Retrogadgets: The Ageia PhysX Card
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrogadgets-the-ageia-physx-card/

Old computers meant for big jobs often had an external unit to crunch data in specific ways. A computer doing weather prediction, for example, might have an SIMD (single instruction …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrogadgets-the-ageia-physx-card/)

Non Contact Scope Probe Costs Nearly Nothing
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/non-contact-scope-probe-costs-nearly-nothing/

[IMSAI Guy] wants you to build a non-contact scope probe. The cost? Assuming you have a bit of wire and a regular scope probe, it won’t cost you anything. Why …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/non-contact-scope-probe-costs-nearly-nothing/)

Upgrading a Cheap LX-2BUPS UPS Board To Fix Fatal Flaws
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/upgrading-a-cheap-lx-2bups-ups-board-to-fix-fatal-flaws/

Cheap uninterruptable power supply (UPS) boards that take Li-ion cells of some description seem to have cropped up everywhere the past years. Finding use in applications such as keeping single-board …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/upgrading-a-cheap-lx-2bups-ups-board-to-fix-fatal-flaws/)

Retrotechtacular: How Not to Use Hand Tools
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrotechtacular-how-not-to-use-hand-tools/

Whatever you’re doing with your hand tools, by the US Army’s lights, you’re probably doing it wrong. That seems to be the “Green Machine’s” attitude on pliers and screwdrivers, at …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrotechtacular-how-not-to-use-hand-tools/)

Peering Inside the Tang FPGA
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/peering-inside-the-tang-fpga/

[Greg] has been working with the Tang Nano 9K FPGA board. He wanted to use the Gowin Analysis Oscilloscope (GAO) to build an internal monitor into the device for probing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/peering-inside-the-tang-fpga/)

Tokyo Atacama Observatory Opens As World’s Highest Altitude Infrared Telescope
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/tokyo-atacama-observatory-opens-as-worlds-highest-altitude-infrared-telescope/

Although we have a gaggle of space telescopes floating around these days, there is still a lot of value in ground-based telescopes. These generally operate in the visible light spectrum, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/tokyo-atacama-observatory-opens-as-worlds-highest-altitude-infrared-telescope/)

RepTrap Keeps Watch Over Our Cold-Blooded Friends
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/reptrap-keeps-watch-over-our-cold-blooded-friends/

Wait a second, read that title again. This isn’t a throwback 3D printing project at all. That’s “RepTrap” as in reptile trap, and it’s a pretty clever way to study …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/reptrap-keeps-watch-over-our-cold-blooded-friends/)