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Showing posts with label analog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label analog. Show all posts

Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977

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How does a vintage airspeed indicator work? CuriousMarc picked one up for a project, but it didn't have any documentation, so I revers...
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The unusual bootstrap drivers inside the 8086 microprocessor chip

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The 8086 microprocessor is one of the most important chips ever created; it started the x86 architecture that still dominates desktop and ...
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Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio

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How did NASA communicate with the Apollo astronauts, hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth? The premodulation processor 1 (below) was...
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Talking with the Moon: Inside Apollo's premodulation processor

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The Apollo missions to the Moon required complex hardware to communicate between Earth and the spacecraft, sending radio signals over hund...
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