The Great Redbox Cleanup: One Company is Hauling Away America’s Last DVD Kiosks Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Remember Redbox? Those bright red DVD vending machines that dotted every strip mall and supermarket...
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Nermeen Nabil Khear Power Supply With Benchtop Features Fits In Your Pocket Donald Papp | usagoldmines.com
’s PocketPD isn’t just adorably tiny — it also boasts some pretty useful features. It...
The Barcode Beast Likes Your CDs Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
Over the years we’ve featured many projects which attempt to replicate the feel of physical...
Tearing Down A SLA Printer With The Engineers Who Built It Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
Product teardowns are great, but getting an unfiltered one from the people who actually designed...
Hacking Haptics: The 19-Sensor Patch Bringing Touch to Life Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
On November 6th, Northwestern University introduced a groundbreaking leap in haptic technology, and it’s worth...
A Very Fast Camera Slider For The Glam Shot Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
High-speed photography with the camera on a fast-moving robot arm has become all the rage...
Crowdsourcing Ionosphere Data with Phones Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
How do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use...
Gloriously Impractical: Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.6 GHz Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The Raspberry Pi 5 board strapped to a liquid nitrogen cooler with an ElmorLabs AMPLE-X1...
Do You Dream in Color? Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
According to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, our language influences how we think and experience the world....
Exploring the Gakken FX Micro-Computer Alexander Rowsell | usagoldmines.com
Early computer kits aimed at learning took all sorts of forms, from full-fledged computer kits...
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Typo Kristina Panos | usagoldmines.com
Ceci n’est pas une keyboard, sure. But it’s keyboard-adjacent, and how. ’s wrists are...
The Laser Shadow Knows Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Normally, you think of things casting a shadow as being opaque. However, new research shows...
Ruined 1993 ThinkPad Tablet Brought Back From The Brink Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Collecting retrocomputers is fun, especially when you find fully-functional examples that you can plug in,...
Analog Shift Register Revealed Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Nowadays, if you want to delay an audio signal for, say, an echo or a...
Completing the UE1’s Paper Tape Reader and First Squiggles Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The UE1 tape reader in its nearly finished glory. Note the resistor to regulate the...
Hackaday Links: November 17, 2024 Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
A couple of weeks back, we covered an interesting method for prototyping PCBs using a...
US’s UFO-Hunting Aerial Surveillance System Detailed In Report Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is a category of observations...
Schooling ChatGPT on Antenna Theory Misconceptions Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough...
ESP32 hosts a USB keyboard in this Typewriter Adam Fabio | usagoldmines.com
Did you know the ESP32 can be a USB host? Well it can, and uses...
A Handheld Gaming PC With Steam Deck Vibes Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
Since its inception, the Steam Deck has been a bit of a game changer in...