A Neat Trick To 3D Print With Fewer Warping Issues Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Warping! It messes up your 3D printed parts, turning them into a useless, dimensionally-inaccurate mess....
Scams , Hacks & Breaches
$18,883 Drained From Wells Fargo Account, Bank Says Reimbursement Not Happening, Customer Says She’s Leaving Daily Hodl Staff | usagoldmines.com
A Wells Fargo customer says she’s done with the bank after an impostor posing as...
Apple Forces the Signing of Applications in MacOS Sequoia 15.1 Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The dialogue that greets you when you try to open an unsigned application in MacOS...
Fix That Old Remote With Graphite Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
A button that stopped working has probably led to more than a few smashed remotes...
Building a Hydrogen-Powered Foam Dart Cannon Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Nerf blasters are fun and all, but they’re limited by the fact they have to...
The Nixie Tube Multimeter That Almost Made a Comeback Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
In a world of digital monotony, the Avo DA14 digital multimeter, with its vintage J...
Capturing Light In A Vacuum: The Magic Of Tube Video Cameras Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
Cameras are a funny rabbit hole to fall down as a hacker, because we have...
Producing An Exquisite Wooden Keyboard Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Keyboards! They’ve been almost universally made out of plastic since the dawn of the microcomputer...
This Week in Security: Playing Tag, Hacking Cameras, and More Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
Wired has a fascinating story this week, about the length Sophos has gone to for...
Fail of the Week: Subscription EV Charger Becomes Standalone, Briefly Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
At this point in the tech dystopia cycle, it’s no surprise that the initial purchase...
Combining Gyro Stabilisation With Weight Shift Balancing Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
Gyroscopes are perfect to damper short impulses of external forces but will eventually succumb if...
Cataract Surgery For An Old TV Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
TVs used to be round, and the GE M935AWL is a great example of that....
Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side....
Bakelite to the Future – A 1950s Bluetooth Headset Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
A decade ago, bought a Dutch ‘model 1950’ PTT (The Dutch Postal Service) rotary-dial...
Small Volumetric Lamp Spins at 6000 RPM Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Volumetric displays are simply cool. Throw some LEDs together, take advantage of persistence of vision,...
3D Printing With a Hot Glue Gun Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
Face it, we’ve all at some time or other looked at our hot glue guns,...
Supercon 2024 Flower SAO Badge Redrawing in KiCad Chris Lott | usagoldmines.com
Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As...
A Look Inside A Canadian Satellite TV Facility Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the ground facilities of a satellite TV...
Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft,...
Bogey Six O’clock!: The AN/APS-13 Tail Warning Radar Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
Although we think of air-to-air radar as a relatively modern invention, it first made its...