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  • New Skill Acquired: Plasma Cutter

  • Earlier this week, I spent about 15 hours with the cutting torch. Just hacking apart a massive railroad dump truck I'm rebuilding. Hacking away at the truck, burning myself with slag and splatters, and leaving behind some truly hideous cuts as the torch...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 22 Winner

  • The tangled web woven by Week 22 of the Caption CERN Contest has come to a close. It's been another bumper week with 112 comments. Thank you to everyone who submitted a caption! We realize it may have been hard for some of the network engineers out there...
  • Walking the dog.

  • I'm a fan of the Beaglebone.  You can get down and dirty with hard-realtime assembly level control of pins if I you want, or watch from 10k feet and twiddle a pin in web browser with just Javascript.I sum up the Beaglebone Black to people who...
  • Nozzle presets

  • Positioning the nozzle by IR remote has grown into a pain in the mane.   It would be money to have 3 preset positions. The mane problem with presets was supporting 5 more remote control buttons.  The clockspeed had to be stepped up to...
  • People I look up to in the Retrobrew Community

  • As you may have guessed, my all time favorite is Bill Buzbee and his Magic 1 TTL 16-bit 70s style homebrew minicomputer. He is no doubt my greatest inspiration and his example is the chief reason I decided to go ahead with my own project. However, Bill...
  • Graphics, retrostyle.

  • As I’ve been developing this satellite tracking console, the goal has been to create a really unique piece of hardware that does useful work. The fact that it’s built up from a very eclectic collection of parts is pretty important to the aesthetic, so...
  • A look inside...

  • As you can see, she is completely gutted inside. I asked the former owner if they would take out the broken tube to save on having to deal with waste (and these things are heavy enough on their own.  There was, however, a couple of power-supplies...
  • Lets Build This Beast!

  • As with all great projects, this one starts with an unboxing. Not half bad - all the parts are there, but of course no instructions. Not to worry, they're available in PDF form from HobbyKing's site. I didn't follow the directions to the letter...
  • Part 18 - shlonkin

  • The old hauler stood dark and silent, its landing struts completely buried from years of dust storms. It was an autonomous craft that was not designed with life support in mind. Before any of the terraforming research crew came to Alderamin IV it arrived...
  • GTX 1080

  • Here are some details about the GTX 1080. I definitely want to use four of these cards, but I'm having to wait for the price to come down. Currently the founders edition is available on Amazon but with a huge markup at around $850. I'm not sure how long...