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New comment by Pixelbrick in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

Pixelbrick — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:29:05 +0000

I'd of said I had limited appetite for April fools gubbins this year too but this still made me smile :)

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:38:37 +0000

I used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]"

Pixelbrick — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:55:42 +0000

I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

Pixelbrick — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:11:33 +0000

Isn't that what parallel construction is for?

New comment by Pixelbrick in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

Pixelbrick — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:53:18 +0000

Can't think of a way that brains doing this is adaptive in an evolutionary sense.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:40:46 +0000

Banana!

New comment by Pixelbrick in "The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:02:09 +0000

Too right. Never trust someone who thinks they have all the answers.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat"

Pixelbrick — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:14:11 +0000

Dirty money for dirty deeds...

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:19:15 +0000

You've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle of Sodor.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron"

Pixelbrick — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:40:51 +0000

As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(

New comment by Pixelbrick in "The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s"

Pixelbrick — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:05:38 +0000

Inspiration for Bruce Sterling's short 'Jim & Irene!'

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Permutation City (1994)"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:19:37 +0000

If you enjoy the 'cute bugs doing science' SF subgenre then his incandescence is definitely worth a look.

https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/Incandescence.html

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:20:52 +0000

Awesome find, the author is lucky indeed. I've got a 2465 (no B) that I love dearly & have spent too much time & money on.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home"

Pixelbrick — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:11:50 +0000

The same way it used to be done before we had LSI/VLSI!

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)"

Pixelbrick — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:10:56 +0000

Another one from the Center for the study of the Blindingly Obvious.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "Building a new ZX Spectrum from all new parts"

Pixelbrick — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:22:13 +0000

There's also the superfo harlequin that disintegrates the ULA into 74 series logic:

https://www.bytedelight.com/?product_cat=harlequin128

I'm currently building the 48k version

New comment by Pixelbrick in "A species of deep-sea squid has the world’s biggest light-producing organs"

Pixelbrick — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:54:24 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20230607012046/https://nautil.us...

New comment by Pixelbrick in "BeaglePlay from BeagleBoard brings fun to building with computers"

Pixelbrick — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:05:25 +0000

Take another look at the spec, looks like it has the dual core PRUs, an R5 & the A4 - whoops M4

New comment by Pixelbrick in "The Case of the Dead Mini5SX"

Pixelbrick — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 04:36:24 +0000

Thanks OP! That was a lovely writeup.

New comment by Pixelbrick in "The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)"

Pixelbrick — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:58:14 +0000

Measure the voltages on the connector. There's a pinout diagram further down on this page:

https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...

I've seen a bad power supply kill one of the two CIAs, the color ram & damage the SID on a C64C