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I'll take one stepper over eight motors every time. That's the Meridian Orrery by illusionmanager, as Hackaday reported on May 1. All eight planets, the Sun and the Moon are…
Read the full formula: Meridian Orrery: One Motor, Eight Planets"Slim on plot and characterization, but the visuals more than make up for it." That's the Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus, and I'd tattoo it on the film if I could…
October is crowded. Maker Faire Rome runs October 23 to 25 in Rome, Italy. Amberley Museum in West Sussex holds its steampunk days on October 10 and 11, with airship…
Glorious, and absurd... I'm saying that as a compliment. Eric Schlaepfer, who posts as TubeTimeUS, built a 555 timer out of eight tetrode nuvistors, and Hackaday covered it this month…
In November 1988 a graduate student wrote a program to answer a simple question: how big is this internet we have built? It stole nothing. It deleted nothing. Its entire purpose was to exist, spread, and count.
Salim Benbouziyane crammed a working computer into an Altoids tin, keyboard included. Comfortable? He says no, the keys barely travel. I'll take a cramped keyboard I can carry in a…
Mizzou flunked, and as an IT professional I know a rename job when one's described to me. In a hidden-camera video that Accuracy in Media says it shot in January…
Now that's a theme name with some swagger to it. Clockwork Alchemy runs Rogue Makers and Air Pirates for three days in Redwood City, October 16 to 18, and I'd…
On 23 September 1999, a NASA orbiter arrived at Mars after nine months and 400 million miles. Nothing aboard it was broken. Everything worked. It fired its engine on schedule, behaved impeccably — and passed behind the planet forty-nine seconds early.
The robots are hiring again. Steam Powered Giraffe, San Diego's resident troupe of singing Victorian automatons, has commissioned a new unit: Toast, built 1896, rebuilt 2026, circus-style, plays flute, carries…
