The Apple I is the stuff of legend. created and marketed in 1976 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, it was the very first product released by what would become today’s multi-trillion-dollar maker of iPhones and iMacs. With about 60 original ones known to exist today, prices at auction are frequently in the $300,000 range, […]
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A MAGIC LIGHT BULB FOR ALL YOUR bright ideasA MAGIC LIGHT BULB FOR ALL YOUR bright ideas
May 7, 2022May 7, 2022
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[Uri Shaked]’s lamentation over the breaking of his smart bulb was brief as it was inspiring — now he had a perfectly valid excuse to hack it into a magic light bulb. The first step was disassembling the bulb and converting it to run on a tiny, 130mAh battery. inside the bulb’s base, the power […]
3D PRINTERING: MAKING A thing WITH BLENDER, part II3D PRINTERING: MAKING A thing WITH BLENDER, part II
May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
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So you have a 3D printer as well as requirement to print something of your own design. That’s a issue if you don’t understand exactly how to produce as well as edit 3D objects. In this post, we’re continuing our previous misadventures with Blender by making a ‘thing’ split from a extremely old book on drafting. […]
WHAT THE inside of A PNEUMATIC carry SYSTEM looks likeWHAT THE inside of A PNEUMATIC carry SYSTEM looks like
May 2, 2022May 2, 2022
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While many of us are familiar with pneumatic carry systems by their use at drive-up bank windows, these systems are also typically found in hospitals ferrying samples around. When [Aidan] was in the hospital, he asked how this series of tubes routed samples from numerous different floors to the lab and back again. Well, give […]
GLOBAL space BALLOON challengeGLOBAL space BALLOON challenge
April 30, 2022April 30, 2022
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trying to find a reason to put up a balloon and payload into near-space? Not that one’s necessary, but the global space Balloon challenge has got a variety of good reasons for you to do so, in the form of prizes and swag from their sponsors. choose highest altitude, best photograph, longest ground track, best […]
THE NO-MCU fan CONTROLLERTHE NO-MCU fan CONTROLLER
April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
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The default for any control project here in 2019 was to reach for a microcontroller. Such are their low cost and ubiquity that they can be used to replicate what might once have needed some extra circuitry, with the minimum of parts. but here we are at the end of 2021, and of course microcontrollers […]
WHEN DELL built A NETBOOK WITH AN X86 SYSTEM-ON-MODULEWHEN DELL built A NETBOOK WITH AN X86 SYSTEM-ON-MODULE
April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
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just like with pre-touchscreen cellphones having fancy innovative features that everyone’s forgotten about, there’s areas that laptop makers used to venture in but no longer dare touch. On Twitter, [Kiwa] talks a fascinating attempt by Dell to make laptops with user-replaceable CPU+RAM modules. In 2008, Dell released the Inspiron tiny 1210, with its CPU, chipset […]
SWAPPED dash MODULE provides FORD MAVERICK AN upgradeSWAPPED dash MODULE provides FORD MAVERICK AN upgrade
April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
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Ford is seeking to make their new Maverick compact truck stand out, as well as so far, it seems to be working. Not only is it remarkably inexpensive for a brand-new hybrid, truck or otherwise, however Ford actively encourages owners to customize their new ride. From standardized installing points throughout the cabin meant for 3D […]
ACOUSTIC changing TRANSISTORS: A new type of ELECTRONICS?ACOUSTIC changing TRANSISTORS: A new type of ELECTRONICS?
April 25, 2022April 25, 2022
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have you ever heard of topological insulators? These are exotic materials where electrical energy flows only on the surface with extremely bit loss. Now, according to IEEE Spectrum, scientists at Harvard have utilized the exact same idea to produce a transistor for noise waves as well as it may be a new branch of electronics. […]
GIVING flip DOTS THE OIL treatment TO shut THEM UPGIVING flip DOTS THE OIL treatment TO shut THEM UP
April 24, 2022April 24, 2022
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flip dot screens are remarkable — as well poor it’s so difficult to discover big panels to play around with, however that’s for one more article. [Pierre Muth] has been working to discover different as well as fascinating things to finish with these flip dots, as well as he just recently explored exactly how you […]