Collaborate Disseminate
We all know that using 3D printing filament with exotic filament that has metal or carbon fibers in it will tend to wear standard nozzles. That’s why many people who …read more Continue reading PSA: Watch Out for White Filament
The videos from [styropyro] are always amusing and informative. However, ironically for him, he is alarmed that many green laser pointers are more powerful than they are supposed to be. …read more Continue reading The World’s Brightest Laser Pointer?
The end of the year is often a time for people to exchange presents and — of course — the rich want to buy each other the best presents. The …read more Continue reading Gift Idea from 1969: A Kitchen Computer
Back when 3D printers were pretty new, most of us had glass beds with or without painter’s tape. To make plastic stick, you’d either use a glue stick or hair …read more Continue reading Homebrew 3D Printer Goop Promises Better Bed Adhesion
If you want to 3D print arbitrary shapes with an FDM printer, you often find you need supports. If you have dissolvable support material, that might not be a big …read more Continue reading Designing to Remove Supports
[Adrian] had a TRS-80 model IV that looks like it was stored in a mulch pile. However, it seemed to have some surprises. The first hint that something was up …read more Continue reading Dirty TRS-80 Has a Surprise Hack
We were always amused that one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the recent past — graphene — was started with pencil lead and Scotch tape. Now, researchers at the …read more Continue reading Miracle of Science: Scotch Tape Improves Generator
The PalmPilot doesn’t seem to get much retrocomputing love, but maybe it should. After all, it might not have been the very first handheld, but it was probably the most …read more Continue reading The PalmPilot Returns, This Time in Your Browser
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, engineering students would take a few semesters of drafting and there would usually be a week or two of “computer-aided drafting.” In …read more Continue reading Better Coding Through Sketching
Working on car electrical systems used to be easy. The battery simply provided power for the car’s starter motor when starting or to run the small number of accessories when …read more Continue reading Car Batteries: More than Just Wet Lead