Collaborate Disseminate
As the saying goes, “if it can’t be grown, it has to be mined”– but what about all the metals that have already been wrested from the bosom of the …read more Continue reading e-Waste and Waste Oil Combine to Make Silver
Every school child can tell you these days that Mars is red because it’s rusty. The silicate rock of the martian crust and regolith is very rich in iron oxide. …read more Continue reading Aussie Researchers Say They Can Bring The Iron Age to Mars
If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, well, we hope you enjoyed your rip-van-winkle nap this past decade or so. For everyone else, you probably at least know that this is …read more Continue reading ESP32 Hosts Functional Minecraft Server
This should count as a hack: making music from a thing that should not sing. In this case, [SIROJU] is tickling the ivories with a Brushless DC motor, or BLDC. …read more Continue reading Musical Motors, BLDC Edition
To update an old saying for the modern day, one man’s e-waste is another man’s bill of materials. Upcycling has always been in the hacker’s toolkit, and cellphones provide a …read more Continue reading Old Phone Upcycled Into Pico Projector, ASMR
Does the in 65F02 “F” stand for “fast” or “FPGA”? [Jurgen] doesn’t know, but his drop-in replacement board for the 6502 and 65c02 is out there and open source, whatever …read more Continue reading 65F02 is an FPGA 6502 with a Need For Speed
The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably long before. They’ve never shied from adopting innovation: churro sheep …read more Continue reading The 555 as You’ve Never Seen It: In Textile!
For all its friendly countenance and award-winning industrial design, there’s one thing the venerable Macintosh Plus can’t do: fit into a 1U rack space. OK, if we’re being honest with …read more Continue reading Rackintosh Plus Is the Form Factor Nobody Has Been Waiting For
Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was all we had. On the other hand, there …read more Continue reading Was Action! The Best 8-Bit Language?
Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those …read more Continue reading O Brother, What Art Thou?