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Retrotechtacular: RCA Loses Fight To IBM

If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation of America. Yet in modern times, the company is virtually forgotten for making large computers. …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Finding A Flat Tire

There was a time when wise older people warned you to check your tire pressure regularly. We never did, and would eventually wind up with a flat or, worse, a …read more

Marion Stokes Fought Disinformation With VCRs

You’ve likely at least heard of Marion Stokes, the woman who constantly recorded television for over 30 years. She comes up on reddit and other places every so often as …read more

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Ball-Joint Keyboard

Get a handle on this bad boy! Okay, so those voids are really more for airing out your palms, I’d imagine, because palm sweat sure is real — you should …read more

Tolerating Delay With DTN

The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up. Even if you are using WiFi in a …read more

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  • Size (and Units) Really Do Matter

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    By Al Williams | January 23, 2026

    We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to successfully use a slide rule, you need …read more

  • Embedded TPM: Watch Out!

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    By Al Williams | January 23, 2026

    Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having a recent TPM to even install. These have become …read more

  • Vacuum Fluorescent Displays Explained

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    By Maya Posch | January 23, 2026

    After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays work. Although VFDs are …read more

  • A 1970s Electronic Game

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    By Al Williams | January 22, 2026

    What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming company in 1978, the result would be a Waddingtons …read more

  • Nic Barker Explains ASCII, Unicode, And UTF-8

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    By John Elliot V | January 22, 2026

    Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And …read more

  • Silica Gel Makes For Better 3D Prints

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    By Lewin Day | January 22, 2026

    It’s possible to improve your 3D prints in all kinds of ways. You can tune your printer’s motion, buy better filament, or tinker endlessly with any number of slicer settings. …read more

  • Converting A Nebra Cryptocurrency Miner To A Meshcore Repeater

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    By Maya Posch | January 22, 2026

    After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, much of the associated hardware became effectively obsolete. This led to quite …read more

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