Our hacker from [Appalachian Forge Works] wrote in to let us know about their vending machine build: a Halloween vending computer that talks. He starts by demonstrating the vending process: a backlit ...

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Eniac was a room full of electron tubes and was about as sophisticated as today's throwaway pocket calculator. But it was the first step into the digital age. Since then, a lot of computer ...

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