Gears are Old and Busted, Capstans are Cool
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/03/gears-are-old-and-busted-capstans-are-cool/

Zero backlash, high “gear” reduction, high torque transparency, silent operation, and low cost. What is this miracle speed reduction technology, you ask? Well, it’s shoelaces and a bunch of 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/03/gears-are-old-and-busted-capstans-are-cool/)

A Human-Sized Strowger Telephone Exchange
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/03/a-human-sized-strowger-telephone-exchange/

A large hacker camp such as EMF 2024 always brings unexpected delights, and one of those could be found in the Null Sector cyberpunk zone: a fully functional Strowger mechanical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/03/a-human-sized-strowger-telephone-exchange/)

Old Dot-Matrix Displays Give Up Their Serial Secrets
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/old-dot-matrix-displays-give-up-their-serial-secrets/

If there’s one thing we like better around here than old, obscure displays, it’s old, obscure displays with no documentation that need a healthy dose of reverse engineering before they …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/old-dot-matrix-displays-give-up-their-serial-secrets/)

GlowBlaster Uses 405 nm Laser To Make Its Mark
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/glowblaster-uses-405-nm-laser-to-make-its-mark/

Ever wish you could do a little target shooting in a galaxy far, far away? Well then you’re in luck, as the Star Wars inspired GlowBlaster designed by [Louis Abbott] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/glowblaster-uses-405-nm-laser-to-make-its-mark/)

Programming Ada: Records and Containers for Organized Code
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/programming-ada-records-and-containers-for-organized-code/

Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/programming-ada-records-and-containers-for-organized-code/)

Pasteurisation: Probably Why You Survived Childhood
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/pasteurisation-probably-why-you-survived-childhood/

There’s an oft-quoted maxim that youngsters growing up on farms have a much stronger immune system than those growing up in cities. The idea is that they are exposed to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/pasteurisation-probably-why-you-survived-childhood/)

Tunneling TCP By File Server
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/tunneling-tcp-by-file-server/

You want to pass TCP traffic from one computer to another, but there’s a doggone firewall in the way. Can they both see a shared file? Turns out, that’s all …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/04/tunneling-tcp-by-file-server/)