Collaborate Disseminate
[Curious Marc] has an Apollo-era gyroscope but isn’t quite ready to put it through this paces without some practice. So he borrowed a 1949 vintage Sperry C5 gyro and did …read more Continue reading 1949 Gyroscope Spins Up Again
You don’t really create energy, you convert it from one form to another. For example, many ways that we generate electricity use heat from burning or nuclear decay to generate …read more Continue reading Turning Heat into Electricity
We’ll admit it is a bit of a gimmick, but [Adam Beedle’s] Spider-Bot did make us smile. The little robot can launch a “web” and use it to swing. It …read more Continue reading Grappling Hook Robot Swings Like Spiderman
Hanson robotics wants to make robots, but not “Lost in Space” [Robby] robots. Think more [Data] from Star Trek robots. They’ve announced [Grace], a lifelike robot made to take on …read more Continue reading Welcome to Our New Robot… Nurses
Computers in working order and with correct software don’t make mistakes. People, however, make plenty of mistakes (including writing bad software or breaking computers). In quality circles, there’s a Japanese …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Site: Check Digits and Human Error
If you know that most soda bottles are made from PET plastic, you’ve probably thought about how you could make filament from them and have an endless supply of cheap …read more Continue reading Deceptively Simple Process Turns Bottles into Filament
If you ever get the feeling someone is watching you, maybe they are listening, too. At least they might be listening to what’s coming over your computer speakers thanks to …read more Continue reading Eavesdropping by LED
We all have that one drawer or box full of random hardware. You don’t want to get rid of anything because as soon as you do, that’s the one thing …read more Continue reading Automatic Nut Sorter for a Tidy Workspace
We always knew that McDonald’s soft serve (you can’t really call it ice cream) machines are known to be finicky. There’s even a website that tracks where the machines are …read more Continue reading Freezing Out Ice Cream Machine Competition
If you think at all about liquid crystals, you probably think of display technology. However, researchers have worked out a way to use an ink-jet-like process to 3D print iridescent …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Liquid Crystal