Collaborate Disseminate
Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) involves the dynamics of electrically charged fluids, which effectively means making fluids move using nothing but electric fields, making it an attractive idea for creating a pump out …read more Continue reading A Compact Electrohydrodynamic Pump Using Copper and TPU
With companies desperate to keep adding more and more seemingly random features to their products, Oral-B made the logical decision to add Alexa integration to its Oral-B Guide electric toothbrush. …read more Continue reading Oral-B Hopes You Didn’t Use Your $230 Alexa-Enabled Toothbrush
An essential part of drones are the Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) which translate the commands from the flight computer into responses by the connected brushless motors (generally BLDCs). As the …read more Continue reading The End of BLHeli_32: Long Live AM32?
Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: Records and Containers for Organized Code
Doing electronics in the 1910s was rather rough, with the radio probably the pinnacle of hi-tech. Despite this, with some know-how and basic wood- and metal-working skills you could get …read more Continue reading Building and Testing a 1912-style Radio
Twenty years before the 1997 release of Riven – Cyan’s sequel to the critically acclaimed title Myst – a fruity company in California released the Apple II, a 6502-based microcomputer …read more Continue reading Walking Through a Scene from Riven on the Apple II
Most people have heard of or seen slide rules, with older generations likely having used these devices in school and at their jobs. As purely analog computers these ingenious devices …read more Continue reading The Genius of Slide Rule Precision
It’s hard to imagine a world without chocolate, and yet it is undeniable that there are problems associated both with its manufacturing and its consumption. Much of this is due …read more Continue reading Whole-Fruit Chocolate: Skipping the Sugar By Using the Entire Cacao Pod
The use of concrete and steel have both become the bedrock of modern-day construction, which of course also means that there is a lot of both which ends up as …read more Continue reading Recycling of Portland Cement and Steel in Electric Arc Furnaces
Although much of the software that runs on the ESP32 microcontroller is open source, the Wi-Fi driver is not. Instead, it uses a proprietary binary blob. This was no problem …read more Continue reading The Long Road Towards Reverse Engineering The ESP32 Wi-Fi Driver