Retrotechtacular: Computers in Schools? 1979 Says Yes The BBC wanted to show everyone how a computer might be used in schools. A program aired in 1979 asks, “Will Computers Revolutionise Education?” There’s vintage hardware and an appearance …read more #hacking #projects

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Retrotechtacular: Computers In Schools? 1979 Says Yes

The BBC wanted to show everyone how a computer might be used in schools. A program aired in 1979 asks, “Will Computers Revolutionise Educatio...

Measuring Earth’s Rotation with Two Gyroscopes We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In …read more #hacking #projects

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Measuring Earth’s Rotation With Two Gyroscopes

We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than fru...

A PCB Can Be A Hydrofoil, If it Really Wants To You know those old cliche that the younger generations have begun to cynically despise: “follow your dreams!” “You can be anything you put your mind to!” — well, perhaps they …read more #hacking #projects

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A PCB Can Be A Hydrofoil, If It Really Wants To

You know those old cliche that the younger generations have begun to cynically despise: “follow your dreams!” “You can be anythin...

Deep Fission Wants to put Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations in a very compact space. Though they are extremely safe, with only the TMI-2 …read more #hacking #projects

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Deep Fission Wants To Put Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground

Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations in a very compa...

Saving a Rental Ebike From the Landfill One of the hardest things about owning a classic car is finding replacement parts. Especially if the car is particularly old or rare, or if the parent company is now …read more #hacking #projects

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Saving A Rental Ebike From The Landfill

One of the hardest things about owning a classic car is finding replacement parts. Especially if the car is particularly old or rare, or if the par...

DIY Polyphonic Synth Sings in 8-Part Harmony There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The world of …read more #hacking #projects

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DIY Polyphonic Synth Sings In 8-Part Harmony

There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken ov...

Assistive Radio Tells You What You Can’t See We think of radios as audio devices, but for people who are visually impaired, it can be difficult to tell which channel you are listening to at any given time. …read more #hacking #projects

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Assistive Radio Tells You What You Can’t See

We think of radios as audio devices, but for people who are visually impaired, it can be difficult to tell which channel you are listening to at an...

DIY TENS Machine is a Pain-Relief PCB Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal …read more #hacking #projects

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DIY TENS Machine Is A Pain-Relief PCB

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trick...

Building an Acoustic Radiometer A Crookes radiometer, despite what many explanations claim, does not work because of radiation pressure. When light strikes the vanes inside the near-vacuum chamber, it heats the vanes, which then …read more #hacking #projects

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Building An Acoustic Radiometer

A Crookes radiometer, despite what many explanations claim, does not work because of radiation pressure. When light strikes the vanes inside the ne...

RavynOS: Open Source MacOS with Same BSD Pedigree That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded …read more #hacking #projects

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RavynOS: Open Source MacOS With Same BSD Pedigree

That macOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent rel...