OldUse.Net: historical recreation of Usenet as it was 30 years ago

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OldUse.Net: historical recreation of Usenet as it was 30 years ago by Cory Doctorow

OldUse.Net is a historical, realtime re-creation of the Usenet experience, as it was in the heroic green-on-black era of the Internet. That is, it is a command-line-driven interface [...]

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

 

 

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Introducing: The Hans Solderer

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Introducing: The Hans Solderer by Gareth Branwyn

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The amazing and talented Craig Smith has made our day again:

This one is both neat and sickening to collectors.

About 1983, when I was fifteen, I dropped my dad’s red Bakelite soldering gun and broke the [...]

Program an Arduino using your sound card

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Program an Arduino using your sound card by Mike Nathan

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[Chris] wrote us to share a neat technique he has been using to program the Arduinos he uses in his projects. He likes to build bare bones Arduino clones rather than sacrifice [...]

The Rocket’s Red Glare Boing Boing Flickr Pool

Bill D. of the “Riding With Robots” blog shares this image with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool and says,

Flame shooting hundreds of feet from NASA’s new five-segment solid rocket motor during a ground test, Sept. 8, 2011 at ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah. The ground shook. The air shook. It was so bright you couldn’t look at it [...]