Retrotechtacular: RCA Loses Fight To IBM

If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation of America. Yet in modern times, the company is virtually forgotten for making large computers. …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Finding A Flat Tire

There was a time when wise older people warned you to check your tire pressure regularly. We never did, and would eventually wind up with a flat or, worse, a …read more

Marion Stokes Fought Disinformation With VCRs

You’ve likely at least heard of Marion Stokes, the woman who constantly recorded television for over 30 years. She comes up on reddit and other places every so often as …read more

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Ball-Joint Keyboard

Get a handle on this bad boy! Okay, so those voids are really more for airing out your palms, I’d imagine, because palm sweat sure is real — you should …read more

Tolerating Delay With DTN

The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up. Even if you are using WiFi in a …read more

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PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Can Almost Play Three-Quarters Of PS3 Games

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By Maya Posch | January 22, 2026

Although already having entered the territory of ‘retro gaming’, the Sony PlayStation 3 remains a notoriously hard to emulate game console. Much of this is to blame on its unique …read more
Ordering Pizza On The Nintendo Wii (Again)

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By Lewin Day | January 22, 2026

The Nintendo Wii first launched in 2006, and quickly became a fixture in living rooms around the world. It offered motion-controlled bowling, some basic internet features, and a pretty decent Zelda …read more
Binary And Digital Gradients For Telling Time

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By Ian Bos | January 21, 2026

Creative clocks are a dime a dozen, even clocks that use binary have been created in nearly every format. [typo] promises a clever adaptation to the binary format, and it …read more
Simulating Pots With LTSpice

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By Al Williams | January 21, 2026

One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, you might use a potentiometer or a pot to …read more
Driving A DAC Real Fast With A Microcontroller

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By Lewin Day | January 21, 2026

Normally, if you want to blast out samples to a DAC in a hurry, you’d rely on an FPGA, what with their penchant for doing things very quicky and in …read more
Repair And Reverse-Engineering Of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines

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By Maya Posch | January 21, 2026

Akin to the razor-and-blades model, capsule-based coffee machines are an endless grind of overpriced pods and cheaply made machines that you’re supposed to throw out and buy a new one …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 861: Big Databases With OpenRiak

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By Jonathan Bennett | January 21, 2026

This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is …read more

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