Collaborate Disseminate
The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are …read more Continue reading Photographing Cosmic Rays with a Consumer Camera
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world from a space probe, humans knew very …read more Continue reading The Music of the Sea
There are few things more American than driving a car really fast in a straight line. Occasionally, the cars will make a few left turns, but otherwise, this is the …read more Continue reading A Heavily Modified Rivian Attempts the Cannonball Run
When driving around in video games, whether racing games like Mario Kart or open-world games like GTA, the game often displays a mini map in the corner of the screen …read more Continue reading Need For Speed Map IRL
Not only are pianos beautiful musical instruments that have stood the test of many centuries of time, they’re also incredible machines. Unfortunately, all machines wear out over time, which means …read more Continue reading Extremely Rare Electric Piano Restoration
If you exclude certain companies like Peloton, the world of cycling technology is surprisingly open. It’s not perfect by any means, but there are enough open or open-ish standards for …read more Continue reading Ride On with FOSS and GoldenCheetah
Although it might seem like there was a sudden step change from analog to digital sometime in the late 1900s, it was actually a slow, gradual change from things like …read more Continue reading Converting a 1980s Broadcast Camera to HDMI
By now we’re all familiar with the quad-rotor design most popular among modern drones, and of course there are many variants using more or less propellers and even fixed-wing drones …read more Continue reading Magnus Effect Drone Flies, Looks Impossible
Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites orbiting overhead, from tiny cubesats to the International Space Station. …read more Continue reading Building a Low-Cost Satellite Tracker