Collaborate Disseminate
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
Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases …read more Continue reading Why Physical Media Deserved To Die
Recently a team at Fudan University claimed to have developed a picosecond-level Flash memory device (called ‘PoX’) that has an access time of a mere 400 picoseconds. This is significantly …read more Continue reading PoX: Super-Fast Graphene-Based Flash Memory
Long before the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) was said to take the world by storm, the p-System (pseudo-system, or virtual machine) developed at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) …read more Continue reading Remembering UCSD p-System, the Pascal Virtual Machine
Water is an excellent coolant, but the flip side is that it is also an excellent solvent. This, in short, is why any water cooling loop is also a prime …read more Continue reading Preventing Galvanic Corrosion in Water Cooling Loops