Otis Boykin – inventor and engineer – Heart stimulators, improved electrical resistor & guided missiles – African American History Month 2015 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Otis Frank Boykin – inventor and engineer.. Invented an improved electrical resistor- Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American inventor and engineer. Otis Frank Boykin was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas. His mother Sarah was a homemaker and his...

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New Products 3/31/2023 Featuring Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – 868 or 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT! (Video)

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New Products 3/31/2023 Featuring Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio – 868 or 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT! (Video) Adafruit 2.7″ Tri-Color eInk / ePaper Display with SRAM – Red Black White (0:18) ESP32-H2-MINI-1 Module – 4MB Flash (1:26) ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1...

Subscribe to the Adafruit Youtube channel! #Youtube #AdafruitLearnSystem

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Are you subscribed to the Adafruit Youtube channel? If you’re not already subscribed, click here! http://adafru.it/subscribe . It’s a free and easy way to keep up with our newest episodes. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Electronics Show and...

“Women’s Work” and the Hidden History of Computer Science and Engineering

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The photo above is of a woman weaving core memory. Sparkfun is wrapping up Women’s History Month by talking about the influence of work traditionally done by women on the fields of computer science and engineering. From using binary code...

Reviving the Great American Vacuum Tube #Audio #Vintage @wired

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Rossville, Georgia, on the border with Tennessee, doesn’t look like a tech town. It’s the kind of place where homey restaurants promising succulent fried chicken and sweet tea are tucked among shuttered businesses and prosperous liquor stores. The cost of living...

An SD card reader shaped like an external floppy drive #MARCHintosh #VintageComputing #Floppy

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A design for a Commodore SD card reader in the shape of an external floppy drive with LED lights has been posted on Printables. It’s a remix from Thingiverse.It’s a real thing to look to integrate SD cards into vintage...

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing #AI #ML @Wired

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Computers have been digital for half a century. Why would anyone want to resurrect the clunkers of yesteryear? Charles Platt at Wired looks into this growing trend when he heard:Bringing back analog computers in much more advanced forms than their...

International Transgender Day of Visibility 2023 #TDOV

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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility! Today, along with the rest of the world, we’re celebrating the transgender and non-binary community. Here’s more from Human Rights Campaign:While we have made significant progress in recent years, with more visibility than ever...

Project: Greening the Spark – HackSpace Magazine Issue 65 #RaspberryPi #PiDay @HackSpaceMag @Raspberry_Pi

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 65 – DIY GAMES features an article: “How I Made Greening the Spark”.Greening the Spark is a model of a system for electricity generation, distribution, storage, and consumption – in short, a typical national grid. I have...

World Backup Day 2023: the day to prevent data loss!#WorldBackupDay

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BACK-IT-UP!While you should definitely be backing up more than once a year it doesn’t hurt to have a worldwide holiday to remind you. Every March 31 is World Backup Day dedicated to keeping your data safe. From WorldBackUpDay.com:WHAT IS A...

Documentaries to Watch Anytime for #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM23 #WomenInSTEM

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Learning about women’s history shoudln’t end April 1st. Carry the momentum of Women’s History Month into April and the months to come with help from PBS and UPROXX.PBS released a handful of documentaries in March including Girl Talk, a documentary...