New Browser-based CAD System is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, and …read more #hacking #projects
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New Browser-based CAD System Is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes
Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a ...
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What Happens When You Pump 30,000 Watts Into a Tungsten Incandescent Light Bulb? Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns …read more #hacking #projects
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What Happens When You Pump 30,000 Watts Into A Tungsten Incandescent Light Bulb?
Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump ...
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The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not be What You Expect Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that …read more #hacking #projects
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The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not Be What You Expect
Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to ...
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Ride On with FOSS and GoldenCheetah If you exclude certain companies like Peloton, the world of cycling technology is surprisingly open. It’s not perfect by any means, but there are enough open or open-ish standards for …read more #hacking #projects
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Ride On With FOSS And GoldenCheetah
If you exclude certain companies like Peloton, the world of cycling technology is surprisingly open. It’s not perfect by any means, but there...
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Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song at 15k RPM Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving inline-4 motorcycle engines he’s trying to put together too, …read more #hacking #projects
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Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song At 15k RPM
Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving...
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with …read more #hacking #projects
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification
This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of...
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3D Printering: That New Color Printer Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet printer, the process …read more #hacking #projects
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3D Printering: That New Color Printer
Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet...
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That Power Bank Isn’t Quite So Sweet An unlikely hit of the last few months’ consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first gained attention in backpacking circles because …read more #hacking #projects
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That Power Bank Isn’t Quite So Sweet
An unlikely hit of the last few months’ consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first ...
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In Which I Vibe-Code a Personal Library System When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involved checking out books …read more #hacking #projects
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In Which I Vibe-Code A Personal Library System
When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involve...
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Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags into Conference Badges Ever wonder what happens to those digital price tags you see in stores once they run out of juice? In what is a prime example of e-waste, many of those …read more #hacking #projects
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Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags Into Conference Badges
Ever wonder what happens to those digital price tags you see in stores once they run out of juice? In what is a prime example of e-waste, many of t...
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