Mars is fairly attractive as a potential future home for humanity. It’s solid, with firm land underfoot. It’s able to hang on to a little atmosphere, which is more than …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/heating-mars-on-the-cheap/)
1950s Switching Power Supply Does it Mechanically
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https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/1950s-switching-power-supply-does-it-mechanically/
When you hear about a switching power supply, you think of a system that uses an inductor and a switch to redistribute energy from the input to the output. But …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/1950s-switching-power-supply-does-it-mechanically/)
Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Packs Need Some Extra Circuitry
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/ultimate-power-lithium-ion-packs-need-some-extra-circuitry/
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/ultimate-power-lithium-ion-packs-need-some-extra-circuitry/
A LiIon pack might just be exactly what you need for powering a device of yours. Whether it’s a laptop, or a robot, or a custom e-scooter, a CPAP machine, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/ultimate-power-lithium-ion-packs-need-some-extra-circuitry/)
The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
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https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics/
Maybe best known as the company which brought a splash of color to corporate and scientific computing with its Indigo range of computer systems, Silicon Graphics Inc. (later SGI) burst …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics/)
Royal Typewriter Gets a Second (or Third) Life
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https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/royal-typewriter-gets-a-second-or-third-life/
Usually when we are restoring something with a keyboard, it is some kind of old computer or terminal. But [Make it Kozi] wanted an old-fashioned typewriter. The problem is, as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/royal-typewriter-gets-a-second-or-third-life/)
A Brief History of Keyboard Encoding
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https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/a-brief-history-of-keyboard-encoding/
While typing away on our DIN, PS/2, USB or Bluetooth keyboards one of the questions which we rarely concern ourselves with is that of how the keyboard registers which keys …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/a-brief-history-of-keyboard-encoding/)
If you’ve ever worked on a large project — your own or a group effort — you know it can be difficult to find exactly where you want to be …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/08/query-your-c-code/)