Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever seen those cheap LED fiber optic wands at the dollar store, you’ve probably just thought of them as a simple novelty. However, as [Ancient] shows us, you …read more Continue reading Cheap Fiber Optic Wand Toy Becomes Tiny Weird Display
Fluid simulations are a key tool in fields from aerospace to motorsports and even civil engineering. They can be three-dimensional and complicated and often run on supercomputer clusters bigger than …read more Continue reading Low-Resolution Fluid Simulation On An ESP32
Gonzo journalism has been a hip thing since the 1970s or so, a way of covering a story in a compelling format with more subjectivity and less objectivity. The style …read more Continue reading Gonzo Film Making With The Raspberry Pi
Big-name tube amplifiers often don’t come cheap. Being the preserve of dedicated audiophiles, those delicate hi-fis put their glass components on show to tell you just how pricy they really …read more Continue reading Convert a Cheap Tube Preamp Into A Headphone Amp With Jenny
DOOM. The first-person shooter was an instant hit upon its mrelease at the end of 1993. It was soon ported off the PC platform to a number of consoles with …read more Continue reading What Game Should Replace Doom As The Meme Port Of Choice?
Picture a football (soccer ball) in your head and you probably see the cartoon ideal—a roughly spherical shape made with polygonal patches that are sewn together, usually in a familiar …read more Continue reading Too Smooth: Football and the “KnuckleBall” Problem
Ever been at a party and landed in a heated argument about exactly where the International Space Station (ISS) is passing over at that very instant? Me neither, but it’s …read more Continue reading Pocket Device Tracks Planets And The ISS
One-wheels use motion-tracking hardware and fine motor control to let you balance on a single wheel. That’s neat and all, but [Michael Rechtin] had another idea in mind—what if a …read more Continue reading Building a One Wheel With Tracks
Split flap displays! They’re mechanical, clickety-clackity, and largely commercially irrelevant in our screen-obsessed age. That doesn’t mean you can’t have a ball making one of your own, though! [Morgan Manly] …read more Continue reading 3D Print Yourself A Split Flap Display
LoRa gear can be great for doing radio communications in a light-weight and low-power way. However, it can also work over great distances if you have the right hardware—and the …read more Continue reading DIY Yagi Antenna Sends LoRa Signals Farther