by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 2, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
Some might look at a cheap inkjet printer and see a clunky device that costs more to replace the ink than to buy a new one. [Abhishek Verma] saw an old inkjet printer and instead saw a smooth gantry and feed mechanism, the perfect platform to build his own DIY vinyl...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 26, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
The quest for truly random numbers is something to which scientists and engineers have devoted a lot of time and effort. The trick is to find an unpredictable source of naturally occurring noise that can be sampled, so they have looked towards noisy gas discharge...
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 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 | May 16, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
Without knowing it, we’ve spent years watching [Jasper Sikken] piece together an empire of energy harvesting equipment, and now he’s putting the pieces together into wonderful creations. His recently finished solar harvesting pyramids are mesmerizing...
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