Collaborate Disseminate
Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and if playing Full Motion Video …read more Continue reading A Full Motion Video Codec For the Atari ST
[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser intended …read more Continue reading Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser
Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more Continue reading New File Manager is C64’s Answer to Norton Commander
There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as being able to produce …read more Continue reading UV Printer? 3D Printer? HeyGears says “Why Not Both”?
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?