Collaborate Disseminate
Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base. …read more Continue reading Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors
Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, …read more Continue reading Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck
If you ever make it to DNA Pizza in San Francisco, you may feel as though you’re being watched. The Eye of the Pizza is Upon You. Or, it was, …read more Continue reading Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector
Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more Continue reading Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator
Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with …read more Continue reading Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges
These days, it is easy to think you always have access to the Internet. But some wonder if — in spite of its ARPANET, nuclear-war-planning heritage — you can actually …read more Continue reading Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network?
Building a PC used to be a fun adventure — what’s the latest, what’s the greatest, what can I afford? Well, that last question seems to have taken over and …read more Continue reading Recycling Laptops and iMacs Makes PC Building Fun and Affordable Again
In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational language. Nowadays, the kids are …read more Continue reading QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer
[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there …read more Continue reading Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens
Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “coulda used a 555” — well, [Hulk] actually agrees when it …read more Continue reading ESP32-driven Roulette Wheel Could Have Used a 555, but That Didn’t have WiFi