Collaborate Disseminate
The medical professional wearing a stethoscope is a familiar image, but Northwestern University wants to change that. Instead of someone hanging an ancient device around their neck to listen inside …read more Continue reading In New Doctor’s Office, Stethoscope Wears You
Historically, having a washer and a dryer in your house requires “a hookup.” You need hot and cold water for the washer as well as a drain for wastewater. For …read more Continue reading Heat Pump Dryer Explained
Like many people [Dan Greenall] spent a lot of time in the 1970s listening to shortwave radio. While you often think of that as a hobby involving listening to broadcast …read more Continue reading Mystery Signal! Are You Ready for Your Mystery Signal?
[Mellow Labs] wanted a smart washer and built a simple controller. However, he found out after a few weeks it wasn’t working how he wanted. The detergent quit flowing, and …read more Continue reading DIY Smart Washing Machine Redeisgn
[Mr. Carlson] has been restoring vintage military radios, and as part of his quest, he received an ART-13 transmitter. Before he opened the shipping box, he turned on the camera, …read more Continue reading Life Imitates ART (ART-13, That Is)
It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Easy Kernel Debugging
Analog computers have been around in some form for a very long time. One very obvious place they were used was in military vehicles. While submarine fire computers and the …read more Continue reading Computer Gear with — um — Gears
It used to be only high-end test equipment that had some sort of remote control port. These days, though, they are quite common. Historically, test gear used IEEE-488 (also known …read more Continue reading How to Talk to Your Scope
We’ll admit we’ve kicked around the idea of a camera that digitally signs a picture so you could prove it hasn’t been altered and things like the time and place …read more Continue reading A Camera That Signs Off Your Pictures
You’ve seen it in movies and shows — the hero takes a blurry still picture, and with a few keystrokes, generates a view from a different angle or sometimes even …read more Continue reading 3D Human Models from a Single Image