Collaborate Disseminate
Although uranium-235 is the typical fuel for commercial fission reactors on account of it being fissile, it’s relatively rare relative to the fertile U-238 and thorium (Th-232). Using either of …read more Continue reading China’s TMSR-LF1 Molten Salt Thorium Reactor Begins Live Refueling Operations
Back in the olden days, there existed physical game stores, which in addition to physical games would also have kiosks where you could try out the current game consoles and …read more Continue reading Restoring an Abandoned Game Boy Kiosk
Although we tend to see mostly the glorious and fun parts of hanging out in a space station, the human body will not cease to do its usual things, whether …read more Continue reading Haircuts in Space: How to Keep Your Astronauts Looking Fresh
Running a dairy farm used to be a rather hands-on experience, with the farmer required to be around every few hours to milk the cows, feed them, do all the …read more Continue reading Rise of the Robots: How Robots Are Changing Dairy Farms
These days even a lowly microcontroller can easily trade blows with – or surpass – desktop systems of yesteryear, so it is little wonder that DIY handheld gaming systems based …read more Continue reading GK STM32 MCU-Based Handheld Game System
Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this …read more Continue reading Porting COBOL Code and the Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages
The General Instruments AY-3-8910 was a quite popular Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) that saw itself used in a wide variety of systems, including Apple II soundcards such as the Mockingboard …read more Continue reading Something is Very Wrong With the AY-3-8913 Sound Generator
A major bottleneck with high-frequency wireless communications is the conversion from radio frequencies to optical signals and vice versa. This is performed by an electro-optic modulator (EOM), which generally are …read more Continue reading Plasmonic Modulators Directly Convert Terahertz Waves to Optical Signals
An unavoidable part of old home computer systems and kin like the Commodore PET is that due to the age of their components they will develop issues that go far …read more Continue reading A Tricky Commodore PET Repair and a Lesson About Assumptions
Whilst recently perusing the fine wares for sale at VCF East, [Action Retro] ended up adopting a 1995 ProStar laptop. Unlike most laptops of the era, however, this one didn’t …read more Continue reading The ProStar: the Portable Gaming System and Laptop From 1995