1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (240+ words) Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is the topic of[Dr. Jon Peddie]s article series calledThe…...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago  (261+ words) Some kind of continuity beeper has been a standard piece of gear since the dawn of electronics. Sure, you probably have an ohm meter, but sometimes you don't care about "read more Some kind of continuity beeper has been a…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (351+ words) The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early video gaming hardware. As "read more The invention of sprites triggered a major shift…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago  (325+ words) Humans have lots of basic requirements that need to be met in order to stay alive. Food is a necessary one, though it's possible to go without for great stretches of time. Water is more important, with survival becoming difficult…...

22+ hour, 18+ min ago  (376+ words) A Newtonian fluid has a linear relationship between shear stress and shear rate. That's dry language for saying that when you press it, it moves, if you press it more, it moves more, and the readiness with which it moves,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (330+ words) The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection" maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gall-Peters, "read more The worst thing about the getting people together…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (212+ words) TULIP is short for "The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral" and it's an everything expansion board for the HP-41 line of handheld calculators sold by HP from 1979 to 1990. These particular calculators support Reverse Polish notation which seems to be one of those…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (215+ words) The first widely available mice in the 1980s used a quadrature interface, in which the output from mechanical encoders coupled to the mouse ball is fed directly to the computer interface which contains some form of hardware or microcontroller decoder. These…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (727+ words) Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering everything from mathematical operators and phonetic alphabets to emoji and obscure historical scripts. Our keyboards, on the other hand, remain stubbornly limited to a…...

2+ day, 29+ min ago  (359+ words) The project, which was recently featured in a video by [MattKC], replaces the original back-end services that the thin clients connected to via their dial-up modems, with the first revision using a proprietary protocol. The later and much more powerful…...