Collaborate Disseminate
[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for …read more Continue reading Huygens’ Telescopes Weren’t Very Good, Now We Think We Know Why
Typically, when you’re putting electronics in a robot, you install the various controller PCBs into the robot’s chassis. But what if the PCB itself was the chassis? [Carl Bugeja’s] latest …read more Continue reading Foldable PCB Becomes Tiny Rover
The TA-1042 is the most badass looking telephone you’ll ever see. It’s a digital military telephone from the 1980s, but sadly non-functional unless it’s hooked up to the military phone …read more Continue reading Cold War Military Telephones Now Usable Thanks To DIY Switch Build
Clockwork devices were popular right up until motors and electronics proved far more capable in just about every way. However, there’s something charming about a device you can wind up …read more Continue reading Make Anything Clockwork With This Ridiculous Stick-On Device
Whether you’re making coffee or beer or complex chemicals, weighing your ingredients carefully and tracking them is key to getting good results. [Tech Dregs] decided to build a logging …read more Continue reading The BLE Datalogging Scale Of A Thousand Uses
When it comes to reducing emissions from human sources, we’re at the point now where we need to take a broad-based approach. It’s not enough to simply make our cars …read more Continue reading Weird Electric Jet Skis Are Hitting The Waves
Mobile phones in schools. If you’re a teacher, school staffer, or a parent, you’ve likely got six hundred opinions about this very topic, and you will have had six hundred …read more Continue reading Plan To Jam Mobile Phones In Schools Is Madness
Back in the day, Lego spaceship sets used to come with these little wedge blocks painted with fake spaceship gauges on them. [“Ancient” James Brown] decided that wasn’t good enough. …read more Continue reading Working Artificial Horizon Built Into a Single Lego Brick
There’s something rewarding about building your own DIY audio hardware. Knowing you put it together yourself gives you faith in the construction, and psychosomatically makes the music sound all that …read more Continue reading A Feature-Rich Amplifier Module For 3-Way Speaker Builds
Shredding things isn’t just good for efficiently and securely disposing of them. It’s also very fun, as well. [Joonas] of [Let’s Print] didn’t have a shredder, so set about 3D …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed Shredder Eats Lettuce For Breakfast