Personal Reflections On Immutable Linux

Immutable distributions are slowly spreading across the Linux world– but should you care? Are they hacker friendly? What does “immutable” mean, anyway? Immutable means “not subject or susceptible to change” …read more

Ask Hackaday: Are You Wearing 3D Printed Shoes?

We love 3D printing. We’ll print brackets, brackets for brackets, and brackets to hold other brackets in place. Perhaps even a guilty-pleasure Benchy. But 3D printed shoes? That’s where we …read more

Dithering With Quantization To Smooth Things Over

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That …read more

Crunching The News For Fun And Little Profit

Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades it’s been the subject of …read more

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Taking delivery of a new vehicle from a dealership is an emotional mixed bag. On the one hand, you’ve had to endure the sales rep’s hunger to close the deal, …read more

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Mach Cutoff: Bending The Sonic Boom

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By Lewin Day | July 16, 2025

Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half …read more
Blu-ray Won, But At What Cost?

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By John Elliot V | July 16, 2025

Over on their substack [ObsoleteSony] has a new article: The Last Disc: How Blu-ray Won the War but Lost the Future. In this article the author takes us through the …read more
The DEW Line Remembered

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By Al Williams | July 16, 2025

If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and-cover drills. The United States and Canada built …read more
Caltech Scientists Make Producing Plastics From CO2 More Efficient

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By Maya Posch | July 16, 2025

For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although …read more
Arduino Saves Heat Pump

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By Bryan Cockfield | July 16, 2025

For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they …read more
A History Of The Tandy Computers

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By Al Williams | July 15, 2025

Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But do you know Tandy? And did you ever wonder how a leather company …read more
Wendelstein 7-X Sets New Record For The Nuclear Fusion Triple Product

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By Maya Posch | July 15, 2025

In nuclear fusion, the triple product – also known as the Lawson criterion – defines the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction produces more power than is needed to …read more

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