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NPAPI And The Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us …read more

The Time Clock Has Stood The Test Of Time

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish time cards and everything. …read more

How Do PAL And NTSC Really Work?

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humble microcontroller to the limit of its capability. …read more

The Rise And Fall Of The In-Car Fax Machines

Once upon a time, a car phone was a great way to signal to the world that you were better than everybody else. It was a clear sign that you had money …read more

Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background …read more

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  • Fixing A KS Jive DAB Radio With A Dash Of Fake ICs

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    By Maya Posch | January 13, 2026

    The exciting part about repairing consumer electronics is that you are never quite sure what you are going to find. In a recent video by [Mick] of Buy it Fix …read more

  • The ARCTURUS Computer Developed At Sydney University In The 1960s

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    By John Elliot V | January 12, 2026

    [State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of Australia. ARCTURUS was a research computer system developed on a …read more

  • Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Mold

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    By Al Williams | January 12, 2026

    It turns out, that mold is everywhere. The problem is when it becomes too much, as mold infestations can have serious health effects on both humans and animals. Remediation is …read more

  • Optimizing A Desktop, 3D Printed Wind Tunnel

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    By Tyler August | January 12, 2026

    You’ve heard of wind tunnels– get some airflow going over a thingy, put some some smoke on, and voila! Flow visualization. How hard could it be? Well, as always, the …read more

  • The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming

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    By Maya Posch | January 12, 2026

    Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately seems …read more

  • Michelson Interferometer Comes Home Cheap

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    By Al Williams | January 12, 2026

    We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have one and don’t know …read more

  • Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Cheap-O Keyboard

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    By Kristina Panos | January 12, 2026

    All right, I’ll cut to the chase: Cheap03xD is mainly so cheap because the PCB falls within a 10 x 10 cm footprint. The point was to make a very …read more

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