Collaborate Disseminate
Picture this: It’s the end of the year, and a few hardy souls gather in a hackerspace to enjoy a bit of seasonal food and hang out. Conversation turns to …read more Continue reading New Years Circuit Challenge: Make This RFID Circuit
Social media microblogging has brought us many annoying things, but some of the good things that have come to us through its seductive scrolling are those ad-hoc interest based communities …read more Continue reading Release Your Inner Ansel Adams With The Shitty Camera Challenge
We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard …read more Continue reading Do You Know Vail Code?
While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely replaced by LEDs and other lighting technology. However, you still …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Incandescent Bulbs
By the end of World War II the world had changed forever, as nuclear weapons were used for the first and – to this date – only time in anger. …read more Continue reading Atoms For Peace: the US Nuclear Fleet Build-Out and Modern-Day Revival
Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that …read more Continue reading Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn’t Know Were There
Recently there was a bit of a panic in the media regarding a very common item in kitchens all around the world: black plastic utensils used for flipping, scooping and …read more Continue reading Human Civilization and the Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils Panic
These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a …read more Continue reading Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?
When you hear the cry of “Man Overboard!” on a ship, it’s an emergency situation. The sea is unkind to those that fall from their vessel, and survival is never …read more Continue reading Man Overboard Systems Aim To Increase Survival Rates At Sea
A long-term project of mine is the the Sony Vaio new mainboard project. A year ago, I used it as an example to show you the cool new feature in …read more Continue reading Sony Vaio Revived: How Does One Start?