Collaborate Disseminate
It’s a fact of operating an aircraft, that the make noise. If you’re an aviator you might want to quiet your craft to avoid annoying people nearby, or you might …read more Continue reading Quiet Wings, with Shape Memory Alloy
As our own Elliot Williams laid out, many people think that soldering is a key skill for electronics, but we don’t as often think about desoldering. Even if you are …read more Continue reading Solder Bridges Aid Desoldering
In the old days, big computers often had some form of external array processor. The idea is you could load a bunch of numbers into the processor and then do …read more Continue reading What Kind of GPU Are You?
Aviation history is a bit strange. People tend to remember some firsts but not others and — sometimes — not even firsts. For example, everyone knows Amelia Earhart attempted to …read more Continue reading Who Flew Across the Atlantic First? The Airborne Boats of 1919
While the Miller effect might sound like fun, it is actually the effect of parasitic capacitance in amplifiers. What do you do about it? Watch the video below the break …read more Continue reading Miller (Effect) Time
Last time we checked in with [CrafsMan] he had bought a benchtop injection molding machine. This time, he shows off how to 3D print molds. If you have ever had …read more Continue reading Injection Molds from Your 3D Printer
Broadcom and Agilent are perhaps not household words in every household, but among those who work with RF, they are common enough names. An Agilent developer wrote AppCAD to help …read more Continue reading AppCAD Does Transmission Lines
Do you ever wonder how much of what we do you could figure out from scratch? Tying your shoe might seem simple now, but kids have trouble mastering the skill, …read more Continue reading The Story Behind Ohm’s Law
Everything is better when you can program it, right? We have software-defined radios, software-defined networks, and software-defined storage. Now a company called Ascenium wants to create a software-defined CPU. They’ve …read more Continue reading Software Defined… CPU?
We all love 3D printing, but printing anything that has an overhang requires support, right? Maybe not. [Create Inc] has a video showing some 3D prints that seem to hang …read more Continue reading 3D Print in the Air with a Little Software Support