Collaborate Disseminate
Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in LEO has a very pleasant side effect for atmospheric researchers. Starlink publicly …read more Continue reading Using Starlink’s Satellites to Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
The fun thing about thermopolymers like PLA is that you can blend in additives, some of which are necessary to make it at all usable, while so many other additives …read more Continue reading Printing FDM Filaments that are just Plain Weird
Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downloadable content and online services. However, at least in Japan, a modem add-on for …read more Continue reading Using the Famicom Network System in 2026
Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where …read more Continue reading Turning Energy Drinks Into Rocket Fuel
After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline not too long ago, it was only a matter of time before …read more Continue reading Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms with Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown
In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website that search engine indexing bots and similar …read more Continue reading ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers that Disrespect Robots.txt
While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to these microscopic particles. While you can certainly strip mine an entire …read more Continue reading Removing Microplastics from Soil with Tumbling Magnetic Flakes
With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more Continue reading The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments
One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows …read more Continue reading The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps
Now that MCUs like the ESP32-S3 are quite capable computer systems including USB host functionality, it only makes sense that you can connect USB peripherals like Logitech racing wheels to …read more Continue reading Read a USB Logitech Racing Wheel on an ESP32‑S3