Vintage Computer Festival East was a Retro Madhouse
The Vintage Computer Festival East took place last weekend at the InfoAge Science and History Museum in New Jersey, and by any metric you care to use, it was a
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Signed Distance Functions: Modeling in Math
What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would
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Ask Hackaday: Incidental Earthquake Detection
It never seems to fail: at the very moment that human society seems to reach a new pinnacle of pettiness, selfishness, violence, and self-absorption, Mother Nature comes along and reminds
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2022: As The Hardware World Turns
Well folks, we made it through another one. While it would be a stretch to call 2022 a good year for those of us in the hacking and making community,
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New Venue Gives Philly Maker Faire a Fresh Start
When we last checked in with the Philadelphia Maker Faire in 2019, one couldn’t help but be impressed with what the organizers had pulled off with just a fraction of
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Handling Bulk Material: Why Does My Cat Food Get Stuck?
Bulk material is stuff handled ‘in bulk’. One LEGO piece is a brick but 1,000 poured into a bag is bulk material. Corn starch, sand, flour, powder-coat powder, gravel, cat
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The Connector Zoo: I2C Ecosystems
I2C is a wonderful interface. With four wires and only two GPIOs, you can connect a whole lot of sensors and devices – in parallel, at that! You will see
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Open 3D Engine: Amazon’s Old Clothes Or A Game Engine To Truly Get Excited About?
Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage),
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