Ah yes, the Altair: the "first" #personal #computer that nobody actually used, except for #hobbyists with a soldering iron fetish 🤖🔧. Let's all pretend we care about a machine that booted to blinking lights and did absolutely nothing useful. But hey, it was "first" so it gets a gold star ⭐.
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/altair-at-50-remembering-the-first #Altair #Tech #History #First #Computer #HackerNews #ngated
#hobbyists
"#DeepSeek, and the #opensource #AIecosystem surrounding it, has rapidly evolved from a brief snapshot of technological brilliance into something much bigger—and much harder to stop. Tens of thousands of developers, from seasoned #researchers to passionate #hobbyists, are now working on enhancing, tuning, and extending these open source models in ways no centralized entity could manage alone."
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3960764/deepseeks-open-source-movement.html
Impact was guaranteed when the decision to enter the market of #microcomputers was made by #IBM. In retrospect it wasn't their capacity of unique hardware design and outstanding software development skills that made their #PC so successful.
Of course the #BigBlue #corporation with #Sstem360 #mainframe #computers ignored niche markets like #homecomputers for most of the 1970s. As #marketleaders they did #LOL hard about #hobbyists, especially since #DEC challenged them hard with better #minicomputers.
Simultaneously, IBM built a team of young talented engineers in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a #microcomputer in secrecy, and fast! Somehow, directors #WilliamLowe & #PhilipDonEstridge made a decision under pressure that turned out to be great for the entire market, not their employer exclusively.
Considering the time (and #$hits) given, it's only logical that they relied heavily on free available components instead of own #chipdesigns. But somehow, the lack of #IP passed their lawyers and IP team before #InternationalBusinessMachines went public.
1981, August 12th, the IBM #PC5150 changed the world of #PersonalComputers, by accident (for the better of humanity).
Of course the #BigBlue #corporation with #Sstem360 #mainframe #computers ignored niche markets like #homecomputers for most of the 1970s. As #marketleaders they did #LOL hard about #hobbyists, especially since #DEC challenged them hard with better #minicomputers.
Simultaneously, IBM built a team of young talented engineers in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a #microcomputer in secrecy, and fast! Somehow, directors #WilliamLowe & #PhilipDonEstridge made a decision under pressure that turned out to be great for the entire market, not their employer exclusively.
Considering the time (and #$hits) given, it's only logical that they relied heavily on free available components instead of own #chipdesigns. But somehow, the lack of #IP passed their lawyers and IP team before #InternationalBusinessMachines went public.
1981, August 12th, the IBM #PC5150 changed the world of #PersonalComputers, by accident (for the better of humanity).
→ Mistral, Europe’s biggest #AI #startup, is blowing hot
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/03/06/mistral-europes-biggest-ai-startup-is-blowing-hot
“[Mistral's] models […] are firmly middling. […] So #Mistral has tried to make its name by competing more obliquely. For instance, many of its models are #opensource: anyone may download and use them without explicit permission, for no charge. Others are released under the company’s own "research" #licence; commercial users must pay for them, #hobbyists and #hackers can fool around with them #freely.”
Just a brief #factoid to perhaps save other #electronics #hobbyists some time.
#BigClive frequently uses a particular type of crimp-contact-and-housing as a universal socket for LEDs and other leaded components. Not just any such connector will do; various #JST, "#Dupont", and others won't work, because they only grasp pins of one particular size and/or shape. If the lead is too big, it won't go in, and if it's too small, it won't stay in.
If you want to use these connectors - and note you can get the housings with more than 2 contacts, so you can use them for transistors or weirder things too - the magic search term is "KF2510".
The reason these work as universal sockets for leaded components is because the contact is a spring that pushes from only one side of the housing, pressing the inserted contact or lead against the far side of the housing, and therefore provides a friction fit for any size lead (within reason). Most crimp connectors instead have particular shapes for their contacts and will only "grab" something the right size and shape.
#KF2510 #CrimpConnector #crimp #socket #component #leaded #connector #solderless #universal #contact #housing
Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER Made from Manila Folders
https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523745
* 1:60 scale model of an Air India Boeing 777-300er, made entirely from manila folders
* traces beginnings to high school architecture class
* learned to use manila file folders to roughly model building ideas
#hobbyists #crafts #arts #Boeing777 #architecture #VisualArts
Additionally! I should say - if you’d be welcoming to a rabble of #Miniatures & #MiniaturePainting #Hobbyists - this has been a wonderful bunch to moderate, I would highly recommend telling them to join your instance.
Any #electronics #hobbyists have any ideas for this,? I have been searching off and on for over a year for a datasheet for this but found nothing. I do not want to throw it out as I believe that would be a waste.
do you consume a lot of the media your creative hobby is? for example, do you musicians listen to a lot of music in your free time?
@Philsan can I dare to hope that this bodes well?
If the execs at the current incarnation of #Atari have the tiniest bit of sense, they'll realise that many of the original generations of Atari users are now at peak earning capacity (as evidenced by prices for vintage Atari kit) but also have a good knowledge of the #history of Atari, care deeply about #integrity of the brand and have enormous #respect for the hardware and software #hobbyists building new and exciting stuff for the platform today.
Some of us have money to spend, but we're exceedingly wary about nasty, unimaginative, exploitative plays by current-day Atari and will shit loudly on them from the rooftops if they try to take the piss or take us for fools.
AMAZON BOOKS 1947 😂 #TBT
This was how we ordered books..
you know.. back in the day, eh?
#ThrowBackThursday #Books #Orders #Craftsmen #Tradesmen #Catalog #Contractors #Architects #Engineers #Mechanics #Tradesmen #Craftsmen #Hobbyists
#RedHat is concerned that rebuilders (like @rockylinux & @almalinux) have the potential to revert #opensource back into a #hackers and #hobbyists only actiivity…
To that @geerlingguy, @jerod & @adam say:
“Yes, please!”
“VisiCalc sold more than seven hundred thousand copies in its first six years, and almost single-handedly demonstrated the utility of the #AppleII, which retailed for more than a thousand dollars at the time (the equivalent of more than five thousand dollars in 2023). Prior to the early seventies, #computers were centralized machines—occupying entire rooms—that #academics and #hobbyists shared or rented time on, using them communally. They were more boiler-room infrastructure than #LifeStyle accessory, attended to by experts away from the #PublicEye.”
Read to the end. The ease of use of complicated tools, results in a lot problems in the future.
#PersonalComputers / #VisiCalc / #Commodore / #tandy <https://newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-birth-of-the-personal-computer>
#Designing version 3 of a water fountain and #fusion360 is having a very bad time with my use of repeated patterns, I'm going to have to move to better software soon but there so few offer options for #hobbyists . #3dprinting
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Popular Hobby to Start Today - #Astronomy || #Shorts
https://youtube.com/shorts/IzHG46x1Yws?feature=share
Raspberry Pi has a new plan
For hobbyists to explore Japan
For a low cost
A global shutter camera
Can be yours for fifty buck-a-man
#raspberrypi #camera #hobbyists #machinevision #limerick #poetry
Unidentified Object Downed by US Could Belong to Hobbyists
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https://alaska-native-news.com/unidentified-object-downed-by-us-could-belong-to-hobbyists/66342/
#balloons #shootdowns #hobbyists #club #biden
Kia ora #Aotearoa,
The #NZServer instance is here to give you a local #NewZealand based timeline. We welcome #individuals groups, #crafts, #arts #hobbyists, #nonprofits #SmallBusiness and #Organisations to create a #mastodon presence
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