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Printing with Glass Fiber Filament
[ModBot] has been trying different engineering plastics for 3D printing. He recently looked at carbon fiber mixed with PET, but this time, he...
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Clockhands For Faster CPU Execution
When you design your first homebrew CPU, you probably are happy if it works and you don’t worry as much about performance. But, eventually,...
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Impact of Imperfect Timekeeping on Quantum Control And Computing
In classical control theory, both open-loop and closed-loop control systems are commonly used. These systems are well understood and rather...
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Nanobots Self Replicate
Hey, what if you could have a factory that makes robots that is run by… robots? This is hardly an original thought, but we are a long way...
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How The First iPod Was Blown Wide Open
If someone makes a device, someone else will want to break it open and run their own software on it. When the original manufacturer is Apple...
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Pico Makes a So-So Keyboard Neat-O
When someone gives you a crappy little toy keyboard, what can you do? Sadly plunk on the thing one note at a time? Well yes, but that’s not...
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Degrees of Freedom, But for Whom?
Opening up this week’s podcast , I told Kristina about my saga repairing our German toilet valve. I’m American, and although I’ve lived here...
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Marconi Circuit Magnification Meter Gives Up Secrets
[Thomas] picked up a Marconi TF1245 with dents and dings. We have to admit that we had not heard of a “ circuit magnification meter ,” but...
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When Is A 6502 Not Quite A 6502?
We all know that fake chips are a risk when it comes to buying parts on eBay or from Chinese markets such as AliExpress. It’s a simple enough...
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A Ham Radio Answering Machine
For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with...
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Cold War Spying And The Questionable Use Of Smuggled Blueprints In Developing Supersonic Airliners
Three views of a Boeing 2707-300. Although spying is a time-honored tradition, the sheer scope of it reached a fever pitch during the...
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MOSFETs — the Big Lie
How many terminals does a MOSFET have? Trick question since most have three leads, even though there are really four connections to the...
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Metronome Flashes and Vibrates To the Beat
Annoying though they can be, if you play any kind of instrument, you will definitely benefit from using a metronome. While many of them thock...
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Switching Converter for EEPROM Programmer Taxes Solderless Breadboard
We all know that solderless breadboards have their limitations. All that stray capacitance can play hell with circuits, especially high-speed...
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Check Your Board: Call For Submissions
As both beginning hackers and Silicon Valley investors alike keep discovering, there are a lot of differences between hardware and software....