Collaborate Disseminate
Admit it. You’d get through boring classes in school by daydreaming of cool things you’d like to build. If you were like us, some of them were practical, but some …read more Continue reading Student Drone Flies, Submerges
Do you use a spell checker? We’ll guess you do. Would you use a button that just said “correct all spelling errors in document?” Hopefully not. Your word processor probably …read more Continue reading AI Code Review the Right Way
We don’t know if picking blackberries at scale is something people enjoy doing. But if you do, we have bad news. The University of Arkansas wants to put you out …read more Continue reading Robots are Coming for Your Berry Good Job
[Remy van Elst] found an obsolete bike navigation system, the Navman Bike 1000, in a thrift store for €10. The device was a rebadged Mio Cyclo 200 from 2015. Can …read more Continue reading One Man’s Trash… Bicycle Edition
You can get cheap no-brand macropads for almost nothing now. Some of them have just a couple of keys. Others have lots of keys, knobs, and LEDs. You can spring …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Cheap Macropad Conundrum
So you want a light that runs off solar power. But you don’t want it to go dark if your batteries discharge. The answer? A solar-mains hybrid lamp. You could …read more Continue reading Solar Light? Mains Light? Yes!
[Stoppi] always has interesting blog posts and videos, even when we don’t understand all the German in them. The latest? Computer simulation of wave propagation (Google Translate link), which, if …read more Continue reading Models of Wave Propagation
We’ve often thought that it must be harder than ever to learn about computers. Every year, there’s more to learn, so instead of making the gentle slope from college mainframe, …read more Continue reading Learn Computing? Head for MonTana!
Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there …read more Continue reading A History of Pong
Repairing radios was easier when radios were simple. There were typically two strategies. You could use a signal tracer (an amplifier) to listen at the volume control. If you heard …read more Continue reading Signal Injector Might Still be Handy