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Low-Power Challenge: Making an Analog Clock Into a Calendar With a 50-Year Life
You have to be pretty ambitious to modify a clock to run for 50 years on a single battery. You…
SheepShaver: A Cross-Platform Tool For Retro Enthusiasts
The world of desktop computing has coalesced into what is essentially a duopoly, with Windows machines making up the bulk…
This Week in Security: USB Boom! Acropalypse, and a Bitcoin Heist
We’ve covered a lot of sketchy USB devices over the years. And surely you know by now, if you find…
Enormous Metal Sculpture Becomes an Antenna
Those who have worked with high voltage know well enough that anything can be a conductor at high enough voltages.…
Grow Your Own Brain Electrodes
Bioelectronics has been making great strides in recent years, but interfacing rigid electrical components with biological systems that are anything…
Ondol: Korean Underfloor Heating
One of the many aspects of the modern world we often take for granted is the very technology that keeps…
ISA over TPM to Your PC
Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t…
A Little Chess with Your Timepiece
Some things remain classics, even after centuries, and chess and watches have certainly stood the test of time. decided to…
Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework
In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route…