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E-paper screens have opened up a wide variety of novel use cases that just wouldn’t work with the higher power draw of an LCD ...
Here at Hackaday HQ, we all have opinions about the way we like to do things. And no surprise, this extends to the way we ...
As the timebase for a clock, almost anything with a periodic oscillation can be used. Traditionally, that meant a pendulum, ...
[naturejab] shows off his solar powered pyrolysis machine which can convert scrap plastic into fuel. According to the video, ...
As the march of time continues on, it becomes harder and harder to play older video games on hardware. Part of this is ...
Sometimes it seems like there’s nothing Emacs can’t do. Which, of course, is why some people love it, and some people hate it ...
When [Tom Nardi] reported on NOAA’s statement that many of its polar birds were no longer recommended for use, he mentioned ...
‘Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can take quite some of your time and attention to pull voices from ...
Despite the availability of ready-made displays never being better, there are still some hardy experimenters who take on the challenge of making their own. In [Ben Holmen]’s case the display … ...
Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system. [David Hunter] has seen fit to rectify that with an add-on module as his ent… ...
Imagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point. Using the techniques of modelling light transport, [okooptics] has sho… ...
For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best way to make sure the correct time is known is with the WWVB … ...