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Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the …read more

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As humans, we tend to consider our emotional states as a direct response to the experiences of our lives. Traffic may make us frustrated, betrayal may make us angry, or …read more

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An Introduction To DC Motor Technology

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By John Elliot V | November 16, 2025

[Thinking Techie] takes us back to basics in a recent video explaining how magnets, coils, brushed DC motors, and brushless DC motors work. If this is on your “to learn” …read more
Supersized Calculator Brings The Whole Intel 4000 Gang Together

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By Tyler August | November 16, 2025

Though mobile devices and Apple Silicon have seen ARM-64 explode across the world, there’s still decent odds you’re reading this on a device with an x86 processor — the direct …read more
Hackaday Links: November 16, 2025

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By Dan Maloney | November 16, 2025

We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, …read more
The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus The Module

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By Tyler August | November 16, 2025

Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Given the power of microcontrollers these days, it was only a matter of …read more
The King Of Rocket Photography

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By Al Williams | November 16, 2025

If you are a nerdy kid today, you have your choice of wondrous gadgets and time wasters. When we were nerdy kids, our options were somewhat limited: there was ham …read more
Using Multiple Quadcopters To Efficiently Lift Loads Together

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By Maya Posch | November 16, 2025

Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of stairs, so too can quadcopters …read more
An AI By Any Other Name

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By Al Williams | November 16, 2025

While there are many AI programs these days, they don’t all work in the same way. Most large language model “chatbots” generate text by taking input tokens and predicting the …read more

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