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...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 7, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
The venerable ATX standard was developed in 1995 by Intel, as an attempt to standardize what had until then been a PC ecosystem formed around the IBM AT PC’s legacy. The preceding AT form factor was not so much a standard as it was the copying of the IBM...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 4, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Security
One of the main advantages of cheap wireless modules is that they get used in consumer electronics, so if you know what’s being used you can build your own compatible hardware. While investigating the RF interface used in a series of cheap “smart”...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | May 26, 2021 | [Tech News], AI, Hackaday, Privacy
Like most of us, [Peter] had a bit of extra time on his hands during quarantine and decided to take a look back at speech recognition technology in the 1970s. Quickly, he started thinking to himself, “Hmm…I wonder if I could do this with an Arduino...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | May 24, 2021 | [Tech News], AI, Hackaday
We know you love a good biohack as much as we do, so we thought you would like [Tony’s] brainwave-controlled RC truck. Instead of building his own electroencephalogram (EEG), he thought he would use NeuroSky’s MindWave. EEGs are pretty complex,...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | May 20, 2021 | [Tech News], Google, Hackaday
Issac Asimov wrote Caves of Steel in 1953. In it, he mentions something called trimensional personification. In an age before WebEx and Zoom, imagining that people would have remote meetings replete with 3D holograms was pretty far-sighted. We don’t know if any...
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