The Right Equipment Makes a Difference for Digital Oscilloscope Music
We all love our cheap digital oscilloscopes, and with good reason. But if there’s one place where analog scopes still shine, it’s anywhere you need X-Y mode. Digitally sampling the inputs and mapping...
View ArticleThe Right Benchmark for GPT
Dan Maloney wanted to design a part for 3D printing. OpenSCAD is a coding language for generating 3D objects. ChatGPT can write code. What could possibly go wrong? You should go read his article...
View ArticleVoyager Command Glitch Causes Unplanned Pause in Communications
Important safety tip: When you’re sending commands to the second-most-distant space probe ever launched, make really, really sure that what you send isn’t going to cause any problems. According to...
View ArticleAutomate Your Pin Header Chopping Chores Away
In most cases, cutting pin headers is a pretty simple job to tackle with a pair of cutters or even your bare fingers. But if you’re doing a lot of it, like for kitting up lots of projects for...
View ArticleMechanical Pencil Solder Feeder Hack
Want a better way to feed solder, but want to do it on the quick and cheap? Well [ptkrf] has a solution for you in an old instructables post we stumbled upon recently. You might have, or can...
View ArticleFiber-Infused Ink Allows 3D-Printed Heart Muscle To Beat
Illustration from Anatomy & Physiology, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/, Jun 19, 2013. What makes a body’s organs into what they are is more than just a grouping of...
View ArticleA Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System
Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any home computer in the 1980s. ZX Spectrum...
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