lol, this is fun. This guy made RAM for his relay computer using capacitors!
Building 1940s Capacitor Memory for a Relay Computer
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Category Archives: Inspiration
What’s inside an optical mouse?
An interesting look into the optical system in a mouse.
Why do we believe light is a particle?
One of my aspirations is to understand all the mathematics in this video. I’m not even close yet!
Fixing an old CRT
I love how he winds his own transformer!
Buy 12 Broken Ryzen CPUs for $10 Each and repair them for profit?
I was very impressed with how enterprising this guy is! Most just needed their pins straightened out, a few needed new pins, and two were salvaged for parts (i.e. pins).
Alessandro Volta
Today I read about Alessandro Volta who is the person the “volt” was named after. Volta achieved a number of things but the most famous of them is the Voltaic pile, the first battery.
Arduino Project Hub
Today I discovered Arduino Project Hub. There are over six thousand projects there!
Low Tech Sensors and Actuators
Today I discovered Low Tech Sensors and Actuators while reading Getting Started with Arduino. It’s a report about how to salvage electronics from cheap toys to make various types of systems which can interact with their environment.
How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code (hint: it’s Waterfall!)
In my feed today: How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code. He separates research, planning, and implementation phases, as he says: “Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.”
I might be the first to point out: this is Waterfall! Micro-waterfall?
X-TREME 3D RC HELICOPTER FLYING
Okay, these guys are just showing off.