Collaborate Disseminate
There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC side citing performance per watt and some on the CISC …read more Continue reading Computer Has One Instruction, Many Transistors
Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a …read more Continue reading A Breadboard Computer in Three Chips
As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, …read more Continue reading NFC Hidden In Floppy Disk For Retro-Themed PC
One of the practical upsides of improved computer vision systems and machine learning has been the ability of computers to translate text from one language or format to another. [Jchen] …read more Continue reading This Polaroid-esque OCR Machine Turns Text to Braille in the Wild
Modern computers generate a great deal of heat when under load, thus we cool them with fans and sometimes even water cooling systems. [Doug MacDowell] figured that water was alright, …read more Continue reading A PC That Uses Hot Coffee As Coolant
Water cooling was once only the preserve of hardcore casemodders and overclockers. Today, it’s pretty routinely used in all sorts of performance PC builds. However, few are using large artistic …read more Continue reading Massive Aluminum Snake Casting Becomes Water Cooling Loop For PC
Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and …read more Continue reading 8 Bit Mechanical Computer Built from Knex
There are all manner of musical myths, covering tones and melodies that have effects ranging from the profound to the supernatural. The Pied Piper, for example, or the infamous “brown …read more Continue reading One Laptop Manufacturer Had To Stop Janet Jackson Crashing Laptops
Although we might all fundamentally recognize that gaming consoles are just specialized computers, we generally treat them, culturally and physically, differently than we do desktops or laptops. But there was …read more Continue reading Behind the Bally Home Computer System
[David] sent us a tip about a company in Belgium, Citronics, that is looking to turn old cellphones into single-board computers for embedded Linux applications. We think it’s a great …read more Continue reading Turning Old Cellphones into SBCs