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November 29, 2012
6:53
Printing puzzles with plastic parts
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A decade or so ago, a line of jigsaw puzzles called Puzz3D brought the joys of fitting pieces of cardboard together into three dimensions. If you’ve ever put one together, you’ll remember being slightly disappointed at these 3D puzzles – they were made of two-dimensional foam board and only lived up to their expectations on the vertices [...]
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November 13, 2012
13:01
A nostalgic look at what a 13 year old can do with a C64
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[Armin] recently pulled out his Commodore 64 and looked back on the projects he did as a kid. The surprising thing is that we’re not talking quite as far in the past as you might image. He was 13 in 2002 and the family didn’t have a PC. But more than a decade before his [...]
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September 05, 2012
10:01
iMac reborn with present-day parts
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[Paul] spent his summer bringing an iMac G3 into this decade. There’s plenty of room to work with since he removed the CRT which originally occupied most of the computer’s space. The final project is much more powerful and since he preserved most of the metal mounting parts inside it remains quite strong. He started [...]
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August 21, 2012
11:30
Building a resistor substitution decade box
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[George] built an incredibly tidy resistor substitution decade box. These devices feature a pair of connections and a way to select the resistance between the two of them. In [George's] case it’s a pair of banana jacks and these eight thumbwheel switches. What you see above is the side of each thumbwheel switch. These are [...]
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