Collaborate Disseminate
Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots the Sensation of Touch
One of the fun aspects of open source software is that you can often find so many libraries and tools that implement the functionality you need, but ease of use …read more Continue reading Combining Photogrammetry Utilities into a Simple GUI Tool
Sapphires and rubies aren’t just pretty, they also got a range of practical uses. This makes it even more useful to be able to make them at home for obviously …read more Continue reading Making Better Rubies At Home
Document duplication has been a highly desirable feature, long before medieval monks slaved over yet another illuminated manuscript by flickering candle light. Fortunately one part of the Industrial Revolution was …read more Continue reading Neo-Cyclostyle: Automatic Document Copying Devices in 1890
A staple of old movies featuring railways, many handcars – also called pump trolleys or pump cars – feature the characteristic seesawing beam. Requiring at least two people, the motion …read more Continue reading 3D Printing a Railway Pump Car
After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), …read more Continue reading Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft
A time-honored tradition in the electronics repair business is to make many into one, specifically a stack of broken devices into one that works. So too with a triplet of …read more Continue reading Turning Corroded, Bug-Loving WiiMotes into a Working One
A fun way to think about a national electrical grid is as a massively upscaled electrical circuit, one in which you have multiple power supplies injecting AC power, with various …read more Continue reading How the Grid’s Harmonic Filters Keep the Power Clean
An interesting type of superconductors available to us today are the ones that achieve this property at room temperature, with only the small snag that they require crushing pressures that …read more Continue reading Superconducting Temperature Record set at Ambient Pressure
Much like Apple’s once vaunted super-slim butterfly keyboard, today’s range of portable devices featuring flexible OLED displays – which can fold said display into a much smaller form factor – …read more Continue reading Foldable OLED Displays and the Bane of Dust