Category: Tech

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou would think detecting lightning would be easy. Each lightning bolt has a staggering amount of power, and, clearly, you can hear the results on

Reading Time: 9 minutesThis article was initially published as two posts on Drew Breunig’s blog. He’s been kind enough to share them here. Back in May, Ásgeir Thor

Reading Time: 5 minutesAfter the fire and fury of liftoff, when a spacecraft is sailing silently through space, you could be forgiven for thinking the hard part of

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen buying used cars there are plenty of ways to check on their history. In many countries there are systems, like Carfax for parts of

Reading Time: 2 minutesAmong this crowd, it’s safe to say that the original 68000 Macintosh computers need no introduction, but it’s possible some of you aren’t familiar with

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs part of his multi-year project to build a quantum computer, hacakday.io poster [skywo1f] has shared with us his most recent accomplishment — a Nuclear

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re probably all familiar with adding wood dust, hemp and carbon fibers to PLA filament, but there are so many other fillers one could add.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere was a time when all the cool kids had a 45 RPM record player. [RF Burns] picked up a 1950s-era player from  RCA. However,

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are looking for the perfect instrument to start a biological horror show in our age of AI, you have come to the right

Reading Time: 2 minutesA man named [Jim Valvano] once said “There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.”

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is virtually a rite of passage for C programmers to realize that they can write their own cooperative multitasking system. C is low-level enough,