These days, pedometers are integrated into just about every smartwatch on the market, as well as a few of the dumber ones too. tracking step counts has ended up being a worldwide pastime, as well as at times, a competitive one. However, any type of such competition can quickly be gamed, as demonstrated by [Luc […]
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TECH IN ordinary SIGHT: EYEGLASSESTECH IN ordinary SIGHT: EYEGLASSES
June 27, 2022June 27, 2022
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Glasses wearers, try a bit experiment. Take off your glasses as well as look at this page or, at least, at something you can’t see well without your glasses. now envision if you resided in a time where there was nothing to be done about your vision. If you wear contacts or you have great […]
DEEP woods CABIN; ONE MAN, HIS TOOLS, and A video camera ON A TRIPODDEEP woods CABIN; ONE MAN, HIS TOOLS, and A video camera ON A TRIPOD
June 27, 2022June 27, 2022
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We remember watching Alone in the Woods years ago on Public Television. It’s a story of a self-sufficient man named [Dick Proenneke] who loved the outdoors and chose to live alone in the Alaskan wilderness. It’s a amazing story made much more so by the film footage he made to file his experience. That teaser doesn’t do […]
HACKING A HEATING PADHACKING A HEATING PAD
June 23, 2022June 23, 2022
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[Bob] as well as his other half utilize a bed heating pad. In the winter, they normally turn it on about an hour before bedtime so the bed is great as well as warm. The issue is, if they unintentionally leave it on, they’ll get up a few hours later: overheated. What they needed was […]
THE WORLD’S very first AUTONOMOUS FLAPPING MAVTHE WORLD’S very first AUTONOMOUS FLAPPING MAV
June 23, 2022June 23, 2022
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[Ferdinand] sent in a idea about the extremely cool DelFly Explorer, developed by researchers at Netherlands’ Delft university of Technology, which is declared to be the world’s very first autonomous, flapping micro air vehicle. While it doesn’t fly like a normal ornithopter, the specs will persuade you not to care. It has an 28 cm wingspan as […]
OUTPUTTING text ON A PAPER TAPE deviceOUTPUTTING text ON A PAPER TAPE device
June 20, 2022June 20, 2022
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Back before the days of 8 inch floppy disks, storing computer programs was much much more primitive than even a stack of punch cards. The earliest general function computers utilized paper tape, a strip of paper with punched holes designating a 0 or a 1. Thankfully for the computer scientists of the day, these paper […]
HOW TO PLAY A game kid EMULATOR ON CHROMECASTHOW TO PLAY A game kid EMULATOR ON CHROMECAST
June 19, 2022June 19, 2022
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It’s small, it’s blurry, but it’s working. Here’s a proof of concept for playing emulators on a Chromecast which uses the original game kid as an example. Notice that there are two screens shown in the demo. Out of focus in the background is the television with the Chromecast displaying the game play. In the foreground is […]
REPLACEMENT MOTHERBOARD BRINGS new lease OF LIFE TO classic THINKPADSREPLACEMENT MOTHERBOARD BRINGS new lease OF LIFE TO classic THINKPADS
June 18, 2022June 18, 2022
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“They don’t make them like they used to.” It might be a cliché, it might not even be entirely true, but there’s something special about owning a piece of hardware that was built to a much higher conventional than a lot of of its contemporaries, whether it’s that bulletproof Benz from 1992 or that odd […]
ELINCHROM EL-SKYPORT TRIGGERED BY ARDUINOELINCHROM EL-SKYPORT TRIGGERED BY ARDUINO
June 18, 2022June 18, 2022
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[Toby] has an Elinchrom EL-Skyport, which is a wireless flash trigger. He decided to see if he might activate it utilizing an Arduino, as well as came up with a nice proof of concept. This little gadget was not indicated to be individual serviceable, as can be seen in what [Toby] uncovered while taking it […]
RETROTECHTACULAR: THE TRANSISTOR (1953 FILM)RETROTECHTACULAR: THE TRANSISTOR (1953 FILM)
June 16, 2022June 16, 2022
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If we cast our minds back to the early years of the transistor, the year that is always quoted is 1947, during which a Bell Labs team developed the first practical germanium point-contact transistor. They would go on to be granted the Nobel prize for their work in 1956, but the universal adoption of their […]