Collaborate Disseminate
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more Continue reading Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
Continuing his quest to put DOOM on literally everything that has a capable enough processor and a screen, [Aaron Christophel]’s most recent target is a Slate 7 Pro travel router. With …read more Continue reading Running DOOM on a Travel Router With Touch Screen
Since Sony’s PlayStation 5 console is quite literally an AMD-based gaming PC with a custom mainboard, the only thing that really keeps anyone from just installing another operating system on …read more Continue reading Running Linux on the PS5 with a Hypervisor Exploit
One doesn’t generally associate cardboard with structural components like hinges, but [Itoshige Studio] assures us that you can absolutely create hinges out of this ubiquitous material. In total the video …read more Continue reading Five Different Styles of Cardboard Hinges
Doing software archaeology can be a harrowing task, as rarely do you find complete snapshots of particular versions of software. Case in point the development of MS-DOS – also known …read more Continue reading Transcribing the Source of the First DOS for the IBM PC
There is a persistent belief in the ‘AI’ community that large language models (LLMs) have the ability to learn and self-improve by tweaking the weights in their vector space. Although …read more Continue reading Why Model Collapse in LLMs is Inevitable With Self-Learning
An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit, which puts an important constraint on which environments you …read more Continue reading How to Kill Humidity Sensors With Humidity
After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back with a video that seeks to explore some of the questions …read more Continue reading Recycling PLA and Other Plastic Waste with Compression Molding
It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while …read more Continue reading Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?
Springs are great, but making them out of plastic tends to come with some downsides, for fairly obvious reasons. Creating a compliant mechanism that can be 3D printed and yet …read more Continue reading The Challenges of 3D Printing Reliable Springs