The History of the View-Master
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alt=""/>The media is full of breathless reports that AI can now code and human programmers are going to be put out to pasture. We aren’t convinced. In fact, we think 
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alt=""/>Gaussian Splats is a term you have likely come across, probably in relation to 3D scenery. But what are they, exactly? This blog post explains precisely that in no time 
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alt="The most exciting search engine 68k can handle."/>Do you have a classic Amiga computer? Do you want to search the web with iBrowse, but keep running into all that pesky modern HTML5 and HTTPS? In that case, ![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/My-Dream-Microphone-Costs-25000-%E2%80%94-So-I-Made-My-Own.-17-50-screenshot.png?w=800")
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alt=""/>Every now and then in histories of the 20th’s century’s earlier years, you will see pictures of cars and commercial vehicles equipped with bulky drums, contraptions to make their fuel 
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alt="Hackaday Links Column Banner"/>We’ve probably all seen some old newsreel or documentary from The Before Times where the narrator, using his best Mid-Atlantic accent, described those newfangled computers as “thinking machines,” or better 
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alt=""/>[Baptiste Marx] shares his take on designing emergency structures using PVC pipe in a way that requires an absolute minimum of added parts. CINTRE (French, English coverage article here) is 
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alt=""/>The way to get into radio, and thence electronics, in the middle years of the last century, was to fire up a shortwave receiver and tune across the bands. In 
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alt=""/>Wood is an amazing material to use around the house, both for its green credentials and the way it looks and feels. That said, as a natural product there are 