A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS to Work The line between a Linux user and a Linux power user is a bit gray, and a bit wide. Most people who install Linux already have more computer literacy than …read more #hacking #projects
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A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work
The line between a Linux user and a Linux power user is a bit gray, and a bit wide. Most people who install Linux already have more computer litera...
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High-Tech Trailer Brings Water Home Living without standard utility hookups like electricity, Internet, water, and sewer comes with a whole host of challenges, all of which are most commonly solved by spending lots of money. …read more #hacking #projects
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High-Tech Trailer Brings Water Home
Living without standard utility hookups like electricity, Internet, water, and sewer comes with a whole host of challenges, all of which are most c...
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Making a CRT Spin Right Round, Round, Round If you’ve got a decent CRT monitor, you can usually adjust the settings to make sure the image scans nicely across the whole display. But what if you could rotate …read more #hacking #projects
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Making A CRT Spin Right Round, Round, Round
If you’ve got a decent CRT monitor, you can usually adjust the settings to make sure the image scans nicely across the whole display. But wha...
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Design of Common Emitter Amplifier It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn’t come up as often as …read more #hacking #projects
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Design Of Common Emitter Amplifier
It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn&#8217...
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Taking a Look at Variable Vacuum Capacitors Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of air, some high-end variable …read more #hacking #projects
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Taking A Look At Variable Vacuum Capacitors
Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor diele...
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Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living on the Enterprise-D? If …read more #hacking #projects
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Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard
At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be livi...
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EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM machine! EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s with great delight that …read more #hacking #projects
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EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM Machine!
EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat un...
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A New Kind of Inductively-damped Compass At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in a cup of water. …read more #hacking #projects
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A New Kind Of Inductively-damped Compass
At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork ...
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The Intel 8087 and Conditional Microcode Tests Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode contains the …read more #hacking #projects
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The Intel 8087 And Conditional Microcode Tests
Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this flo...
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The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection [Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device from 1997 promised to …read more #hacking #projects
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The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection
[Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder de...
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