Streaming Music to Cassette In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the …read more #hacking #projects

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Streaming Music To Cassette

In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’...

Retro Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and …read more #hacking #projects

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Retro Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is ...

Photographing Cosmic Rays with a Consumer Camera The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are …read more #hacking #projects

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Photographing Cosmic Rays With A Consumer Camera

The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixe...

Create Aerated Concrete Using Xanthan Gum and Dishwashing Liquid To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete significantly lighter, better insulating, and more resilient to …read more #hacking #projects

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Create Aerated Concrete Using Xanthan Gum And Dishwashing Liquid

To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete significantly lighter,...

Cheetah MX4 Mini: A Pint-Sized 3D Printer Controller There’s a seemingly unending list of modifications or upgrades you can make to a 3D printer. Most revolve around the mechanical side of things, many are simple prints or small …read more #hacking #projects

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Cheetah MX4 Mini: A Pint-Sized 3D Printer Controller

There’s a seemingly unending list of modifications or upgrades you can make to a 3D printer. Most revolve around the mechanical side of things, m...

Cloudflare’s Outages and Why Cool Kids Test on Prod Every system administrator worth their salt knows that the right way to coax changes to network infrastructure onto a production network is to first validate it on a Staging network: …read more #hacking #projects

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Cloudflare’s Outages And Why Cool Kids Test On Prod

Every system administrator worth their salt knows that the right way to coax changes to network infrastructure onto a production network is to firs...

Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old …read more #hacking #projects

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Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor

Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an ol...

Moving Mousepad Is An Elegant Aimbot These days, it can be hard to remain competitive in online shooters without spending your entire life dedicated to the sport. This leads some to explore the world of competitive …read more #hacking #projects

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Moving Mousepad Is An Elegant Aimbot

These days, it can be hard to remain competitive in online shooters without spending your entire life dedicated to the sport. This leads some to ex...

What to do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, …read more #hacking #projects

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What To Do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time...

Seeing Sound for Under $200 There are five general senses: touch for feels, taste for food, smell for avoiding trash, hearing for sounds, and, of course, eyesight for visualizing the very waves making up that …read more #hacking #projects

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Seeing Sound For Under $200

There are five general senses: touch for feels, taste for food, smell for avoiding trash, hearing for sounds, and, of course, eyesight for visualiz...