Monthly Archives: September 2020

State of the Art for Nixies Gets a Boost from Dalibor Farny’s Supersize Prototype

Never one to pass up on a challenge, artisanal Nixie tube maker [Dalibor Farný] has been undertaking what he calls “Project H”, an enormous array of 121 Nixie tubes for an unnamed client. What’s so special about that? Did we … Continue reading

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A Backlit Calendar for All Eternity

The advantage of the irregularities in the Gregorian calendar combined with the seven-day week is that they provide a constant source of yearly revenue for the paper calendar industry. Long before sustainability became a trending topic, people invented reusable, perpetual … Continue reading

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Weather Warnings and Dust Detection from this Meteorological Marvel

We love getting our weather in a flurry of different methods, but have you tried building your own sensor suite to harvest the data for you? [Giovanni ‘CyB3rn0id’ Bernardo] needed to monitor isolated locations outside the reach of WiFi. His … Continue reading

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Dynamic Soaring: 545 MPH RC Planes Have No Motor

The fastest remote-controlled airplane flight ever recorded took place in 2018, with a top speed of 545 miles/hour. That’s 877 km/h, or Mach 0.77! What was the limiting factor, preventing the pilot-and-designer Spencer Lisenby’s plane from going any faster? The … Continue reading

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Watch Chilling Footage of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings in Restored Color

"You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing," says Eiji Okada in the opening of Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour. "I saw everything," replies Emmanuelle Riva. "Everything." The film goes on to show the effects of the American atomic-bomb attack that devastated … Continue reading

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How to use the Shortcuts app to automatically create custom iOS wallpapers

There are a variety of unique ways to harness the power of the Shortcuts app, which has gained immense popularity since iOS 14 was released last week. Now Federico Viticci at MacStories has put together a new WallCreator shortcut that … Continue reading

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Developers can now build and run Swift code on Windows

Apple’s Swift programming language officially landed on Windows this week, with Swift toolchain images now available for download from the open source project. Announced in a blog post on Tuesday, the release of Swift tools enables developers to build, run … Continue reading

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How to give your iOS 14 home screen a custom aesthetic with unique app icons

iOS 14’s most popular feature has quickly become the all-new widgets that can give your iPhone a personalized touch. However, going further than that, custom iOS 14 aesthetics have become a huge trend. We’ve already covered how to create ultra … Continue reading

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Caddx ANT Lite (FPVCycle edition)

Caddx, with a help of Kabab (FPVCycle.com), have released the Ant Lite nano camera. It is lighter version of the Caddx Ant. The Ant Lite 4:3 uses the same electronics and sensor as the standard Caddx Ant camera. The difference … Continue reading

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The Interactive Storytelling Radio

[8BitsAndAByte] are back and this time they’re using AI to create an interactive storyteller. With the help of a Raspberry Pi, they upcycled an old Cold War era radio they dug up and the results are pretty impressive. The main … Continue reading

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