Collaborate Disseminate
Recently a company called Z-Polymers introduced its new Tullomer FDM filament that comes with a lofty bullet list of purported properties that should give materials like steel, aluminium, and various …read more Continue reading New Tullomer Filament Claims to Beat PEEK, Aluminium and Steel
We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video …read more Continue reading The £25,000 Tom Evans Pre-Amp Repair and a Copyright Strike
The Apple FlatMac was one of those 1980s concepts by designer [Hartmut Esslingers] that remained just a concept with no more than some physical prototypes created. That is, until [Kevin …read more Continue reading FlatMac: Building the 1980’s Apple iPad Concept
When thinking of home computers and their portable kin it’s easy to assume that all of them provided BASIC as their interpreter, but for a while APL also played a …read more Continue reading Ampere WS-1: The Other APL Portable Computer
The difference between holography and photography can be summarized perhaps most succinctly as the difference between recording the effect photons have on a surface, versus recording the wavefront which is …read more Continue reading Holograms: the Art of Recording Wavefronts
The 20th century saw humankind’s first careful steps outside of the biosphere in which our species has evolved. Whereas before humans had experienced the bitter cold of high altitudes, the …read more Continue reading Exploring the Sounds and Sights Of Alien Worlds
If a tree falls in a forest with nobody around, does it make a noise? In the case of the rainforests equipped with the Rainforest Connection’s Guardian system someone most …read more Continue reading The Many Reasons For Putting Microphones in Rainforests
Back in the day the Apple iPod was the personal music player (PMP) to get even if mostly because everyone and their dogs had one. These days most people just …read more Continue reading Modernizing an Apple iPod, or: a Modern-Day Ship of Theseus
Phosphor-based displays like CRTs rely on the phosphor to emit light for a set amount of time after being activated, allowing them to display a seemingly persistent image with one …read more Continue reading A Laser with Mirrors makes a CRT-like Display
Magnetic skyrmions are an interesting example of solitons that occurs in ferromagnetic materials with conceivable solutions in electronics, assuming they can be created and moved at will. The creation and …read more Continue reading Creating and Control of Magnetic Skyrmions in Ferromagnetic Film Demonstrated