You can find a lot of strange things inside IC packages. For example, the Dallas DS12885 and DS12887 real time clock “chips” were available in a large package with an internal battery. The problem, of ...

[Willem Koopman aka Secretbatcave] was looking at a master clock he has in his collection which was quite a noisy device, but wanted to use the matching solenoid slave clock mechanism he had to hand.

When I travel, mercados and marches are my greatest temptations. The brightly colored, mass-marketed food stacked on supermarket shelves tells me more about the state of a foreign culture than ...