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In 2014, Formula 1 switched away from V8 engines, electing instead to mandate all teams race with turbocharged V6 engines of 1.6 litres displacement, fitted with advanced energy recovery systems. …read more Continue reading Mercedes Split Turbo Was a Game Changer In Formula 1
Around these parts, we see plenty of plotter builds. They’re a great way to learn about CNC machines and you get to have fun making pictures along the way. [Ben …read more Continue reading Arduino Plots Your Portrait With Style
The average punter shunts audio around with analog 3.5 mm cables, RCA jacks, or Bluetooth on a regular basis. A useful standard that hasn’t really bothered most of us is …read more Continue reading Decoding S/PDIF With A Microcontroller Brings A Few Headaches
The D20, or twenty-sided die, is most commonly known in the shape of a regular icosahedron. It’s a fantastic, enchanting geometry, and one that has held the balance of fate …read more Continue reading You Can Now Build Your Own Glowing LED D20 (with a Whopping 2,400 LEDs)
So often, we use control devices for electronics that involve our fingers directly grasping, touching, or moving another object or surface. It’s less common for us to use interfaces that …read more Continue reading Finger Bend Is A Textile Flex Sensor You Can Sew At Home
Quadcopters are fantastical things, and now come in a huge variety of flavours, from lithe featherweight racers to industrial-grade filming rigs worth tens of thousands of dollars. The Beatle-1 from …read more Continue reading Micro Quadcopter Designed In OpenSCAD
The Raspberry Pi Pico is the hot new star of the microcontroller scene, with its fancy IO hardware and serious name recognition. Based on the RP2040 “Raspberry Silicon” chip, it’s …read more Continue reading Slimming The Raspberry Pi Pico With a Hacksaw
There’s plenty of specialised, high-end scientific equipment out there running on antique hardware and software. It’s not uncommon for old lab equipment to run on DOS or other ancient operating …read more Continue reading Vintage Spectrometer Gets Modern Interface Upgrade
Resin printers can offer excellent surface finish and higher detail than other 3D printing technologies, but they come with their own set of drawbacks. One is that they’re quite sensitive …read more Continue reading Off-The-Shelf Parts Make A Tidy Heater For Resin Printer
Pen input has never really taken off in the computing mainstream, though it’s had somewhat of a renaissance in the last decade or so. Various smartphones and tablets are shipping …read more Continue reading Flashpen Is A High Fidelity Pen Input Device