by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 14, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
[Ben Heck] found an old card-swipe point-of-sale box at the Goodwill store, took it home, and tore it down to see what was inside. He found a completely serviceable single board computer based on the Z80. In fact, there’s a whole family of four Z80 chips: the...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 13, 2021 | [Tech News], How to Geek
14,993 young students created 9408 programs designed to run on Raspberry Pis in space. Each program ran for at least 30 seconds and accomplished a variety of tasks like taking pictures of the Earth, measuring the air in the ISS, and unintentionally keeping one poor...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 12, 2021 | [Tech News], How to Geek
The average person probably hasn’t given it much thought, but there are actually tons of fantastic applications for a swarm of drones. From practical operations like crop spraying to a lively light show, the sky is certainly the limit. But first, we have to...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 11, 2021 | [Tech News], How to Geek
McDonald’s is now one of the latest companies to have suffered a third-party data breach. The company says it is not dealing with ransomware, but that the breach did include store information from the US and some customer information in both Taiwan and South...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 9, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
It can be difficult for modern eyes to make much sense of electronics from the 1960s or earlier. Between the point-to-point soldering, oddball components, and the familiar looking passives blown up to comical proportions like rejected props from “Honey, I Shrunk...
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