Collaborate Disseminate
Playing chess online is all well and good, and opens up a whole world of competitors that would otherwise be unavailable in one’s local area. But there’s something to be …read more Continue reading Automatic Chessboard Lets Online Players Move The Pieces
MIDI controllers come in all shapes and sizes. Commercial products based on keyboards or matrixes of buttons are popular, but there’s nothing stopping you from whipping up your own creations …read more Continue reading Old Phone Becomes MIDI Controller
Soldering tiny stuff is hard, if not impossible, without some optical assistance. [Ad_w00000] was having just this problem, so built himself a soldering magnifier to help. The magnifier uses a …read more Continue reading Old DSLR Lens Becomes Useful Soldering Magnifier
Nintendo’s Game Boy line were the world’s most popular handheld gaming systems, but did have their drawbacks. Most notably, the Game Boy didn’t receive a backlit color LCD until the …read more Continue reading Nintendo DS Transformed Into Gameboy Macro
As nation states grapple with the spectre of environmental and economic losses due to climate change, we’ve seen an ever greater push towards renewable energy sources to replace heavier polluters …read more Continue reading Electric Vehicles Could Be The Grid Storage Solution We’ve Been Dreaming Of
Earthquakes are highly destructive when they strike, and unlike many other natural disasters, they often hit with minimal warning. Unlike hurricanes and floods, and even volcanoes to an extent, earthquakes …read more Continue reading ShakeAlert Promises Earthquake Early Warning of About 10 Seconds
Typically, when it comes to inclement weather, ice is the worst of the worst of driving conditions. Regular tyres have little to no grip in such situations, and accidents are …read more Continue reading How To Get Into Cars: Ice Racing Mods
The Fallout series of games has a variety of ridiculous weapons, not least the Super Sledge — a rocket propelled sledgehammer that looks about as dangerous for the wielder as …read more Continue reading Building Fallout’s Super Sledge
We don’t typically use gasoline engines smaller than 50 cc or so on a regular basis. Below that size, electric motors are typically less messy and more capable of doing …read more Continue reading Tiny Gasoline Engine Fitted With A Custom Billet Waterpump
Kinetic energy recovery systems have often been proposed as a useful way to improve the efficiency of on-road vehicles, and even used to great effect in motorsports for added performance. …read more Continue reading Bicycle Flywheel Stores A Bit of Energy, Not Much