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Australia’s Silliac Computer

When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the wor...

Ditto That

In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives...

MIT Wants You to Secure Your Hardware Designs

When you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of...

Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park & Pentagon Code ...

On 31 March of this year we had to bid farewell to Charlotte Elizabeth “Betty” W...

A Very Trippy Look at Microsoft’s Beginnings

It’s not often you’ll see us singing the praises of Microsoft on these pages, bu...

Handheld 18650 Analyzer Scopes Out Salvaged Cells

You can salvage lithium 18650 cells from all sorts of modern gadgets, from dispo...

The Magic Touch: A 555 Touch Switch

There seems to be nothing a 555 can’t do. We’ve seen it before, but [electronzap...

Monitor Your Smart Plugs on the Command Line

The plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportu...

One Book to Boot Them All

Somewhere in the universe, there’s a place that lists every x86 operating system...

Programmer’s Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions

Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 827: Yt-dlp, Sometimes You Can’t S...

This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Bashonly about yt-dlp, the audio/video do...

Supercon 2024: Rethinking Body Art With LEDs

Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying...

70 DIY Synths on One Webpage

If you want to dip your toes into the deep, deep water of synth DIY but don’t kn...

Australia’s Steady March Towards Space

The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a ...

The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare

Getting a look at the internals of a garden variety “wall wart” isn’t the sort o...

A Toothbrush Hacked, in Three Parts

It’s official, we’re living in the future. Certainly that’s the only explanation...

Why the LM741 Sucks

First of all, we’d like to give a big shout-out to [Afrotechmods]! After a long ...

An Elegant Writer for a More Civilized Age

One of the most exciting trends we’ve seen over the last few years is the rise o...

A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised

Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, an...

Malfunctional Timekeeping With The Vetinari Clock

Lord Vetinari from the Discworld series is known for many things, but perhaps mo...

Shrinking Blinky As Far As Possible

Many of us know the basic Blink Arduino sketch, or have coded similar routines o...

The Everlasting Hunt For The Loch Ness Monster

When a Loch Ness Monster story appears at the start of April, it pays to check t...

Philadelphia Maker Faire Returns This Weekend

While there’s still a vaguely robot-shaped hole in our heart from the loss of th...

On Egyptian Pyramids and Why It’s Definitely Aliens

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites ex...

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