Collaborate Disseminate
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
It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how compact and waterproof they must be, yet there are plenty of …read more Continue reading The Chinese Smart Glasses Proving that Smart Glasses can be Repairable
Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost and easy recyclability. That said, paper is not an easy material …read more Continue reading High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels
Having a fully automated cotton candy vending machine in your possession is a great thing, but not if you do not have full access to its software. With [Block’s Retro …read more Continue reading Hacking a $6000 Cotton Candy Machine to Fully Control It
When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment …read more Continue reading Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager …read more Continue reading NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With a Big Bang
Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic that often got described in terms of such fruit variants. …read more Continue reading Going Full Fruity with Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3
It’s rather awkward when you buy a piece of hardware like a sketchy router to make a video about its hidden admin password backdoor – known as CVE-2026-11405 – only …read more Continue reading Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo