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Teaching Old Gauges New Tricks: Rebuilding a 1958 Patent for 2026
A nearly 70-year-old control-device patent turns out to contain a remarkably modern idea: sense something, set a limit, and let the machine act.Today we revisit a 1958 patent for an electromechanical control device and translate its core idea into 2026 technology. What once required analog needles, fine wires, mercury contacts and relays can now become a compact deterministic controller — or even a camera-based appliance capable of giving old gauges and machinery new automated abilities. [Read More]
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The Open Build Manifesto
The next era of the web must be transparent, human-centered, and collectively built — where AI and knowledge remain as open as mathematics, chemistry, and physics.
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Revitalizing The Silicon Valley Times
Reimagining tech journalism in the age of "ainnovation" and "everypreneurship".