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The latest 3D printing application? Forming concrete. That’s according to a team at ETH Zurich who claims that construction with foam forms cuts concrete usage up to 70%. It also …read more Continue reading Concrete with 3D Printed Foam Forms
How do you get better pictures from a 20+ year old Game Boy Camera? How about marrying a DSLR lens to it? That’s what [ConorSev] did and, honestly, the results …read more Continue reading Gameboy Gets Ridiculously Good Lens
What’s better than a 100MHz scope? How about an optical one? Researchers at the University of Central Florida think that’s just the ticket, and they’ve built an oscilloscope that can …read more Continue reading Your Next Oscilloscope Might be Optical
Do you know the law of least astonishment? I am not sure of its origin, but I first learned it from the excellent “Tao of Programming.” Simply put, it is …read more Continue reading Error Codes and the Law of Least Astonishment
If a combination multimeter and oscilloscope is on your holiday shopping list this year, you might want to have a look at some of [Kerry Wong’s] recent videos on the …read more Continue reading [Kerry Wong] is Really into Scope Meters
[Voltlog] often looks at interesting test equipment and in the video below he reviews something that isn’t very common in hobby labs: a differential oscilloscope probe. These are usually pretty …read more Continue reading Differential Probe Clocks at 100MHz and $200
Building something, of course, requires your electronics skills. But packaging it is often an exercise in mechanics. You can buy off the shelf, of course, but sometimes it is hard …read more Continue reading Customize These 3D Printed Cases
We doubt you could really live in [Pena’s] PVC submarine, but now the song’s stuck in our head anyway. Although the post is in Portuguese, you can get a pretty …read more Continue reading We All Live in a PVC Submarine
The holidays always remind us of our favorite toys from when we were kids. Johnny Astro, an Erector set, and — of course — a Spirograph. [CraftDiaries] has an Arduino …read more Continue reading Arduino Drives Faux Spirograph
If you are tried of building things that fly, why not try a submarine like [DIYPerks] did? As you can see in the video below, the key is to control …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Submarine