by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 12, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Based in the US as Hackaday is, it’s easy to overload the news with stories from home. That’s particularly true with dark tales of the expanding surveillance state, which seem to just get worse here on a daily basis. So we’re not exactly sure how we...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 11, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
With the office computer revolution now many decades old, many of the items that once stood on a typical desk are now part of history. The typewriter, the Rolodex, and the desk calendar have all been subsumed by computers and mobile phones. This electronic desk...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 10, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
In the days when the best an impoverished student could hope to find in the way of computing was a cast-off 1980s PC clone, one upgrade was to fit an NEC V20 or V30 processor in place of the Intel 8088 or 8086. Whether it offered more than a marginal advantage is...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 8, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
The wood-burning heater [g3gg0] has at home works perfectly, except for one flaw: the pellet reservoir needs to be manually refilled every few days. Humans being notoriously unreliable creatures, this critical task is sometimes overlooked, which naturally leads to...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 7, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
When we think of lawn mowers, our first thought is of heavy, rusty old machines that take the best part of an afternoon to get started. Of course, there’s always another way, as [Mark] ably demonstrates with his own build. Beginning from an unconventional...
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