Collaborate Disseminate
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
[Russell Graves] lives in Idaho and recently connected his solar installation to the grid, which meant adhering to regulatory requirements for both the National Electric Code (NEC) as well as …read more Continue reading The Regulatory Side of Rolling Your Own Moderate Solar Farm
Resin casting is a fantastic way to produce highly detailed parts in a wide variety of colors and properties, and while the process isn’t complicated, it does require a certain …read more Continue reading Modular Box Design Eases Silicone Mold-Making
For some applications, smaller is better and that is precisely the thinking behind a diminutive keyboard like the PiPi Gherkin, which is designed to use the Raspberry Pi Pico as …read more Continue reading Tiny Mechanical Keyboard, Powered by Pi Pico
Soldering requires steady hands, so when [Jonathan Gleich] sadly developed a condition called an essential tremor affecting his hands, soldering became much more difficult. But one day, while [Jonathan] was …read more Continue reading Soldering Iron Plus Camera Gimbal Helps Cancel Out Hacker’s Hand Tremors