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NPAPI And The Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us …read more

The Time Clock Has Stood The Test Of Time

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish time cards and everything. …read more

How Do PAL And NTSC Really Work?

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humble microcontroller to the limit of its capability. …read more

The Rise And Fall Of The In-Car Fax Machines

Once upon a time, a car phone was a great way to signal to the world that you were better than everybody else. It was a clear sign that you had money …read more

Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background …read more

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  • Design Of Common Emitter Amplifier

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    By Al Williams | January 11, 2026

    It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn’t come up as often as …read more

  • Taking A Look At Variable Vacuum Capacitors

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | January 11, 2026

    Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of air, some high-end variable …read more

  • Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

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    By Tyler August | January 11, 2026

    At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living on the Enterprise-D? If …read more

  • EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM Machine!

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    By Dave Rowntree | January 11, 2026

    EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s with great delight that …read more

  • A New Kind Of Inductively-damped Compass

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | January 11, 2026

    At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in a cup of water. …read more

  • The Intel 8087 And Conditional Microcode Tests

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    By Maya Posch | January 11, 2026

    Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode contains the …read more

  • The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection

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    By Al Williams | January 11, 2026

    [Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device from 1997 promised to …read more

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