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Hackaday Links: December 22, 2024

Early Monday morning, while many of us will be putting the finishing touches — or just beginning, ahem — on our Christmas preparations, solar scientists will hold their collective breath …read more

Upper Room UV-C Keeps Air Cleaner

2020 saw the world rocked by widespread turmoil, as a virulent new pathogen started claiming lives around the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic saw a rush on masks, air filtration systems, …read more

Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Table Saw Safety

If you ask around a wood shop, most people will agree that the table saw is the most dangerous tool around. There’s ample evidence that this is true. In 2015, …read more

Man Overboard Systems Aim To Increase Survival Rates At Sea

When you hear the cry of “Man Overboard!” on a ship, it’s an emergency situation. The sea is unkind to those that fall from their vessel, and survival is never …read more

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  • The Mystery Of The Messed-Up Hammond X5

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    By Elliot Williams | December 24, 2024

    [Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more

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    Retrotechtacular: Quest For The “Big Boy” CRT Finds New Home In Mini Doc

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    By Drew Littrell | December 24, 2024

    To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the screen on this particular model made it the largest tube …read more

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    Calling Pink Floyd

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    By Al Williams | December 24, 2024

    [Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd song of the same name. We suspect …read more

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    Watch Any Video On Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable

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    By Elliot Williams | December 23, 2024

    Game Boys have a link cable that lets two of them play together. You know, to battle with a friend’s Pokemon and stuff like that. But who says that it …read more

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    ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory

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    By Maya Posch | December 23, 2024

    Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a …read more

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    Camera Slider Uses Repositionable Rail To Do Rotational Moves

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    By Lewin Day | December 23, 2024

    You can buy motorized camera sliders off-the-shelf, but they’re pretty costly. Alternatively, you can make one yourself, and it’s not even that hard if you’re kitted out with a 3D …read more

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    Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots

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    By Heidi Ulrich | December 23, 2024

    Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have …read more

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