Powering on a 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began pitching upgrading from telegrams to real-time voice calls. It wasn’t until the era of digital …read more #hacking #projects
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Powering On A 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System
The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began pitching upgrading from telegrams to real-time voice ca...
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Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who needs it — [Patrick …read more #hacking #projects
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Messing With JPEGs In A Text Editor Is Fun And Glitchy
If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who needs...
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Close-Up Look Reveals that Raindrops Are More Erosive than Assumed Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stuff will get wet and depending …read more #hacking #projects
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Close-Up Look Reveals That Raindrops Are More Erosive Than Assumed
Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stu...
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Tying up Loose Ends on a Rope-based Robot Actuator One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way to do this, at least on robots …read more #hacking #projects
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Tying Up Loose Ends On A Rope-based Robot Actuator
One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way t...
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Putting the M in a UNI-T MSO [Kerry Wong] points out that the Uni-T MSO oscilloscopes have a logic analyzer built in — that’s the MSO, or Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, part — but you have to add …read more #hacking #projects
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Putting The M In A UNI-T MSO
[Kerry Wong] points out that the Uni-T MSO oscilloscopes have a logic analyzer built in — that’s the MSO, or Mixed Signal Oscilloscope,...
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Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, …read more #hacking #projects
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Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer
The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive...
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Hands On WIth The Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, and when a new one comes out …read more #hacking #projects
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Hands On WIth The Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero
We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, and when a new one co...
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Popular Science Experiments in Sound During the 19th-Century Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain …read more #hacking #projects
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Popular Science Experiments In Sound During The 19th-Century
Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in...
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2025: As The Hardware World Turns If you’re reading this, that means you’ve successfully made it through 2025! Allow us to be the first to congratulate you — that’s another twelve months of skills learned, projects …read more #hacking #projects
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2025: As The Hardware World Turns
If you’re reading this, that means you’ve successfully made it through 2025! Allow us to be the first to congratulate you — that&...
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GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository, following a DMCA takedown request from the FFmpeg team. As of writing the affected repository remains unavailable. At the core of this …read more #hacking #projects
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GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request
Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository, following a DMCA takedown request from the FFmpeg team. As of writing the affected repo...
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