Collaborate Disseminate
When [Denki Otaku] bought a ¥1,200 (roughly €6.5) XLR ground loop isolator off Japanese Amazon, he initially didn’t suspect that anything was off. Since they’re fairly simple devices, with basically …read more Continue reading Learning About Ground Loop Isolators thanks to a Scam Product
One of the joys you get to experience whether as a proud parent or pet owner is that a lot of things get left around haphazardly. You could of course …read more Continue reading Building a Ceiling-Based Crane Robot to Keep a Room Clean
A year before the arrival of the brand-new 21st millennium, the Year 2000 Bug was predicted to grind modern society to a halt and ensure that at the dawn of …read more Continue reading The Y2K Bug in BSD 2.11 that Survived 2000
We have seen a number of self-playing chess boards over the years, but the general theme has been standard chess pieces moved by either an internal electromagnet or an external …read more Continue reading Robot Chess but Each Piece is a Small Robot
Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s surface …read more Continue reading Converting a Scanning Electron Microscope Into a TEM is Surprisingly Easy
The ESP32-S3 is by many metrics quite the powerful little computer, which has led to it being used even for things like emulating retro consoles and similar. Here [Ivan Svarkovsky]’s …read more Continue reading Deeply optimized MSX emulation on ESP32-S3 with VGA output
Although in our imagination those scale models of cars certainly can drive and steer just like their full-scale counterparts, there’s something incredibly satisfying about watching them truly come to life. …read more Continue reading Building a 1:150 scale Toyota ProBox Micro Remote Control Car
Recently [Bits und Bolts] stumbled over a pair of Dragon 3000 branded 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in his unfixed cards pile, and decided that the best course of action was …read more Continue reading Repairing a Pair of Voodoo 2 GPUs for some SLI Action
Unlike on Mars where for decades we have had dozens of orbital and ground-based platforms zipping and scurrying about to prod at every bit of emitted radiation, rock type and …read more Continue reading Evidence for Water Vapor Plumes on Europa Vanishes in Re-Analysis
The world of software has seen many paradigms come and go, all of which were supposed to revolutionize its development. Still, one of the basic tenets in engineering of there …read more Continue reading The Merits of Comment-Driven Development as Counterweight to TDD