Collaborate Disseminate
Last week, we wrote about the Leica M11-P, the world’s first camera with Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) credentials baked into every shot. Essentially, each file is signed with Leica’s …read more Continue reading Falsified Photos: Fooling Adobe’s Cryptographically-Signed Metadata
In the days before every piece of equipment was an internet-connected box with an OLED display, engineers had to be a bit more creative with how they chose to communicate …read more Continue reading Noble Graphs: Displaying Data With Neon Like Its 1972
Have 73 hours to kill and fancy a 4,609-mile road trip? Then you can check out some of the best observatories in the US (although we would probably recommend taking …read more Continue reading The Ultimate US Astronomy Roadtrip
Designing 3D environments is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. A week ago, if you decided to design an entire city in Blender, say for a game or animation, …read more Continue reading Design Cities In a Snap With Buildify
Sometimes a gizmo seems too cheap to be true. You know there’s just no way it’ll work as advertised — but sometimes it’s fun to find out. Thankfully, if that …read more Continue reading Putting a Cheap Laser Rangefinder Through Its Paces
At this point, 3D printers are nearly everywhere. Schools, hackerspaces, home workshops, you name it. Most of these machines are of the extruded-filament variety, better known as FDM or Fused …read more Continue reading Extruded Resin FDM Printing (With Lasers!)
The International Space Station was built not only in the name of science and exploration, but as a symbol of unity. Five space agencies, some representing countries who had been …read more Continue reading One Giant Leap (Backwards) for Humankind: What the Russia-Ukraine War Means for the ISS
Early in the morning of February 24th, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in realtime with troop movements …read more Continue reading The Invisible Battlefields of the Russia-Ukraine War
Ham radio operators can be pretty selective about their gear. Some are old-school tube purists who would never think of touching a rig containing transistors, and others are perfectly happy …read more Continue reading Homemade Panadapter Brings Waterfall to Old Radio
Sometimes a kid wakes up on Christmas morning and runs downstairs, only hoping to see one thing: a shiny new wind tunnel. This past December, that’s exactly what [SparksAndCode]’s son …read more Continue reading Homemade Toy Wind Tunnel Blows (Really Well)