Collaborate Disseminate
Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided …read more Continue reading Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons
Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of those photons from radio to …read more Continue reading Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams
You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to produce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers. It wasn’t just …read more Continue reading Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story
With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …read more Continue reading Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell!
If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries …read more Continue reading Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip
Given that the no doubt totally sustainable build-out of data centers has sent both solid state and magnetic hard drive prices soaring, though, [WNY Over The Air] decided to take …read more Continue reading Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server
We’ve probably all got one item in our toolboxes or chests that we really, really don’t like, but find too handy to toss. For [Someone Should Make That], that item …read more Continue reading CNC’d, CNC-inspired Adjustable Wrench Won’t Round Your Bolts
Most musical organs use air as their working fluid, but there’s nothing in the rule book that says they have to. Calliopes have used steam for 150 years now, while …read more Continue reading Only the Hottest Tunes Play on This Fire Organ
We’ve always taken a certain childlike joy in seeing tiny things made big, and big things tiny. Evidently [Uncle Stem] is the same way, if this 7x sized 16×2 “LCD” …read more Continue reading Addressable LEDs Make Giant 16×2 Character Display
[Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more Continue reading Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C?