Hackaday

Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home

To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...
Hackaday

Voltmeter-Based Floating Point Calculator Does It In Style

That much is evident in the fabulous  design of Calcumator 2000, an electromechanical calculator that uses voltmeter ...