Windmill Desk Lamp Is Beautifully Soothing Typically, lamps provide a stationary source of light to illuminate a given area and help us see what we’re doing. However, they can also be a little more artistic and …read more #hacking #projects image
The Miracle of Color TV We’ve often said that some technological advancements seemed like alien technology for their time. Sometimes we look back and think something would be easy until we realize they didn’t have …read more #hacking #projects image
Automatically Remove AI Features From Windows 11 It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to …read more #hacking #projects image
Building And Testing A Turbine Driven Hydro Generator The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator.  The devil here is, of course, …read more #hacking #projects image
Nostalgic Camera Is A Mashup Of Analog Video Gear These days, you get a fantastic camera with the purchase of just about any modern smartphone. [Abe] missed some of the charm of earlier, lower-quality digital cameras, though, and wanted …read more #hacking #projects image
Chip Swap Fixes a Dead Amiga 600 The Amiga 600 was in its day the machine nobody really wanted — a final attempt to flog the almost original spec 68000 platform from 1985, in 1992. Sure it …read more #hacking #projects image
Bare Metal STM32: Increasing the System Clock and Running Dhrystone When you start an STM32 MCU with its default configuration, its CPU will tick along at a leisurely number of cycles on the order of 8 to 16 MHz, using …read more #hacking #projects image