The Many Questions and Challenges with DIY Hydroelectric Generators The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus …read more #hacking #projects
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The Many Questions And Challenges With DIY Hydroelectric Generators
The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine...
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Tired of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning the Hot Glue Gun Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the …read more #hacking #projects
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Tired Of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning The Hot Glue Gun
Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You tur...
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PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience [AmiCube] has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed to replace the 68000 CPU in a MiniMig — a recreation of the original Amiga …read more #hacking #projects
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PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience
[AmiCube] has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed to replace the 68000 CPU in a Mini...
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Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background …read more #hacking #projects
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Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick
I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something i...
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The use of Ultrasound to take on Cancerous Tumors As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect our long-term prospects of …read more #hacking #projects
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The Use Of Ultrasound To Take On Cancerous Tumors
As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin ...
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How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans go AWOL It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading freight if any of them know how to fly a plane. …read more #hacking #projects
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How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans Go AWOL
It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading fre...
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Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few hundred dollars, …read more #hacking #projects
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Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions
Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few h...
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Powering on a 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began pitching upgrading from telegrams to real-time voice calls. It wasn’t until the era of digital …read more #hacking #projects
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Powering On A 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System
The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began pitching upgrading from telegrams to real-time voice ca...
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Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who needs it — [Patrick …read more #hacking #projects
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Messing With JPEGs In A Text Editor Is Fun And Glitchy
If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who needs...
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Close-Up Look Reveals that Raindrops Are More Erosive than Assumed Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stuff will get wet and depending …read more #hacking #projects
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Close-Up Look Reveals That Raindrops Are More Erosive Than Assumed
Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stu...
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