An RPN Calculator and a Bonus VFD Clock From Casio Revival <img width="800" height="251" src=" alt="The clock and the rebuilt calculator from which its VFD was donated."/>Have you heard the saying “the problem is the solution”? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally well to electronics. Take the problem [shiura]

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An RPN Calculator And A Bonus VFD Clock From Casio Revival

Have you heard the saying &#8220;the problem is the solution&#8221;? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally w...

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An RPN Calculator And A Bonus VFD Clock From Casio Revival

Have you heard the saying &#8220;the problem is the solution&#8221;? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally w...

Reviving ReBoot With a Tape Deck Repair <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="[Mark] shows off footage from a D1 master on the repaired deck"/>Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer-animated show on

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Reviving ReBoot With A Tape Deck Repair

Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer...

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Reviving ReBoot With A Tape Deck Repair

Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer...

Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new problem. Making the problem simple like

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Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds

An old joke in physics is that of the &#8220;spherical cow&#8221;, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new proble...

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Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds

An old joke in physics is that of the &#8220;spherical cow&#8221;, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new proble...

Print Pixel Art to a Floppy Disk <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid state storage, there is

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Print Pixel Art To A Floppy Disk

Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid state storage, th...

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Print Pixel Art To A Floppy Disk

Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid state storage, th...

Modifying a QingPing Air Quality Monitor for Local MQTT Access <img width="800" height="423" src=" alt=""/>The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the room, but also includes an

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Modifying A QingPing Air Quality Monitor For Local MQTT Access

The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the ...

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Modifying A QingPing Air Quality Monitor For Local MQTT Access

The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the ...

Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike <img width="800" height="251" src=" alt=""/>Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska. If you were to

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Sleeping Rough In Alaska With A USPS Cargo Bike

Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you&#8217;d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alask...

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Sleeping Rough In Alaska With A USPS Cargo Bike

Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you&#8217;d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alask...

Ray Marching in Excel <img width="800" height="497" src=" alt=""/>3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel

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Ray Marching In Excel

3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you cou...

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Ray Marching In Excel

3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you cou...

Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time <img width="784" height="625" src=" alt="The Nintendo 64DD, an N64 add-on released only in Japan in 1999."/>What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the premise of the Nintendo

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Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants In Ocarina Of Time

What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the pre...

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Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants In Ocarina Of Time

What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the pre...

Are We Ready for AR Smart Glasses Yet? <img width="800" height="375" src=" alt=""/>In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to hang a computer screen

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Are We Ready For AR Smart Glasses Yet?

In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready t...

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Are We Ready For AR Smart Glasses Yet?

In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready t...

Quote Printer Keeps Receipts <img width="800" height="451" src=" alt=""/>In the world of social media, “keeping receipts” refers to the practice of storing evidence that may come in handy for a callout post at a later date. For [Teddy

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Quote Printer Keeps Receipts

In the world of social media, &#8220;keeping receipts&#8221; refers to the practice of storing evidence that may come in handy for a callout post a...

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Quote Printer Keeps Receipts

In the world of social media, &#8220;keeping receipts&#8221; refers to the practice of storing evidence that may come in handy for a callout post a...

Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="A photo of the thrust meter from the Apollo lunar module"/>[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some

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Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] wa...

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Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] wa...

Teardown of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System <img width="800" height="454" src=" alt=""/>Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping

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Teardown Of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System

Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the...

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Teardown Of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System

Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the...

The Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958 <img width="800" height="534" src=" alt="Scientific staff members working on the computing machine Setun"/>[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and

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The Setun Was A Ternary Computer From The USSR In 1958

[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world&#8217;s first ternary computer, was devel...

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The Setun Was A Ternary Computer From The USSR In 1958

[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world&#8217;s first ternary computer, was devel...

Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, and Other AC Surprises <img width="577" height="576" src=" alt=""/>While we’re 100 years past Edison’s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap one’s head around. It’s just

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Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, And Other AC Surprises

While we&#8217;re 100 years past Edison&#8217;s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap on...

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Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, And Other AC Surprises

While we&#8217;re 100 years past Edison&#8217;s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap on...

Printing in Metal with DIY SLM <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="A bed of metal powder is visible through a green-tinted window. A fused metal pattern, roughly square, is visible, with one corner glowing white and throwing up sparks."/>An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as tends to be the

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Printing In Metal With DIY SLM

An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as ...

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Printing In Metal With DIY SLM

An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as ...

Zork Running on 4-Bit Intel Computer <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any computer of the

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Zork Running On 4-Bit Intel Computer

Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any co...

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Zork Running On 4-Bit Intel Computer

Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any co...

Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11 <img width="800" height="410" src=" alt=""/>Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this

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Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today&#8217;s Windows experience doesn&#8217;t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and l...

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Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today&#8217;s Windows experience doesn&#8217;t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and l...

A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate but Possibly Low Cost <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative investment and partially because other speculative

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A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate But Possibly Low Cost

For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative inv...

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A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate But Possibly Low Cost

For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative inv...

Qron0b: a Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch <img width="800" height="487" src=" alt=""/>Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietly snickered at

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Qron0b: A Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch

Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietl...

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Qron0b: A Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch

Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietl...

Adding Solar Power to an Electric Tractor <img width="800" height="251" src=" alt="The solar-electric tractor is out standing in its field."/>In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it’s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not so much in one

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Adding Solar Power To An Electric Tractor

In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it&#8217;s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not so much in one country as...

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Adding Solar Power To An Electric Tractor

In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it&#8217;s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not so much in one country as...