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Saturday 2024/08/31

2024 Tiny Games Contest: ATtinyBoy Does It with Tiny Cartridges
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:00:01 +0000

Left: the ATtinyBoy and cartridges inside a custom case. Right: ATTinyBoy under the hood.

What is it about tangible media? There’s just something neat about having an individual thing that represents each game, each album, each whatever. Sure, you can have a little console …read more

Taking a Spirograph Mill for a Spin
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:00:03 +0000

A milling machine with an attached pantograph following the various intricate patterns of a spirograph on the bench next to it. The spirograph is a series of acrylic gears and brass connecting bars mounted on a wooden base.

Spirographs can make some pretty groovy designs on paper, but what if you want to take it a step further? [Uri Tuchman] has used the pantograph on his milling machine …read more

Make Your Own Point Contact Transistor
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:00:32 +0000

Beyond the power variant, it sometimes seems as though we rarely encounter a discrete transistor these days, such has been the advance of integrated electronics. But they have a rich …read more

Universal Power Bank Customized To Your Liking
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000

One of the most troubling trends of almost every modern consumer product that uses electricity is that the software that controls the product is likely to be proprietary and closed-source, …read more

The Computer We All Wish We?d Had In The 8-Bit Era
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:00:06 +0000

The 8-bit home computers of yore that we all know and love, without exception as far as we are aware, had an off the shelf microprocessor at heart. In 1983 …read more

Putting a Pi in a Container
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 05:00:49 +0000

Docker and other containerization applications have changed a lot about the way that developers create new software as well as how they maintain virtual machines. Not only does containerization reduce …read more

Symmetrical Gear Spins One-Way, Harvesting Surrounding Chaos
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 02:00:15 +0000

Here’s a novel ratchet mechanism developed by researchers that demonstrates how a single object — in this case a gear shaped like a six-pointed star — can rectify the disordered …read more

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