by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 7, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Join us on Wednesday, December 9th at noon Pacific for the Vacuum Tube Logic Hack Chat with David Lovett! For most of us, circuits based on vacuum tubes are remnants of a technological history that is rapidly fading from our collective memory. To be sure, there are...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 5, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Over the last couple of years the cyberdeck community has absolutely exploded. Among those who design and build these truly personal computers there are no hard rules, save perhaps making sure the final result looks as unconventional as possible. But one thing that’s...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 4, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
What do you get when you stick 1738 MOSFETs together? If your answer was a ‘4-bit CPU’, you would be totally correct. Available as a product over at Marutsu as the ‘CPU1738’, it seems to target beginners to computer theory, with build instructions that explain how the...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 3, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
With reflow soldering, sometimes close is good enough. At the end of the day, the home gamer really just needs a hot plate or an old toaster oven and a calibrated Mark I eyeball to get decent results. This exhaust fan-equipped reflow oven is an attempt to take control...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 1, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
The competition between Intel and AMD has been heating up in the last few years as Intel has released chips fabbed with their 14nm++ process and AMD has been using TMSC’s 7nm process. In the wake of the two semiconductor titans clashing, a debate between the merits of...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Nov 30, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
A solar eclipse is coming up in just a few weeks, and although with its path of totality near the southern tip of South America means that not many people will be able to see it first-hand, there is an opportunity to get involved with it even at an extreme distance....
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