Collaborate Disseminate
Perhaps one of the clearest indications of the Anthropocene may be the presence of plastic. Starting with the commercialization of Bakelite in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, plastics have taken the …read more Continue reading Plastic On The Mind: Assessing the Risks From Micro- and Nanoplastics
There are many rechargeable battery chemistries, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Currently lithium-ion and similar (e.g. Li-Po) rule the roost due to their high energy density at least …read more Continue reading Improving Aluminium-Ion Batteries With Aluminium-Fluoride Salt
Although the most fire-resistant building is likely a windowless, concrete bunker, this tends to be not the vibe that most home owners go for. This is why over the years …read more Continue reading The Science Behind Making Buildings Comfortably Non-Combustible
Car infotainment systems somehow have become a staple in today’s automobiles, yet when it comes down to it they have all the elegance of a locked-down Android tablet. In the …read more Continue reading Upgrading RAM on a Honda Infotainment System
Like many pieces of lab equipment, oscilloscopes are both extremely useful and rather intimidating to a fledgling user. Unlike a digital multimeter with its point-and-measure functionality, digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs) …read more Continue reading Your Favorite Basic Oscilloscope Operation Guide?
The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started …read more Continue reading Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
As great as silicon is for semiconductor applications, it has one weakness in that using it for lasers isn’t very practical. Never say never though, as it turns out that …read more Continue reading Growing a Gallium-Arsenide Laser Directly on Silicon
As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. …read more Continue reading Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter
What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and …read more Continue reading Investigating Why Animals Sleep: From Memory Sorting to Waste Disposal
In the process of making everything ‘smart’, it would seem that rings have become the next target, and they keep getting new features. The ring that [Aaron Christophel] got his …read more Continue reading Hacking the 22€ BLE SR08 Smart Ring With Built-In Display