Before the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP, spelled ‘Chornobyl’ in Ukrainian) disaster in 1986, there had been little need for radiation-resistant robots to venture into high-risk zones. Yet in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/the-many-robots-that-ventured-into-the-chernobyl-npp-4-reactor/)

China Plans Its Own Megaconstellation To Challenge Starlink
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/china-plans-its-own-megaconstellation-to-challenge-starlink/

Satellite internet used to be a woeful thing. Early networks relied on satellites in geostationary orbits, with high latency and minimal bandwidth keeping user demand low. That was until Starlink …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/china-plans-its-own-megaconstellation-to-challenge-starlink/)

Dual Channel POV Display also has Nixie Tubes
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/dual-channel-pov-display-also-has-nixie-tubes/

What’s a tachyscope? According to [Daniel Ross], it is an animated display from an alternate timeline circa 1880. The real ones, of course, didn’t have LEDs and microcontrollers. The control …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/dual-channel-pov-display-also-has-nixie-tubes/)

Ask Hackaday: The Turing Test is Dead: Long Live the Turing Test!
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/ask-hackaday-the-turing-test-is-dead-long-live-the-turing-test/

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/ask-hackaday-the-turing-test-is-dead-long-live-the-turing-test/)

Adapter Lets Digital Gamepads Work On The Tandy Color Computer
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/adapter-lets-digital-gamepads-work-on-the-tandy-color-computer/

The Tandy Color Computer came with analog joysticks, quite unlike most computers and consoles of the early 1980s. Many games of the era actually worked best with digital input, so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/adapter-lets-digital-gamepads-work-on-the-tandy-color-computer/)

Is This The World’s Largest Dot Matrix Printer?
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/is-this-the-worlds-largest-dot-matrix-printer/

[RyderCalmDown] was watching a road painting vehicle lay down fresh stripes on the road one day and started thinking about the mechanism that lets it paint stripes in such a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/is-this-the-worlds-largest-dot-matrix-printer/)

Portable Soldering Station Runs On Drill Batteries
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/portable-soldering-station-runs-on-drill-batteries/

Power tool batteries are a convenient portable power supply for all manner of different things. [Zachary Goode] noticed that Ryobi was using them to power soldering irons, but no such …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/portable-soldering-station-runs-on-drill-batteries/)

Forgotten Chemical Photography
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/forgotten-chemical-photography/