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Viktor’s Amazing 4-bit Processor
This is an impressive feat: designing and building your own processor. I’ve been a software guy all my life. However, I was always fascinated by electronics, and part of my success as a programmer was due to my thorough understanding … Continue reading
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The Lockdown
Engadget has a fascinating series of articles on lock security and lock picking. The most popular locking mechanism in the world utilizes the pin tumbler design, first developed 4000 years ago in Egypt and then rediscovered and perfected a century … Continue reading
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Meet cGrid, the real-time P2P punisher
A new tool has been announced in the piracy arms race. This tool can be deployed by network administrators to monitor network traffic in order to identify people using P2P services, and can automatically boot them off the network. The … Continue reading
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Gadget Fetishes
Gizmodo has posted a great rant on people with more money than sense. And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the … Continue reading
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Jeep® Waterfall
This computer-controlled waterfall is simply stunning. Link (via Digg)
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Bill Gates on the Future of DRM
Bill Gates made some interesting comments regarding DRM during a recent meeting with a group of bloggers. According to TechCrunch: Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which “causes too much pain for legitmate … Continue reading
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Blank DVD Media Quality Guide
This is a useful guide to check before purchasing cheap DVD media. Not all media is good. In fact, with the high influx of cheap media from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, I’d venture to say most media is bad. … Continue reading
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James Kim found deceased
This is tragic news for the Kim Family. If you haven’t been following the story, James, a senior editor at CNet, and his family were reported missing when both James and his wife, Kati, failed to show up for work … Continue reading
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Make: The open source gift guide
Make Magazine has posted a great list of open source hardware and software for Makers. There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy – but a lot of time you actually don’t own … Continue reading
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Ad supported laser etched laptop
Leah Culver funded the purchase of a new Macbook Pro by selling ad space on the cover for $150 per square inch. The ads were then laser etched at her workplace. Link (via MAKE: Blog) Cool video of the laser … Continue reading
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Teen Goes Nuclear
A 17-year-old amateur scientist has built his own Fusor. In the basement of his parents’ Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren’t privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has … Continue reading
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Programmable Z80 Microcomputer
This is a fantastic homemade computer project. Look at the schematic for this thing. Yikes! This is an actual computer, built completely from scratch. I began the project in the spring of 2006, while I was taking a course on … Continue reading
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Wacom Wax Off – DIY Cintiq build
Here’s an interesting write up for a project to build a Cintiq-like interactive pen tablet. This is hybrid screen/graphics tablet which makes me drool. The price however makes me weep, £2000ish for the 20†version. They also do a thing … Continue reading
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Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2006
Another list of tech innovations of the past year. The world is better in 100 different ways this year. On these pages you’ll find a collection of the year’s most stunning innovations. The future is now–and it looks good. Link … Continue reading
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The Computer/Domino Connection
This is a fascinating though useless diversion on how to perform basic computations using dominoes. My friend Cory and I were sitting around one day, as we often do, contemplating the mysteries of the universe, when one of us brought … Continue reading
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Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2006
Time’s list of their favorite inventions of the year. Link (via Digg)
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The Firefox Kid
IEEE Spectrum has written a nice article on Blake Ross, one of the co-founders of the Firefox project, and on what he is working on next. But there were others in the cubicle trenches who hadn’t conceded the browser war … Continue reading
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Building a Better Battery
Wired has posted an article that explains why lithium-ion batteries explode, and what might replace them in the future. But such technical excuses sidestep the fact that flammability and heat intolerance are long-standing problems that have plagued Li-ion batteries since … Continue reading
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Bugs Aren’t Features
This is a rather interesting post on the current state of the software industry, and it has sparked a lively discussion in the comments section. These things are fairly typical of the modern relationship with computers. I’ve gotten so used … Continue reading
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How-To: Build your own HD projector
Engadget has put up part 1 of a how-to for building an HD projector. Been eyeballing those sweet new high definition projectors? So have we. We’re not going to feel guilty for it either, we know what we like. But … Continue reading
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