The Java Ring, a ring-mounted iButton with a Java Virtual Machine compatible with the Java Card 2.0 specification within, was given to attendees of the JavaOne 1998 conference.[2]

You may have heard the term "suicide battery" used before and wondered what the heck it meant. Several arcade game manufacturers decided it would be a good idea to put a battery on their game boards that, when they die (and they will die), disable the game. Why they did this isn't exactly clear. Is it a way to artificially limit the lifespan of their games? Is it an anti-piracy measure? Do they want to assure that they will continue making money from the games by forcing you to send your boards to them for repair after a certain amount of time? Whatever their reasons, it sucks in a big way.

Bassline Baseline is a video essay that investigates the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in the last two decades of the 20th century. The narrative seeks to invite thoughts on technological mediation within product innovation and creative expression. The dead-panned 'documentary' video attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail and how increasingly more options, parameters or intermediaries devised during a tool's research and development phase don't necessarily lead to increased expressivity or virtuosity during the tool's lifetime of actual use, unless the super-structure of its cultural context is dramtically reconsidered.

Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the dice rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day.

2. Using scotch tape (or for better results, professional splicing tape), secure it to a flat surface (a cutting board is best) at one end, leaving about 3/4 of an inch or 2 cm free at the end. Which end you secure should depend on whether you are left-handed (secure the right end) or right-handed (secure the left end). Try not to push the tape down onto the audio tape, because the tape will strip the magnetic recording surface from the audio tape. Just lay the scotch tape over the audio tape lightly, and then push the scotch tape down onto your flat surface on either side of the audio tape.

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awesome modular electronics hobby system still being made

array of capacitors

FragTag - a highly advanced, dual protocol commercial Laser Tag Combat Simulation System that follows open standards!

Ground lift places a resistor (usually around 100 ohm) between the equipment ground and cable shield.

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inadvertent creation of a low-imp path bt the power supply rails which acts as a short circuit, disrupting proper functioning of the part and possibly even leading to its destruction due to overcurrent. A power cycle is required to correct this situation

Prevents a computer from going to sleep while you work or play Constant mouse activity prevents sleep mode and screen savers (and their password prompts)

In case you ever wanted to see some light emitting diodes and resistors demonstrate various sex positions, here's a gallery. Don't worry, it's nothing gross or graphic, they are circuits for god's sake!

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Hot or Not for music gear -- AWESOME!!!

god, i need to get my analog effect chain back

just a concept :(