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- Cruise Ship-Lengthening Surgery: All the Cool Companies Are Doing Ithackaday.com Cruise Ship-Lengthening Surgery: All The Cool Companies Are Doing It
The number of people going on cruises keeps rising year over year, with the number passengers carried increasing from just over 3.7 million in 1990 to well over 28 million in 2023. This has meant a…
- Using a Potato as Photographic Recording Surfacehackaday.com Using A Potato As Photographic Recording Surface
Following in the tracks of unconventional science projects, [The Thought Emporium] seeks to answer the question of whether you can use a potato as a photograph recording medium. This is less crazy …
- hackaday.com Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration
After 47 years it’s little wonder that the hydrazine-powered thrusters of the Voyager 1, used to orient the spacecraft in such a way that its 3.7 meter (12 foot) diameter antenna always point…
- hackaday.com The Apple Watch As An Ammeter
Your shiny new personal electronic device is likely to be designed solely as an app platform to run the products of faceless corporations, so the story goes, and therefore has an ever smaller hacki…
- hackaday.com IBM’s 1969 Educational Computing
IBM got their PCs and PS/2 computers into schools in the 1980s and 1990s. We fondly remember educational games like Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain. However, IBM had been trying to get into the ed…
- A Look Inside a DIY Rocket Motorhackaday.com A Look Inside A DIY Rocket Motor
[Joe Barnard] made a solid propellant rocket motor, and as one does in such situations, he put it through its paces on the test stand. The video below is not about the test, nor is it about the mot…
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 800: Champagning the Ladybird Browserhackaday.com FLOSS Weekly Episode 800: Champagning The Ladybird Browser
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird, the new browser in development from the ground up. It was started as part of SerenityOS, and has since taken on …
- hackaday.com Lithium-Ion Battery Hotswapping, Polarity, Holders
Everyone loves, and should respect, lithium-ion batteries. They pack a ton of power and can make our projects work better. I’ve gathered a number of tips and tricks about using them over the …
- Hacking an NVIDIA CMP 170HX Crypto GPU for EM Sim Workhackaday.com Hacking An NVIDIA CMP 170HX Crypto GPU For EM Sim Work
A few years back NVIDIA created a dedicated cryptocurrency mining GPU, the CMP 170HX. This was a heavily restricted version of its flagship A100 datacenter accelerator, using the same GA100 chip. I…
- hackaday.com Supercon 2023: Aleksa Bjelogrlic Dives Into Circuits That Measure Circuits
Oscilloscopes are one of our favorite tools for electronics development. They make the hidden dances of electrons visually obvious to us, and give us a clear understanding of what’s actually …
