Tag Archives: Vintage

Vintage Plasma Display Shows Current Rad Levels

Vintage Plasma Display Shows Current Rad Levels

It’s hard to argue that Soviet-Era nuclear engineering may have some small flaws, what with the heavily-monitored exclusion zone around Chernobyl No.4. Evidently, their industrial designers were more on-the-ball, because [Alex] has crafted the absolute most stylish fallout monitor we’ve ever seen, with ESP32 and a vintage Soviet-designed plasma display to indicate radiation levels in the exclusion zone. Since the …

Read More »

Vintage ’60 Minutes’ Episode Shows How Unhinged Lamborghini Testing Used To Be

Vintage ’60 Minutes’ Episode Shows How Unhinged Lamborghini Testing Used To Be

Modern Lamborghinis are marvelous pieces of precision engineering. Once Audi purchased the then-struggling Italian supercar maker in 1998, purists were afraid of how the notoriously sensible and serious German owners would change the imperfect yet exhilarating brand. As someone who was three-years-old when the purchase occurred, I’ve only heard fables about the old Lamborghini. …

Read More »