Collaborate Disseminate
[Electronoobs] has a healthy respect for the voltages and ceramics inside a microwave oven. But he still found the courage to tear one apart and show us the insides and …read more Continue reading Another Magnetron Teardown
If you’ve ever owned a shortwave radio, you’ve probably listened at least a little to the BBC World Service. After all, they are a major broadcasting force, and with the …read more Continue reading BBC World Service Turns 90
If you missed the Chumby, we’re sorry. They were relatively inexpensive Linux appliances that acted as a clock, Internet radio, and feed reader. The company went belly up, although there …read more Continue reading Chumby Gets New Kernel… Soon
[Ben Conrad] received an interesting tool as a gift that purported to be a better mousetrap. It was a crescent wrench (made by the Crescent company, even) that didn’t have …read more Continue reading Sliding Wrench Leaves a Little to be Desired
An accidental discovery by [3DQue] allows overhangs on FDM printers that seem impossible at first glance. The key is to build the overhang area with concentric arcs. It also helps …read more Continue reading Arc Overhangs Make “Impossible” 3D Prints
[Asianometry] has been learning about gallium nitride semiconductors and shares what he knows in an informative video you can see below. This semiconductor material has a much higher bandgap voltage …read more Continue reading The Gallium Nitride Revolution
Unless you are an audiophile, you likely think of tubes as mostly relegated to people who work on old technology. However, photomultiplier tubes are still useful compared to more modern …read more Continue reading Single Photon Detection with Photomultipliers
[Smbakeryt] needs your help. He bought a 1984-vintage Z8000 coprocessor card for the PC, but the software is missing in action. Apparently, the co-processor — called a Trump Card — …read more Continue reading Z8000 Trump Card Needs Your Help
MIT has been working on very thin solar cells made of a film just a few microns thick. The problem? The cells are so thin that they’re hard to work …read more Continue reading Solar Cell Fabric Makes Anything Solar
What do you get if you cross graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and tungsten diselenide? Well, according to researchers at Hunan University, you get a field effect transistor that can act …read more Continue reading A Transistor? Memory? Wait, It’s Both!