Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete …read more #hacking #projects
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Retrotechtacular: Learning The Slide Rule The New Old Fashioned Way
Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashione...
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How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners needed to guarantee a solid supply of fuel …read more #hacking #projects
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How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin
During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners ne...
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A Stylish Moon And Tide Clock For The Mantlepiece Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jotting things down in your notebook. …read more #hacking #projects
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A Stylish Moon And Tide Clock For The Mantlepiece
Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jottin...
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Give Us One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home, eager to tinker, but …read more #hacking #projects
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Give Us One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers
We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home,...
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Build Your Own Glasshole Detector Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’t …read more #hacking #projects
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Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence migh...
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Little Lie Detector is Probably No Worse Than The Big Ones Want to know if somebody is lying? It’s always so hard to tell. [dbmaking] has whipped up a fun little polygraph, otherwise known as a lie detector. It’s nowhere near …read more #hacking #projects
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Little Lie Detector Is Probably No Worse Than The Big Ones
Want to know if somebody is lying? It’s always so hard to tell. [dbmaking] has whipped up a fun little polygraph, otherwise known as a lie de...
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Converting a 1980s Broadcast Camera to HDMI Although it might seem like there was a sudden step change from analog to digital sometime in the late 1900s, it was actually a slow, gradual change from things like …read more #hacking #projects
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Converting A 1980s Broadcast Camera To HDMI
Although it might seem like there was a sudden step change from analog to digital sometime in the late 1900s, it was actually a slow, gradual chang...
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Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the …read more #hacking #projects
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Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds
A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill U...
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TARS-Like Robot Both Rolls, and Walks [Aditya Sripada] and [Abhishek Warrier]’s TARS3D robot came from asking what it would take to make a robot with the capabilities of TARS, the robotic character from Interstellar. We couldn’t …read more #hacking #projects
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TARS-Like Robot Both Rolls, And Walks
[Aditya Sripada] and [Abhishek Warrier]’s TARS3D robot came from asking what it would take to make a robot with the capabilities of TARS, the...
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Using a Level 2 Charger to Work Around Slow 120 VAC Kettles To those of us who live in the civilized lands where ~230 VAC mains is the norm and we can shove a cool 3.5 kW into an electric kettle without …read more #hacking #projects
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Using A Level 2 Charger To Work Around Slow 120 VAC Kettles
To those of us who live in the civilized lands where ~230 VAC mains is the norm and we can shove a cool 3.5 kW into an electric kettle without so m...
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