Collaborate Disseminate
Thermal energy storage is pretty great, as phase-change energy storage is very consistent with its energy output over time, unlike chemical batteries. You also get your pick from a wide …read more Continue reading Storing Solar Energy As Ice For Air Conditioning
A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even when there’s no connected device drawing power from …read more Continue reading How a Belkin USB Charger Pulls off a 3 Milliwatt Standby Usage
The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a working state, at which point you can …read more Continue reading Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX
The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types …read more Continue reading Slug Algorithm for On-GPU Rendering of Fonts with Bézier Curves now in Public Domain
Conway’s Game of Life excels in its simplicity, creating a cellular automaton on a 2D grid where each cell obeys a set of very simple rules that determine whether a …read more Continue reading Conway’s Game of Life With Physical Buttons
The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to …read more Continue reading How Long Can a Quadcopter Drone Fly on Just Solar?
Power banks come in many sizes, and those that target construction sites are probably among the largest. The massive four ton unit based around lead-acid batteries which the [Buy it …read more Continue reading User Repair of a Not User-Repairable Victron CCGX Issue
It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than the Play Store. Last year they proposed locking everyone into …read more Continue reading Google Unveils New Process for Installing Unverified Android Apps
There has been quite a bit of news recently about the Battle Born LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries and how they are dying in droves if not outright melting their plastic enclosures. …read more Continue reading Studying a Battle Born LFP Battery’s Death Under Controlled Conditions
At the beginning of March this year LEGO released their new SMART brick, which looks like a 2×4 stud brick and is filled to the brim with sensors, LEDs, NFC …read more Continue reading Teardown of a 2026 LEGO SMART Brick