Collaborate Disseminate
How important is it to identify killer asteroids before they strike your planet? Ask any dinosaurs. Oh, wait… Granted you also need a way to redirect them, but interest in …read more Continue reading That’s no Asteroid…Oh, Actually It Is
We can’t condone what [Bertrand] did as a kid to make him a fan of payphones, but we get his desire to have one of his own in his home. …read more Continue reading A Home Payphone
How fast is your Internet connection? The days of 56K modems are — thankfully — long gone for most of us. But before you get too smug with your gigabit …read more Continue reading Sorry, Your Internet Connection is Slow
In CPU design, there is Ahmdal’s law. Simply put, it means that if some process is contributing to 10% of your execution, optimizing it can’t improve things by more than …read more Continue reading Optimizing Linux Pipes
Transistors come in different flavors. Tubes used an electric field to regulate current flow, and researchers wanted to find something that worked the same way without the drawbacks like vacuum …read more Continue reading Practical Transistors: JFETs
Canadian researchers at Concordia University want to change how you do 3D printing. Instead of using light or thermal mechanisms, they propose using ultrasound-activated sonochemical reactions. Sounds wild? You can …read more Continue reading 3D Printing with Sound, Directly
Here’s a scenario. You have a microcontroller that reads a number of items — temperatures, pressures, whatever — and you want to have a display for your Linux desktop that …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Easy Widgets
In the movie Terminator 2, the T-1000 robot was made of some kind of liquid metal that could change shape among other interesting things. According to a chemical engineer at …read more Continue reading Better Robots Through Gallium
There was a time when trying to learn to write low-level driver or kernel code was hard. You really needed two machines: one to work with, and one to screw …read more Continue reading Linux and C in the Browser
Outside of very small applications, Nikola Tesla’s ideas about transmitting serious power without wires have not been very practical. Sure, we can draw microwatts from radio signals in the air …read more Continue reading Wireless Power: Here? Now?