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The Death Of Baseload And Similar Grid Tropes

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard proclamations such as that ‘baseload is dead’ and …read more

Practice Makes Perfect: The Wet Dress Rehearsal

If you’ve been even casually following NASA’s return to the Moon, you’re likely aware of the recent Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the Artemis II mission. You probably also heard …read more

Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea

Let’s face it; remembering a bunch of passwords is the pits, and it’s just getting worse as time goes on. These days, you really ought to have a securely-generated key-smash …read more

PROFS: The Office Suite Of The 1980s

Today, we take office software suites for granted. But in the 1970s, you were lucky to have a typewriter and access to a photocopier. But in the early 1980s, IBM …read more

Is That Ancient Reel Of PLA Any Good?

When it comes to knowledge there are things you know as facts because you have experienced them yourself or had them verified by a reputable source, and there are things …read more

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  • Building The Most Simple Motor In Mostly LEGO

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    By Maya Posch | February 14, 2026

    Although [Jamie’s Brick Jams] has made many far more complicated motor design in the past, it’s nice to go back to the basics and make a motor that uses as …read more

  • Rock Sphere Machine Produces Off The Charts Satisfaction

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    By Donald Papp | February 13, 2026

    [Michigan Rocks] says he avoided making rock spheres for a long time on account of the time and cost he imagined was involved. Well, all that is in the past …read more

  • Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard To Make

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    By Maya Posch | February 13, 2026

    Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon replacement in semiconductor technology. Yet much like a diamond exposed to …read more

  • R2D2 Gets New Brains

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    By Al Williams | February 13, 2026

    While it is fun to get toys that look like your favorite science fiction props, it is less fun when the electronics in them don’t measure up to the physical …read more

  • Inside Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Atari Style)

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    By Al Williams | February 13, 2026

    It’s a bit ironic that an Atari 2600 game based on Raiders of the Lost Ark — a movie about archaeology — is now the subject of its own archaeological …read more

  • Custom Clamshell Cyberdeck Shows Off Underlighting

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    By Donald Papp | February 13, 2026

    Cyberdecks are great projects, and [Salim Benbouziyane]’s scratch-built CM Deck is a fantastic specimen. It’s a clamshell-style cyberdeck with custom split keyboard, trackpad, optional external WiFi antenna, and some slick …read more

  • Hackaday Podcast Episode 357: BreezyBox, Antique Tech, And Defusing Killer Robots

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    By Tom Nardi | February 13, 2026

    In the latest episode of the Hackaday Podcast, editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the game of lunar hide-and-seek that has researchers searching for the …read more

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