Collaborate Disseminate
Lithium rechargeable batteries have been heralded for their high-density energy storage, enabling all manner of technologies to come to fruition. From drones to practical electric cars to large-scale grid storage, …read more Continue reading Tesla’s Megapack Battery Burned for Days in Grid Storage Fire
Electronics might as well be a magical black box to some people. Where some would see a broken NES controller destined for the bin, [Taylor] saw the opportunity for a …read more Continue reading Thrashed, Damaged NES Controller Gets Brought Back To Life
Rocket engines are great for producing thrust from fire and fury, but they’re also difficult to make. They require high-strength materials that can withstand the high temperatures involved. [Integza], however, …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Steel Parts At Home Via Special Filaments
The controller for the original Nintendo Entertainment System is a classic, but perhaps not best known for its adherence to good ergonomic principles. Regardless, it can grow awkward to use …read more Continue reading Making a Left-Handed NES Controller
Maglev trains have long been touted as the new dawn for train technology. Despite keen and eager interest in the mid-20th century, development has been slow, and only limited commercial …read more Continue reading China MagLev Train Aspirations Boosted by New 600 km/h Design
For almost as long as there have been cars and planes, people have speculated that one day we will all get around in flying cars. They’d allow us to “avoid …read more Continue reading A New Flying Car Illustrates The Same Old Problems
Listening to chiptunes on an emulator or software-based player is fine, but sometimes you just gotta have that real hardware charm. [Kazhuu] is one such enthusiast who feels this way, …read more Continue reading A SNES Music Player You Can Control With A Browser
There are plenty of designs for table-top 3D printers, engravers, and general CNC machines out there. However, if you wanna build big things and build them fast, sometimes you need …read more Continue reading Giant CNC Machine Measures A Full Cubic Meter
Ah, the 5mm LED. Once a popular choice, they’ve been supplanted in modernity by smaller SMD components and/or more capable RGB parts in recent years. However, they’re still able to …read more Continue reading Cool Binary Clock Uses Old-School LEDs and a Fancy Graphic PCB
Solid state batteries have long been promised to us as the solution to our energy storage needs. Theoretically capable of greater storage densities than existing lithium-ion and lithium-polymer cells, while …read more Continue reading Murata To Deliver Solid State Batteries to Market In the Fall