purpose interface bus) connection is hard to avoid if you want any kind of automation, but nobody likes wrangling …read more Continue reading PoE-powered GPIB Adapter with Ethernet and USB-C Support
Recently [Colin Leroy-Mira] found himself slipping into a bit of a rabbit hole while investigating why only under Apple II MAME emulation there was a lot of flickering when using …read more Continue reading The Apple II MouseCard IRQ is Synced to Vertical Blanking After All