This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard to Fix John Elliot V | usagoldmines.com
Over on ’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2...
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Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by...
The Many Questions and Challenges with DIY Hydroelectric Generators Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity...
PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience John Elliot V | usagoldmines.com
has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed...
Tired of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning the Hot Glue Gun Tyler August | usagoldmines.com
Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and...
Banks Report Explosion In New Scam Designed To Make Customers ‘Panic’ Before Draining Their Accounts Daily Hodl Staff | usagoldmines.com
Some of the world’s top banks are reporting a sharp uptick in a new form...
Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons....
The use of Ultrasound to take on Cancerous Tumors Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled...
How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans go AWOL Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew...
Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby...
Powering on a 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began...
Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or...
Close-Up Look Reveals that Raindrops Are More Erosive than Assumed Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly...
Tying up Loose Ends on a Rope-based Robot Actuator Aaron Beckendorf | usagoldmines.com
One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of...
Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″...
Putting the M in a UNI-T MSO Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
points out that the Uni-T MSO oscilloscopes have a logic analyzer built in...
Hands On WIth The Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come...
Popular Science Experiments in Sound During the 19th-Century John Elliot V | usagoldmines.com
Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain...
2025: As The Hardware World Turns Tom Nardi | usagoldmines.com
If you’re reading this, that means you’ve successfully made it through 2025! Allow us to...
GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository, following a DMCA takedown request from the...