Collaborate Disseminate
With how much time many of us spend in our cars, it makes perfect sense to consider them a second home. Yet even if that’s not the case, there are …read more Continue reading Connecting Your Car to Home Assistant
Adding magnets to a 3D print can be very useful in a design, but there are some things that can trip you up if you’re not aware of them. In …read more Continue reading Ways to Embed Magnets in 3D Prints and Not Ruin Printers
There’s no shortage of cloned Nintendo hardware out there, and most of it is pretty poor. A few are actually pretty interesting though, such as the GB Boy by Gangfeng, …read more Continue reading Fixing a Nintendo Game Boy Clone that Runs Too Fast
The propensity of gasoline to ‘go stale’ through the process of oxidation is the reason why gasoline that has been stored for a long period of time is considered to …read more Continue reading Distilling Stale Gasoline to Make it Usable Again
First introduced in 1979 by Signetics, the NE5532 was a pretty spiffy dual op-amp for the time with low noise and low distortion. Over the years it has become a …read more Continue reading Texas Instruments Changes the NE5532 and Others into Incompatible Versions
In the world of buzzwords, the acronym ‘AI’ has absolutely been the buzziest of buzzing buzzwords for at least a few years now. Where previously terms like ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’ …read more Continue reading But Just What is This ‘Artificial Intelligence’?
Replacing a 3D printer’s extruder with a cutting blade seems like an easy way to do things like vinyl cutting, but you cannot just put on any blade and expect …read more Continue reading Turning an Old 3D Printer Into a Vinyl Cutter for Cheap
Pallets are a wonderful way to package goods and move them around, but especially the wooden ones have a very finite lifespan. This means that many of them are discarded …read more Continue reading From Scrappy Pallet Wood to Fancy Tea Tray
Before the Apple MacBook there was the Apple iBook, fruity 1999 colors included. These PowerPC-based laptops targeted low-cost PC-compatible laptops much like the iMac did, albeit it the latter with …read more Continue reading Restoring Apple’s Terrible but Awesome iBook Laptop
It’s possible to get a pretty good deal on used Toyota Prius cars, but as with all hybrid cars that also means a used battery pack and resulting issues. In …read more Continue reading On the Wisdom of Replacing a NiMH Module in a Prius Battery Pack