Collaborate Disseminate
A safe haven to preserve samples of biodiversity from climate change, habitat loss, natural disaster, and other threats is recognized as a worthwhile endeavor. Everyone knows good backup practice involves …read more Continue reading The Ultimate Seed Vault Backup? How About the Moon
Ever heard of Apollo Computer, Inc.? They were one of the first graphical workstation vendors in the 1980s, and at the time were competitors to Sun Microsystems. But that’s enough …read more Continue reading Apollo Computer: The Forgotten Workstations
A business card form factor can be quite limiting, but that didn’t stop [Schwimmflugel] from creating CardTunes, an ESP32-based Bluetooth audio speaker that tried something innovative to deliver the output. …read more Continue reading 2024 Business Card Challenge: CardTunes Bluetooth Speaker
[Ahron Wayne] succeeded in something he’s been trying to accomplish for some time: figuring out what’s inside a sealed Pokémon card packet without opening it. There’s a catch, however. It …read more Continue reading Sealed Packs of Pokémon Cards Give Up Their Secrets Without Opening Them
It would be better if humans didn’t toss cigarette butts on the ground in the first place, but change always takes longer than we think it should. In the meantime, …read more Continue reading Robot Seeks and Sucks Up Cigarette Butts, With Its Feet
An EDF (electric duct fan) is a motor that basically functions as a jet engine for RC aircraft. They’re built for speed, but to improve maneuverability (and because it’s super cool) …read more Continue reading Watch This RC Jet Thrust System Dance
We love hearing about a good experiment, and here’s a pretty neat one: researchers used a VR headset, an off-the-shelf VR360 camera, and some custom software to glue them together. …read more Continue reading Giving People an Owl-like Visual Field via VR Feels Surprisingly Natural
Some time ago [Kelton] was working on a clock inspired by Rube Goldberg contraptions. It uses only a single motor, and he’s proud to now show off the finished product …read more Continue reading Newly Completed Overly-Complex Clock Synchronizes Multiple Mechanisms
Rare earth elements are used to produce magnets with very high strength that also strongly resist demagnetization, their performance is key to modern motors such as those in electric vehicles …read more Continue reading Making EV Motors, And Breaking Up with Rare Earth Elements
8cc.vim is a C compiler that exists as pure Vimscript. Is it small? It sure is! How about fast? Absolutely not! Efficient? Also no. But does it work and is …read more Continue reading C Compiler Exists Entirely in Vim