Collaborate Disseminate
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you certainly do. In a recent video it’s explained how he …read more Continue reading Saving an Electron Microscope from the Trash
Google’s Chromecast was first released in 2013, with a more sophisticated follow-up in 2015, which saw itself joined by the Chromecast Audio dongle. The device went through an additional two …read more Continue reading A Look Back at Google’s 2015 Chromecast
Hobbyist 3D printers have traditionally run the open source Merlin firmware, but as printers are being pushed to the limits, more capable firmware Klipper are being developed. This is why …read more Continue reading Danger-Klipper Fork Renamed to Kalico
The cable car system of San Francisco is the last manually operated cable car system in the world, with three of the original twenty-three lines still operating today. With these …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 1980s Restoration of San Francisco’s Cable Car System
In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushion of …read more Continue reading The Hovercraft Revolution and Finding the Right Niche for a Technology
When we look at how everyone’s favorite flying dinosaurs get around, we can see that although they use their wings a lot too, their legs are at least as important. …read more Continue reading Flying Drones That Can Walk and Jump into the Air: An Idea With Legs?
Fresh off a world record for the fastest quadcopter, [Luke Bell] decided to try his luck with something more own to earth, namely trying to tackle the world record for …read more Continue reading Trying to Shatter the World’s Fastest RC Car Record
Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a keyboard. In a detailed review and teardown video, [Jeff Geerling] …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi 500 and the Case of the Missing M.2 Slot
After recently putting together the paper tape reader for his custom tube-based UE1 computer, [David Lovett] did get squiggles on the outputs, but not quite the right ones. In the …read more Continue reading Debugging the UE1 Paper Tape Reader and Amplification Circuit
Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium alloy (zircalloy) tubes …read more Continue reading Silicon Carbide May Replace Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Fuel Rod Cladding