Clone Wars: IBM Edition If you search the Internet for “Clone Wars,” you’ll get a lot of Star Wars-related pages. But the original Clone Wars took place a long time ago in a galaxy …read more #hacking #projects image
Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past the Greenwald Density Limit Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, but increasing said density is tricky, as beyond a certain point the …read more #hacking #projects image
An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever used a drawing tablet of this nature, you may have …read more #hacking #projects
Atari Brings the Computer Age Home [The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. It was followed two …read more #hacking #projects image
When Electricity Doesn’t Take the Shortest Path Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans. This is where the …read more #hacking #projects image
Old Windsurfers Become New Electric Surfboards Windsurfing has experienced a major decline in popularity in the last few decades as the sport’s culture failed to cater to beginners at the same time that experienced riders largely …read more #hacking #projects image
Hacking the Krups Cook4Me Smart Cooking Pot for Doom With more and more kitchen utilities gaining touch screens and capable microcontrollers it’d be inconceivable that they do not get put to other uses as well. To this end [Aaron …read more #hacking #projects image
Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the …read more #hacking #projects image
Finding A Way To Produce Powerful Motors Without Rare Earths The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has progressed at a rapid pace, and engineers have developed ways to charge vehicles …read more #hacking #projects image
Great Trains, Not So Great AI Chatbot Security A joy of covering the world of the European hackerspace community is that it offers the chance for train travel across the continent using the ever-good-value Interrail pass. For a …read more #hacking #projects image