Collaborate Disseminate
With an exciting new year of retrocomputing ahead for [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric YouTube channel, recently some new hardware arrived at the farm. Specifically hardware from a company …read more Continue reading Usagi’s PDP-11 Supercomputer and Appeal for Floating Point Systems Info
In the world of showing off, there is alongside ‘Does it play Doom?’ that other classic of ‘Does it play Bad Apple?’. Whereas either would be quaint in the context …read more Continue reading Bad Apple but it’s 6,500 Regex Searches in Vim
Adding threads to your 3D prints is a life-changing feature, but obviously there are a lot of trade-offs and considerations when deciding on how to go about this exactly. Between …read more Continue reading Comparing Ways to Add Threads to Your 3D Prints
Sheet metal is very easy to form, including the pressing in of intricate shapes with dies and a hydraulic press, but the dies themselves are slightly harder to come by. …read more Continue reading Sheet Metal Forming With 3D Printed Dies
Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obsolete …read more Continue reading Physical Media is Dead, Long Live Physical Media
Nobody likes reading the fine print, least of all when you’re just downloading some 3D model. While printing a copy for personal use this is rarely an issue, things can …read more Continue reading 3DBenchy Starts Enforcing its No Derivatives License
Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another …read more Continue reading Cleaning Up Bhopal: the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of material that’s been receiving significant attention as a possible successor of silicon. Recently, a team of researchers has demonstrated the use of TMDs …read more Continue reading Growing Semiconductor Layers Directly With TMDs
The primary feature of stepper motors is listed right within their name: their ability to ‘step’ forwards and backwards, something which they (ideally) can do perfectly in sync with the …read more Continue reading One Small Step: All About Stepper Motors
Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Polynomial Constants in the Pentium’s FPU