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Gather ‘Round This Unique 4-Player Arcade Cabinet
Usually when we see arcade cabinet builds, they’re your standard single-player stand up variety. Even one of them takes up quite a bit of room, so as appealing as it might be to link up two or more...
View ArticleInstitutional Memory, On Paper
Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a long-term project, he has been trying to figure out the computer systems on board. He got far...
View ArticleThe Impossible Repair: Ribbon Cables
It’s a problem that faces many a piece of older equipment that ribbon cables of the type used on membrane keyboards start to fail as they become older. These cables are extremely difficult to repair as...
View ArticleSoftware Bug Results in Insulin Pump Injuries, Spurs Recall
Managing Type 1 diabetes is a high-stakes balancing act — too much or too little insulin is a bad thing, resulting in blood glucose levels that deviate from a narrow range with potentially dire...
View ArticleBlueBerry Is a Smartphone-Agnostic Keyboard Firmware
If you’re anything like us, you really, really miss having a physical keyboard on your phone. Well, cry no more, because [Joe LiTrenta] has made it possible for any modern smartphone whatsoever to have...
View ArticleThe Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back
Over the decades web browsers have changed from the fairly lightweight and nimble HTML document viewers of the 1990s to today’s top-heavy browsers that struggle to run on a system with less than a...
View ArticleNo Solder! Squeeze Your Parts to the PCB
What’s solder for, anyway? It’s just the stuff that sticks the parts to the PCB. If you’re rapid prototyping, possibly with expensive components, and want to be able to remove chips from the board...
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