Repairing a Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t snap it up if the price is …read more #hacking #projects

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Repairing A Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator

There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn&#8217...

This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard to Fix Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977 which started the personal …read more #hacking #projects

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This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard To Fix

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Tri...

Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since its discovery by [Michael …read more #hacking #projects

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Faraday Effects Emerging From The Optical Magnetic Field

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (F...

The Many Questions and Challenges with DIY Hydroelectric Generators The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus …read more #hacking #projects

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The Many Questions And Challenges With DIY Hydroelectric Generators

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine...

Tired of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning the Hot Glue Gun Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the …read more #hacking #projects

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Tired Of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning The Hot Glue Gun

Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You tur...

PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience [AmiCube] has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed to replace the 68000 CPU in a MiniMig — a recreation of the original Amiga …read more #hacking #projects

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PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience

[AmiCube] has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed to replace the 68000 CPU in a Mini...

Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background …read more #hacking #projects

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Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something i...

The use of Ultrasound to take on Cancerous Tumors As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect our long-term prospects of …read more #hacking #projects

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The Use Of Ultrasound To Take On Cancerous Tumors

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin ...

How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans go AWOL It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading freight if any of them know how to fly a plane. …read more #hacking #projects

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How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans Go AWOL

It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading fre...

Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few hundred dollars, …read more #hacking #projects

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Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions

Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few h...