FPGA Dev Kit Unofficially Brings MSX Standard Back In the 1980s there were an incredible number of personal computers of all shapes, sizes, and operating system types, and there was very little interoperability. Unlike today’s Windows-Mac duopoly, this …read more #hacking #projects
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FPGA Dev Kit Unofficially Brings MSX Standard Back
In the 1980s there were an incredible number of personal computers of all shapes, sizes, and operating system types, and there was very little inte...
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Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again [Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some …read more #hacking #projects
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Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] wa...
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Teardown of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping …read more #hacking #projects
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Teardown Of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System
Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the...
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The Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958 [Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and …read more #hacking #projects
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The Setun Was A Ternary Computer From The USSR In 1958
[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was devel...
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Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, and Other AC Surprises While we’re 100 years past Edison’s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap one’s head around. It’s just …read more #hacking #projects
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Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, And Other AC Surprises
While we’re 100 years past Edison’s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap on...
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Printing in Metal with DIY SLM An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as tends to be the …read more #hacking #projects
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Printing In Metal With DIY SLM
An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as ...
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Zork Running on 4-Bit Intel Computer Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any computer of the …read more #hacking #projects
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Zork Running On 4-Bit Intel Computer
Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any co...
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Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11 Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this …read more #hacking #projects
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Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11
Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and l...
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A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate but Possibly Low Cost For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative investment and partially because other speculative …read more #hacking #projects
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A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate But Possibly Low Cost
For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative inv...
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Qron0b: a Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietly snickered at …read more #hacking #projects
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Qron0b: A Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch
Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietl...
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