A Vintage Radiator Core, From Scratch
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/a-vintage-radiator-core-from-scratch/
A Teletype by Any Other Name: The Early E-mail and Wordprocessor
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/a-teletype-by-any-other-name-the-early-e-mail-and-wordprocessor/
NASA Announces New Trials for In-Space Laser Welding
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/nasa-announces-new-trials-for-in-space-laser-welding/
Intuition about Maxwell’s Equations
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/intuition-about-maxwells-equations/
Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk?
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/remember-the-tri-format-floppy-disk/
The End of Ondsel and Reflecting on the Commercial Prospects for FreeCAD
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/the-end-of-ondsel-and-reflecting-on-the-commercial-prospects-for-freecad/
WAV2VGM Plays Audio Via OPL3 Synthesis
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/wav2vgm-plays-audio-via-opl3-synthesis/
Teaching Computers to Read — Sort Of
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/teaching-computers-to-read-sort-of/
A Brief History of Cyrix, or How to Get Sued By Intel a Lot
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/a-brief-history-of-cyrix-or-how-to-get-sued-by-intel-a-lot/
Retrotechtacular: Color TV
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/retrotechtacular-color-tv/
You Wouldn’t Download a Chair…But You Could
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/you-wouldnt-download-a-chair-but-you-could/
Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Version 3
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/ubiquitous-successful-bus-version-3/
Minuteman ICBM Launch Tests Triple Warheads
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/minuteman-icbm-launch-tests-triple-warheads/
Z80 Testing the 80s Way
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/z80-testing-the-80s-way/
Britain’s Oldest Satellite on the Move: a Space Curiosity
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/11/britains-oldest-satellite-on-the-move-a-space-curiosity/
Some brand names become the de facto name for the generic product. Xerox, for example. Or Velcro. Teletype was a trademark, but it has come to mean just about any …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/a-teletype-by-any-other-name-the-early-e-mail-and-wordprocessor/)
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Comparing laser beam welding with electron beam welding in space. (Source: E. Choi et al., OSU, NASA)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/laser-beam-vs_electron-beam_welding_in_space_tamir_et_al_1993.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/laser-beam-vs_electron-beam_welding_in_space_tamir_et_al_1993.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">In-space manufacturing is a big challenge, even with many of the same manufacturing methods being available as on the ground. These methods include rivets, bolts, but also welding, the latter …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/nasa-announces-new-trials-for-in-space-laser-welding/)
You don’t have to know how a car engine works to drive a car — but you can bet all the drivers in the Indy 500 have a better than …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/intuition-about-maxwells-equations/)
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These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/remember-the-tri-format-floppy-disk/)
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Within the world of CAD there are the well-known and more niche big commercial players and there are projects like FreeCAD that seek to bring a OSS solution to the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/the-end-of-ondsel-and-reflecting-on-the-commercial-prospects-for-freecad/)
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Once upon a time, computers didn’t really have enough resources to play back high-quality audio. It took too much RAM and too many CPU cycles and it was just altogether …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/wav2vgm-plays-audio-via-opl3-synthesis/)
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If you ask someone who grew up in the late 1970s or early 1980s what taught them a lot about programming, they’d probably tell you that typing in programs from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/teaching-computers-to-read-sort-of/)
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In a new installment on computer history, [Bradford Morgan White] takes us through the sordid history of Cyrix, as this plucky little company created the best math co-processors (FasMath) and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/a-brief-history-of-cyrix-or-how-to-get-sued-by-intel-a-lot/)
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We have often wondered if people dreamed in black and white before the advent of photography. While color pictures eventually became the norm, black and white TV was common for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/retrotechtacular-color-tv/)
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[Morley Kert] had a problem. He’s a big fan of the lovely Fortune Chair from Heller Furniture. Only, he didn’t want to pay $1,175 for a real one. The solution? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/you-wouldnt-download-a-chair-but-you-could/)
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USB 2 is the USB we all know and love. But about ten years ago, USB got an upgrade: USB 3.0. And it’s a lot faster. It started off ten …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/ubiquitous-successful-bus-version-3/)
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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ian Dudley)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/minuteman-iii-16x9.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/minuteman-iii-16x9.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">On November 5th, the United States launched an LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Roughly 30 minutes later the three warheads onboard struck their targets …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/minuteman-icbm-launch-tests-triple-warheads/)
According to [MTSI], if you used a Z80 chip back in the 1980s, it almost certainly passed through the sole Fairchild Sentry 610 system that gave it the seal of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/z80-testing-the-80s-way/)
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Source: Vecteezy
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/lost-skynet-1a-1200.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/lost-skynet-1a-1200.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">Space and mystery always spark our curiosity, so when we stumbled upon the story of Skynet-1A, Britain’s first communication satellite from 1969, we knew it was worth exploring. The BBC …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/11/britains-oldest-satellite-on-the-move-a-space-curiosity/)
[Ziddy Makes] describes this cute little guy as a biblically-accurate keyboard. For the unfamiliar, that’s a reference to biblically-accurate angels, which have wings (and sometimes eyes) all over the place. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/11/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-all-the-espionage/)
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