Space Age Road Rage: Right Of Way Above The Karman Line

On a dark night in 2006 I was bicycle commuting to my office, oblivious to the countless man made objects orbiting in the sky above me at thousands of miles …read more Continue reading Space Age Road Rage: Right Of Way Above The Karman Line

How Does A Sail Drone Bring Home Hurricane Footage In Record Time?

It is unlikely that as a young lad [Richard Jenkins] would had have visions of sailing into the eye of a Category-4 hurricane. Yet that’s exactly what he’s done with …read more Continue reading How Does A Sail Drone Bring Home Hurricane Footage In Record Time?

Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially

Close up shot of a mechanical sequencer for 555 based synthesizers

What’s better than an Atari Punk Console synthesizer? How about four Atari Punk Console synthesizers. And what better way to present them but as brass wire art sculptures. We’d have …read more Continue reading Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially

Open Source Hot Rod Mod Gives More Power To EV Owners

Nissan Leaf Zooms By with 110KW power after Inverter swap and hack

Meet [Daniel Öster]. [Daniel] is a self-professed petrolhead. In other words, he’s a hot rodder who can’t leave well enough alone. Just because he’s driving a 2012 Nissan Leaf doesn’t …read more Continue reading Open Source Hot Rod Mod Gives More Power To EV Owners

The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More

The Ultimate 1541 Talk by Michael Steil, presented at the Vintage Computer Festival West

When we think of retrocomputing, it’s very often the computers themselves that get all the glory.  There’s nothing wrong with this of course- the computers of the late 70’s and …read more Continue reading The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More