[Dr. Shane] asks the question: what happens if you connect the output of an inverter logic gate back to the input? In theory, it doesn’t make sense, but depending on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/ring-around-the-inverter/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: 10% More Internet
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/floss-weekly-episode-769-10-more-internet/

This week, Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with David Taht about the state of the Internet and, specifically, IPv4 exhaustion. We’re running out of IPv4 addresses! But we’ve been …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/floss-weekly-episode-769-10-more-internet/)

Shuji Nakamura: The Man Who Gave Us the Blue LED Despite All Odds
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/shuji-nakamura-the-man-who-gave-us-the-blue-led-despite-all-odds/

With the invention of the first LED featuring a red color, it seemed only a matter of time before LEDs would appear with other colors. Indeed, soon green and other …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/shuji-nakamura-the-man-who-gave-us-the-blue-led-despite-all-odds/)

Developing In Pascal On The Commodore 64 With Abacus Super Pascal 64
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/developing-in-pascal-on-the-commodore-64-with-abacus-super-pascal-64/

Most people associate the Commodore 64 with Commodore BASIC and precompiled applications, but it also had a number of alternative development environments produced for it. One of these was Super …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/developing-in-pascal-on-the-commodore-64-with-abacus-super-pascal-64/)

Lift Those Pins With Ease
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/lift-those-pins-with-ease/

Reworking is one of the regular tasks of anyone who is involved in an electronic design process, because try as we might, it’s rare to get a design perfectly right …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/lift-those-pins-with-ease/)

Make Your Bookshelf Clickable
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/make-your-bookshelf-clickable/

We’ll confess that we have a fondness for real books and plenty of them. So does [James], and he decided he needed a way to take a picture of his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/make-your-bookshelf-clickable/)

Electrical Steel: The Material at Heart of the Grid
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/electrical-steel-the-material-at-heart-of-the-grid/

When thoughts turn to the modernization and decarbonization of our transportation infrastructure, one imagines it to be dominated by exotic materials. EV motors and wind turbine generators need magnets made …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/electrical-steel-the-material-at-heart-of-the-grid/)

A 1960s PLC Gives Up Its Secrets
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/15/a-1960s-plc-gives-up-its-secrets/