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via Hackaday: A Field Guide to the North American Substation
Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long…
Read morevia Hackaday: Fighting the Scourge of “Screwdriver Mange”
We’ve all got our favorite hand tools, and while the selection criteria are usually pretty…
Read morevia Hackaday: Reverse-Engineering the AMD Secure Processor Inside the CPU
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become…
Read morevia Hackaday: Citizen Scientists Spot Super Fast Moving Object in NASA Data
When you were five, you probably spotted your best friend running at “a million miles…
Read morevia Hackaday: Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer
When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple…
Read morevia Hackaday: A Modern Take on an Old Language
Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. For example,…
Read morevia Hackaday: Your Data in the Cloud
I try not to go off on security rants in the newsletter, but this week…
Read morevia Hackaday: Cost-Optimized Raspberry Pi 5 Released With 2 GB RAM and D0 Stepping
When the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC was released last year, it came in 4 and…
Read morevia Hackaday: WOW! It Wasn’t Aliens After All!
There may not be many radio astronomy printouts that have achieved universal fame, but the…
Read morevia Hackaday: Unusual Tool Gets an Unusual Repair
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is…
Read morevia Hackaday: Handheld Oscilloscope Meter Reviewed
We live in a time where there’s virtually no excuse not to have some kind…
Read morevia Hackaday: Historical Microsoft and Apple Artifacts Among First Christie’s Auction of Living Computers Museum
Recently the Christie’s auction house released the list of items that would be going up…
Read morevia Hackaday: Lunar Lander Game Asks You to Write a Simple Autopilot
Everyone likes a good lunar landing simulator, and [Dominic Doty] wrote a fun take on…
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