Collaborate Disseminate
Filtering sawdust out of an airflow is easy until you try to do it with cyclone separation, but the obvious appeal here is of course not spending a fortune on …read more Continue reading Designing a Printable Cyclone Dust Separator for 99.95% Efficiency
Whether you’re using granules or filament, FDM printing relies heavily on a consistent flowrate of the extruder. This is also the challenge with [HomoFaciens]’s direct granule extruder. Version 7.1 here …read more Continue reading Putting Version 7.1 of the Direct Granules FDM Extruder Through Its Paces
People seem to be rather into the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot, if only for the low price tag. But perhaps more interesting are the motors that propel it — they …read more Continue reading Unitree GO-M8018-6 Motor Reverse Engineering
A healthy aquarium ecosystem requires very specific conditions, with factors like the salinity and temperature having to be just right to keep said ecosystem happy. As some species are adapted …read more Continue reading Improving an Aquarium Chiller with an Industrial Controller Transplant
As fun as ARM and RISC-V single-board computers (SBCs) are, all too often getting the most out of the hardware requires the use of an unofficial firmware image. So too …read more Continue reading How the Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Violates the First Rule of OpenWRT Club
Circa 2015 or so, it seemed like you couldn’t move a finger without being bombarded with ads and articles about ‘smart homes’ and the ‘internet of things’ — all of …read more Continue reading Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped
FDM 3D printing is fairly messy on a molecular scale, with the filament being heated up to temperatures high enough to melt it, which produces ultra-fine particles (UFPs) and volatile …read more Continue reading Investigating the Health Impacts of UFPs and VOCs from FDM Printers
In a recent video [Saša Karanović] revisits the DIY filament dryer that he gave a shot a couple of years ago. Back then he reused an existing filament dryer, adding a …read more Continue reading A DIY 3D Printing Filament Dryer
Everyone loves those rather bouncy wooden lounge chairs that got popularized by a certain Swedish seller of furniture, but as tough as they are, the laminated wood can still break …read more Continue reading Recreating a Broken Laminated Wooden Furniture Part
When the World Wide Web surged into existence during the 1990s, we were introduced to the problem of how to actually find something in this ever-ballooning construction zone that easily …read more Continue reading How Search Engines Enabled Finding Needles in a WWW-Sized Haystack