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One Method For Removing Future Space Junk
When sending satellites into space, the idea is to place them into as stable an orbit as possible in order…
Why LLaMa Is A Big Deal
You might have heard about LLaMa or maybe you haven’t. Either way, what’s the big deal? It’s just some AI…
Fresh PCBs For the Quickshot II and II Plus Joysticks
The Quickshot II was released by Spectravideo in 1983 for the Commodore 64 and compatible systems, with the Quickshot II…
Icicle Patterns With Custom Gantry
uses a number of custom-built linear rails used as gantries for various tools in the shop. The first is on…
A Studio Condenser Microphone For a Constrained Budget
As the Internet has turned so many of us into content creators, we’ve seen the quality of webcams and microphones…
Wireless Charging on a Massive Scale
Despite the increasing popularity of various electric vehicles, the limits of battery technology continue to be a bottleneck in their…
3D-Printed Parts Don’t Slow Down This Speedy Printer
Truth be told, we generally find speed sports to be a little boring. Whether it’s cars going around in circles…
BitTorrent for Language Models
In the old days of the Internet, FTP was sufficient for downloading the occasional file. But with the widespread use…
Info Sought On a Forgotten Cuban Radio
Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023,…