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Hackaday Podcast 051: Pointing With Your Tongue, C64 Touchpad, USB Killcord, and Audacity Does Everything

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Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams sort through the hacks you might have missed over the past seven days. In FPGA hacking news, there’s a ton of work being done on a newly discovered FPGA dev board. Kristina has a new column on input devices, kicking it off with …read more

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Get Compressed Air From Falling Water With The Trompe

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If you’re like us, understanding the processes and methods of the early Industrial Revolution involved some hand waving. Take the blast furnace, which relies on a steady supply of compressed air to stoke the fire and supply the oxygen needed to smelt iron from ore. How exactly was air compressed …read more

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