Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re a fan of vintage electronics and DIY tinkering, you’ll find this teardown by [Thomas Scherrer] fascinating. In a recent video, he delves into a rare piece of equipment: …read more Continue reading Tearing Down a Digital Scope from ’78
Over the decades the video and music industries have tried a wide range of ways to get consumers to buy ‘cheaper’ versions of albums and music, but then limit the …read more Continue reading 2View: The Self-Erasing VHS Tape With Paperclip Hack
[Ken] recently obtained an attitude indicator—sometimes called an artificial horizon—from an F-4 fighter jet. Unlike some indicators, the F-4’s can rotate to show pitch, roll, and yaw, so it moves …read more Continue reading Inside the F-4 Attitude Indicator
Although not as prevalent as Flash memory storage, ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) offers a range of benefits over the former, mostly in terms of endurance and durability, which makes it popular …read more Continue reading Inside a 1999 Ramtron Ferroelectric RAM Chip
Like many of us, [Gabe] has things he just can’t stop buying. In his case, it is portable satellite dishes. You’ve seen these. They look like a dome or maybe …read more Continue reading Inside a Portable Satellite Dish
Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a cat’s household — like feeding and cleaning Mr. Fluffles’ litter box — are generally a …read more Continue reading The Rise of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes
[MIKROWAVE1] claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a malfunctioning Hallicrafters S-120 shortwave receiver. He lets us watch as he tries to get it …read more Continue reading Repairing a Hallicrafters S-120
It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of digital control. But how accurate is it? Probably pretty accurate, …read more Continue reading How Hot is That Soldering Iron?
Over at EDN, [Brian Dipert] has been tearing down web cameras. A few months ago, he broke into a bargain basement camera. This time, he’s looking into a premium unit. …read more Continue reading Pulling Apart a Premium WebCam
Canadian consumer goods testing site RTINGS has been subjecting 100 TVs to an accelerated TV longevity test, subjecting them so far to over 10,000 hours of on-time, equaling about six …read more Continue reading Edge-Lit, Thin LCD TVs Are Having Early Heat Death Issues