Hackaday Links: February 16, 2021

This is it; after a relatively short transit time of eight months, the Mars 2020 mission carrying the Perseverance rover has almost reached the Red Planet. The passage has been pretty calm, but that’s all about to end on Thursday …read more

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Hackaday Links: August 2, 2020

If you somehow manage to mentally separate yourself from the human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic, it really has provided a fascinating glimpse into how our planet operates, and how much impact seven billionpeople have on it. Latest among these revelations is that the shutdowns had a salubrious effect in …read more

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AVRO’s Project 1794: A Canadian Flying Saucer

For those of us who grew up somewhere in the 1950s to 1970s what our car would like in the year 2020, we might have described an Avrocar. This top secret vehicle from Canadian Avro, was part hovercraft and part jet-powered vertical takeoff vehicle. There were two prototypes actually made …read more

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