Collaborate Disseminate
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
Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, infrastructure, and the continued existence of squishy bags of mostly …read more Continue reading Triggering Lightning and Safely Guiding It Using a Drone
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the most (in)famous entries. Designed from the ground up to be …read more Continue reading Hacky Shack? The TRS-80 Model I Story
Of all FDM filament types, flexible ones such as TPU invite a whole new way of thinking, as well as applications. Case in point the TPU-based bellows that the [Functional …read more Continue reading 3D Printed TPU Bellows with PLA Interface Layers
At first glance the very idea of a zipper that unzips and zips up by itself seems somewhat ridiculous. After all, these contraptions are mostly used on pieces of clothing …read more Continue reading YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems
When it comes to open source signal analysis software for logic analyzers and many other sensors, Sigrok is pretty much the only game in town. Unfortunately after an issue with …read more Continue reading Sigrok Website Down After Hosting Data Loss
These days you can run Doom anywhere on just about anything, with things like porting Doom to JavaScript these days about as interesting as writing Snake in BASIC on one’s …read more Continue reading Abusing DuckDB-WASM To Create Doom In SQL
Using steam to produce electricity or perform work via steam turbines has been a thing for a very long time. Today it is still exceedingly common to use steam in …read more Continue reading How Supercritical CO2 Working Fluid Can Increase Power Plant Efficiency