Category: Tech

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe next time you use a tool like ChatGPT or Perplexity, stop and count the total words being generated to fulfill your request. Each word

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe late and lamented [Bob Pease] was one of a select band of engineers, each of whose authority in the field of analogue integrated circuit

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen picking operating systems for a closer look here in the Daily Drivers series, the aim has not been to merely pick the next well-known

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets that

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match. Many badges these days embrace

Reading Time: 7 minutesAI has so thoroughly colonized every technical discipline that it’s becoming hard to organize items of interest in Radar Trends. Should a story go under

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the menacing sound effect any

Reading Time: < 1 minuteModern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there are ways to get

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many

Reading Time: 2 minutes[Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode and wire it up right,

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen it comes to soldering on a PCB it almost always helps to have some way to hold the board off your workbench, allowing leads

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platforms with arms. That’s where