Collaborate Disseminate
Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obsolete …read more Continue reading Physical Media is Dead, Long Live Physical Media
Nobody likes reading the fine print, least of all when you’re just downloading some 3D model. While printing a copy for personal use this is rarely an issue, things can …read more Continue reading 3DBenchy Starts Enforcing its No Derivatives License
Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another …read more Continue reading Cleaning Up Bhopal: the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of material that’s been receiving significant attention as a possible successor of silicon. Recently, a team of researchers has demonstrated the use of TMDs …read more Continue reading Growing Semiconductor Layers Directly With TMDs
The primary feature of stepper motors is listed right within their name: their ability to ‘step’ forwards and backwards, something which they (ideally) can do perfectly in sync with the …read more Continue reading One Small Step: All About Stepper Motors
Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Polynomial Constants in the Pentium’s FPU
Fresh from AliExpress, [Big Clive] got another fascinating item to tear down: a crane claw, as used in those all too familiar carnival games. These games feature a claw the …read more Continue reading How Crane Games are Playing Claw Games with the Player
Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time. …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: Atomics and Other Low-Level Details
Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with …read more Continue reading Creating Temporal Light Reflections With Metamaterials
When [Tahmid Mahbub] recently reached for his ‘Lavolta’ BPS-305 bench supply, he was dismayed to find that despite it being a 30V, 5A-rated unit, the supply refused to output more …read more Continue reading Repairing a BPS-305 30V Bench Power Supply