Collaborate Disseminate
Empty spools from 3D printer filament are the kind of thing that begs to be repurposed, and one option is [3d-printy]’s vertical filament spool parts drawer design. The way this …read more Continue reading A New Spin on Empty Filament Spools for Part Storage
Sometimes a device doesn’t do quite what one needs, and in those cases a bit of tampering might do the trick. That’s what led to being able to record video …read more Continue reading Hacking a Thermal Imager for Dual-use of the Thermal Sensor
[T-Kuhn]’s Octo-Bouncer platform has learned some new tricks since we saw it last. If you haven’t seen it before, this device uses computer vision from a camera mounted underneath its …read more Continue reading Robotic Ball-Bouncing Platform Learns New Tricks
[Benjojo] got interested in where the magic number of 1,500 bytes came from, and shared some background on just how and why it seems to have come to be. In …read more Continue reading Just How Did 1500 Bytes Become the MTU of the Internet?
We all need the occasional win when it comes to work or personal projects. Being able to feel that payoff of progress and satisfaction is deeply important, because if everything …read more Continue reading We All Need a Win Sometimes, So Make Them Yourself
Here’s an interesting experiment that attempts to measure the quality of a linear rail by using a form of visual odometry, accomplished by mounting a camera on the rail and …read more Continue reading Video De-shaker Software Measures Linear Rail Quality
[Kerry Wong] isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty, and is always more than willing to open things up and see what makes them tick. This time, he reviews and …read more Continue reading Review and Teardown of Economical Programmable DC Power Supply
[Kerry Wong] isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty, and is always more than willing to open things up and see what makes them tick. This time, he reviews and …read more Continue reading Review and Teardown of Economical Programmable DC Power Supply
The earliest televisions used a spinning disk technology called the Nipkow disk, which is exactly what [Science ‘n’ Stuff] recreated with their Arduino-based mechanical color television (video link, also embedded …read more Continue reading Big Spinning Disk Makes a Small Color Video Display
Want to see a 90s-era Acorn Archimedes A3020 home computer get opened up, refurbished, and taken for a test drive? Don’t miss [drygol]’s great writeup on Retrohax, because it’s got …read more Continue reading See Acorn Archimedes Get Repaired and Refurbished, in Glorious Detail