Collaborate Disseminate
There was a time when building electronics and building software were two distinct activities. These days, almost any significant electronic project will use a CPU somewhere, or — at least …read more Continue reading Circuit VR: Arduino Virtually Meets Analog
Imagine you are at the movies and you see a Roomba-like robot climbing a wall or clinging to a ceiling. How would that work? If you are like us, you …read more Continue reading Robot Clings to Ceiling
People are obsessed with the time and the weather. We’ve talked about the weather since we were all cave dwellers hunting with spears. But the time is a different matter. …read more Continue reading Historical Hackers: Ctesibius Tells Time
Most of us use calipers when working with our 3D printers. Not [Albert]. He has a clockwork caliper design that he 3D printed. The STL is available for a few …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Calipers Work like Clockwork
There’s a famous scene in the movie version of Frankenstein — but not in the book — where the doctor exclaims: “It’s alive!” We wonder if researchers at TU Delft …read more Continue reading Printer Uses Algae to Print Live Structures
It is funny how exotic computer technology eventually either fails or becomes commonplace. At one time, having more than one user on a computer at once was high tech, for …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Databases are Next-Level File Systems
Cryptologist [Lambros Callimahos] was a victim of his own success. He wrote a trilogy of books called Military Cryptanalytics covering code breaking in 1977. The first two volumes were eventually …read more Continue reading Cold War Code Breaking Manual Teaches Impossible Puzzle Solving
[Yoel Fink] and his team at MIT have announced their creation of a fiber that can sense and store data. In addition, they can use data from a shirt made …read more Continue reading At MIT, Clothing Fiber Watches You
Optical microscopes depend on light, of course, but they are also limited by that same light. Typically, anything under 200 nanometers just blurs together because of the wavelength of the …read more Continue reading Optical Microscope Resolves Down to 40 Nanometers
You may not know the name [Richard Hamming], but you definitely use some of his work. While working for Bell Labs, he developed Hamming codes — the parent of a …read more Continue reading Anti-Gravity, Time Travel, and Teleportation: Dr. Hamming Gives Advice