Collaborate Disseminate
When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just …read more Continue reading Getting Back Into Resin Printing: First Results
Although lighting 3D prints on fire is rarely the intended outcome, it’s possible that said print will at some point in its future come into contact with either an open …read more Continue reading Lighting 3D Printed Parts on Fire for Science
In this era of consumer-grade FDM printers that have automatic bed levelling, automatic pressure advance tuning, automatic temperature regulation and so on buttoned away behind bullet-proof presets and automation, something …read more Continue reading Is Manual Filament Tuning Still Worth It?
It’s no real secret that battery packs for power tools aren’t the foremost when it comes to user serviceability, so if said battery pack suddenly stops charging outside of warranty, …read more Continue reading Fixing a Dead Makita Battery with a 20 Cent Part
In the world of children’s toys there are many offerings which are meant to look like devices used by older kids or even adults, with the Fisher Price Laugh & …read more Continue reading Turning a Toy Game Boy into a Real Game Boy
Taking a break from putting DOOM on devices that absolutely were never conceived for use as gaming devices, [Aaron Christophel] recently got enticed by some cheapo handheld gaming systems at …read more Continue reading Running DOOM on a Cheap 104-in-One Handheld
For most people the term ‘DNA sequencing’ probably brings to mind large, expensive laboratory equipment in sterile rooms, but over the past decades technological progress really has had its way …read more Continue reading Teardown of an Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer
Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more Continue reading The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool
As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this …read more Continue reading Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet
Sometimes you see a project just staring at you with proverbial puppy dog eyes and you just cannot look away. In the case of a once rather nice Sony TV …read more Continue reading The Stages of Grief in Repairing a Trinitron Found in the Trash