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Martinsburg Rotary closes one year and starts another

Martinsburg, West Virginia · Martinsburg

Martinsburg Rotary closes one year and starts another

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MARTINSBURG—The Martinsburg Rotary Club celebrated its end-of-year accomplishments Thursday evening at an installation dinner where Rotarians were recognized and new officers sworn in for the coming year.See the Story

Open A Portal To An NES Emulator

Open A Portal To An NES Emulator

The Portal games were revolutionary not only for their puzzle-based, narrative-driven gameplay, but also for their unique physics engine, which let players open portals anywhere and conserve momentum and direction through them. They’re widely regarded as some of the best video games ever made, but even beyond that they have some extra features that aren’t talked about as much. Namely, there are a number of level editors and mods that allow the i…See the Story

Laptop Brick Is Brought Back From The Brink

Laptop Brick Is Brought Back From The Brink

We’ve all been there. [Kasyan TV] had a universal adapter for a used laptop, and though it worked for a long time, it finally failed. Can it be fixed? Of course, it can, but it is up to you if it is worth it or not. You can find [Kasyan’s] teardown and repair in the video below. Inside the unit, there were a surprising number of components crammed into a small area. The brick also had power factor correction. The first step, of course, was to ma…Read Article

Randomly Generating Atari Games

They say that if you let a million monkeys type on a million typewriters, they will eventually write the works of Shakespeare. While not quite the same thing [bbenchoff] (why does that sound famili…Earthquake See the Story

LED Probe: A Smart, Simple Solution For Testing LEDs

If you’ve worked on a project with small LEDs, you know the frustration of determining their polarity. This ingenious LED Probe from [David] packs a lot of useful features into a simple, easy-to-implement circuit. Most multimeters have a diode test function that can be used to check LEDs; however, this goes a step further. Not only will the probe light up an LED, it will light up no matter which side of the LED the leads are touching. A Red/Gre…Read Article

Upgrading An Old Espresso Machine

Recently, [Samuel Leeuwenburg] got his paws on a Francis! Francis! X1 (yes, that’s the name) espresso machine. This is the espresso machine that is mostly famous for having been in a lot of b…Read Article

A Concentric Clock With Multiple Modes

Most of us spend our lives within reach of a device that provides a clock, stopwatch, and a timer – you’re almost certainly reading this article on such a device – but there are fewer options if yo…Read Article

Watkin’s Tower: London’s Failed Eiffel Tower

The city of London is no stranger to tall constructions today, but long before the first skyscrapers would loom above its streets, Watkin’s Tower was supposed to be the tallest structure in not only London but also the entirety of the UK. Inspired by France’s recently opened Eiffel tower, railway entrepreneur and Member of Parliament [Sir Edward Watkin] wanted to erect a structure that would rival the Eiffel tower, as part of a new attraction pa…London, England · London Read Article

How A DIY Chicken Coop Door Opener Went From Simple To Complex

How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] set out with, after three years of using a more basic off-the-shelf unit that offered no remote access nor a convenient user interface. The use case for [Jeff] was rather straightforward: the door would be open during the day and closed at night to keep the hens safely…Read Article

Attack Of The Beepy Clones

In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s yet another demonstration of power that open-source holds, and more importantly, it shows how even a small pet project of yours could cause big moves in the hardware world, provided you publish it – just ask [JoeN], [WoodWorkeR] and [arturo182]. The journey didn’…Linux · California Read Article

Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s

When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio cassette recorders. There were a few attempts at storing data on tapes, which, in theory, is simple enough. But, practically, cheap audio recorders are far from perfect, which can complicate the situation. A conference in Kansas City settled on a standard d…Kansas City, Missouri · Kansas City Read Article

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