All Hail The OC71 Such are the breadth of functions delivered by integrated circuits, it’s now rare to see a simple small-signal transistor project on these pages. But if you delve back into the …read more #hacking #projects

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All Hail The OC71

Such are the breadth of functions delivered by integrated circuits, it’s now rare to see a simple small-signal transistor project on these pa...

Nikon Small World Competition Announces 2025 Winners They say that, sometimes, less is more. That would certainly apply to photomicrography, where you want to take pictures of tiny things. Nikon agrees, and they sponsor the Small World …read more #hacking #projects

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Nikon Small World Competition Announces 2025 Winners

They say that, sometimes, less is more. That would certainly apply to photomicrography, where you want to take pictures of tiny things. Nikon agree...

Web Development in… Pascal? If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker …read more #hacking #projects

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Web Development In… Pascal?

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was ...

Testing Cheap DC Breakers and How to Not Start Fires One characteristic of adding PV solar to homes is a massive increase in high-voltage and high-current DC installations. With this comes a need for suitable breakers, but without the requisite …read more #hacking #projects

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Testing Cheap DC Breakers And How To Not Start Fires

One characteristic of adding PV solar to homes is a massive increase in high-voltage and high-current DC installations. With this comes a need for ...

Original E39 Head Unit Modernized Although most modern cars have moved to using proprietary components nearly everywhere, especially when it comes to infotainment systems, for a brief moment which peaked in the 90s and 00s …read more #hacking #projects

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Original E39 Head Unit Modernized

Although most modern cars have moved to using proprietary components nearly everywhere, especially when it comes to infotainment systems, for a bri...

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: A Bistable Flip-Flop With A Fuse The flip-flop, in whichever of its several forms you encounter it, is a staple of logic design. Any time that you need to hold onto something, count, or shift bits, …read more #hacking #projects

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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: A Bistable Flip-Flop With A Fuse

The flip-flop, in whichever of its several forms you encounter it, is a staple of logic design. Any time that you need to hold onto something, coun...

Know Audio: Lossy Compression Algorithms And Distortion In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human …read more #hacking #projects

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Know Audio: Lossy Compression Algorithms And Distortion

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of...

Give ATMega88 the Boot With This Retro Front Panel It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the very first home computers, it …read more #hacking #projects

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Give ATMega88 The Boot With This Retro Front Panel

It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the...

Analog Surround Sound Was Everywhere, But You Probably Didn’t Notice These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital files that cram in many millions of …read more #hacking #projects

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Analog Surround Sound Was Everywhere, But You Probably Didn’t Notice

These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital files that cram ...

Mushrooms As Computer Memory Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and public consciousness compared to plants and animals. That may change in the future …read more #hacking #projects

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Mushrooms As Computer Memory

Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and public consciousness co...