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The Many-Sprites Interpretation of Amiga Mechanics <img width="800" height="450" src="image alt=""/>The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early video gaming hardware. As
Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation of Rare-Earth Elements <img width="500" height="270" src="image alt=""/>Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their
Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock <img width="800" height="450" src="image alt="Interconnected circuits for controlling the clock"/>We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train Station Clock which has been refurbished after being picked
Bringing A Yagi Antenna to 915MHz LoRa <img width="690" height="625" src="image alt="The yagi, suction-cup mounted to a wall"/>If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa protocol more generally. LoRa is a great, low-power radio communications
Escaping the Linux Networking Stack at Cloudflare <img width="800" height="363" src="image alt=""/>Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article
Chamber Master: Control Your 3D Printer Enclosure Like a Pro <img width="800" height="450" src="image alt="Chamber-Master"/>Having an enclosed 3D printer can make a huge difference when printing certain filaments that are prone to warping. It’s easy enough to build an enclosure to stick your own
All Projections Suck, So Play Risk on a Globe Instead <img width="800" height="251" src="image alt=""/>The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gall-Peters,
TULIP: The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral for the HP-41 Handheld Calculator <img width="800" height="503" src="image alt="Schematic for the TULIP4041"/>[Andrew Menadue] wrote in to let us know about the TULIP-DevBoard and TULIP-Module being developed on GitHub. TULIP is short for “The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral” and it’s an everything expansion
Vice of Old Brought to the Modern Age <img width="800" height="450" src="image alt="refurbished baby blue vice next to its refurbisher"/>People say they don’t make em’ like they used to, and while this isn’t always the case, it’s certainly true that old vices rarely die with time. This doesn’t mean
Linux Fu: Compose Yourself! <img width="800" height="484" src="image alt=""/>Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering everything from mathematical operators and phonetic alphabets to emoji and obscure historical scripts.
The Confusing World Of Bus Mice <img width="800" height="450" src="image alt=""/>The USB port which first appeared on our computers some time in the mid-1990s has made interfacing peripherals an easy task, save for the occasional upside down connector. But in
Playing a Game of Linux on your Sony Playstation 2 <img width="800" height="388" src="image alt=""/>Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical feats that the average home computer would struggle to emulate.