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Keeping Old Wi-Fi Radios Alive With Stream Conversion ift.tt/IsEyCr8

Keeping Old Wi-Fi Radios Alive With Stream Conversion

There are plenty of Wi-Fi radios out there that were built over the last two decades or so. However, many older models are now becoming less useful because many internet radio stations are switchin…

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KiCad… In The Browser? ift.tt/hXP9VMS

KiCad… In The Browser?

KiCad is a useful tool for designing printed circuit boards, but it’s of no use to you if you can’t install it on the computer you’re on. To get around that, [Akshay Rukade] has w…

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Japan Launches Mission to Study Martian Moon ift.tt/053RkeY

Japan Launches Mission To Study Martian Moon

Humanity has been sending robotic explorers to Mars since the 1970s, and for our efforts we’ve been rewarded with not only incredible imagery of the Red Planet’s magnificent desolation,…

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Floating-Point Addition and Subtraction on Intel’s 8087 ift.tt/iSgZrUY

Floating-Point Addition And Subtraction On Intel’s 8087

Although you can do basic floating point format operations like addition and subtraction just fine on any CPU, having specialized hardware for it can provide a significant speed boost. Here Intel&#…

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Trying to Get Linux Running on a Nokia E6 ift.tt/ZJ7csh9

Trying To Get Linux Running On A Nokia E6

The Nokia E6 is a smartphone from back in the old days when Symbian was a thing. [fluffleswaffled] has been doing the work to get the ancient handset running Linux instead, because that’s ult…

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Reading QR Codes by Hand ift.tt/UDIaAbW

Reading QR Codes By Hand

QR codes can be a handy way to send a link or contact details without all that tedious mucking about with typing in a link, but they aren’t very useful without a smartphone to decode them. [N…

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Making a Five-Segment Display with Platinum-Titanium Cathodes ift.tt/sbjitzd

Making A Five-Segment Display With Platinum-Titanium Cathodes

Before the advent of effective semiconductor LEDs many display types existed to display things like numbers and other characters. The Nixie tube is a well-known one, along with VFDs and there are a…

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Every Type of Current Sensor Explained ift.tt/Aw0UNsf

Every Type Of Current Sensor Explained

Measuring electric currents is an essential element of many electrical systems, but doing so in a way that is as nonintrusive as possible is not an easy problem to solve. Due to this we got a wide …

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Sega Genesis Controllers on the Philips CD-i ift.tt/JUgkMuW

Sega Genesis Controllers On The Philips CD-i

The Philips CD-i was not popular upon its launch in 1991, and is barely acknowledged today. In the opinion of [MattKC], it had a particularly poor selection of controllers, too, and it’s ofte…

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Knitting Yarn and Filament with FilaLoom ift.tt/okLq1A3

Knitting Yarn And Filament With FilaLoom

We don’t generally think of 3D printing and knitting in the same sentence. One uses threads and fine motor control, while the other requires great knowledge of pressing buttons and plastics. That s…

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Building a Simple Internet Radio ift.tt/OcVbNzZ

Building A Simple Internet Radio

Broadcast radio isn’t as popular as it once was, its popularity suffering in turn due to technologies like MP3 players and music streaming services. If you don’t fancy either of those, …

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The Age of Altair ift.tt/HdkEXi9

The Age Of Altair

I recently got the Amazon Christmas toy book in the mail, and it is definitely the modern version of the Sears Christmas Wish Book for last century’s youth. Or at least the majority of last c…

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Clotty The Custom Period Tracker Can, Of Course, Run DOOM ift.tt/Z7O0ITc

Clotty The Custom Period Tracker Can, Of Course, Run DOOM

[kati]’s Clotty might run DOOM and game-ify the menstrual tracking process with a playful Tamagotchi-like aspect, but don’t let that distract you. It is, at its heart, a personal menstr…

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A Stereo Vision Board For Hardware Hackers ift.tt/9OJABb2

A Stereo Vision Board For Hardware Hackers

It’s plenty easy to do lots of vision tasks with a single camera, but using two cameras gives you lots of magical abilities, like depth perception! If you’d like to experiment with ster…

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5 GHz Drone Video, With An ESP32 ift.tt/0kvEuAj

5 GHz Drone Video, With An ESP32

With the ESP32 series of microcontrollers having had hidden software-defined radio (SDR) facility revealed, we’re now moving on from the announcement into projects making use of the finding. …

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Using Ultrasound and Microbubbles to Make Tiny Devices ift.tt/MAcvkRa

Using Ultrasound And Microbubbles To Make Tiny Devices

Although we generally do not look at bubbles in fluids as more than a curiosity – if not an outright annoyance – in certain contexts they can be very useful. If you can namely control t…

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Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler Gain Dynamic Package Support ift.tt/ZRaTWNP

Lazarus And The Free Pascal Compiler Gain Dynamic Package Support

If you have developed in Pascal or Delphi in the past decades, you’re probably familiar with the Lazarus IDE that provides an interface to the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC), much like DelphiR…

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Going Whole-Hog on a First Satellite Ground Station ift.tt/QP4gc8L

Going Whole-Hog On A First Satellite Ground Station

When most radio enthusiasts start trying to pick up signals from satellites, they might put together a quick-and-dirty Yagi antenna and try to catch a repeater as is passes overhead, or they might …

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NASA’s Lunar Grounding Challenge is a Real Buzz ift.tt/9jeqM5d

NASA’s Lunar Grounding Challenge Is A Real Buzz

One could make a joke about how an astronaut walking on the lunar surface is rather akin to a cat walking on the carpet in the living room, but out in space the resulting triboelectric discharge ca…

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Spreading Life to Bleached Coral ift.tt/h2t4Tpw

Spreading Life To Bleached Coral

Coral bleaching is a major problem for ocean ecosystems as the ocean gets warmer. Researchers at Stanford have found a new method for regenerating bleached corals. Scientists working on coral found…

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