Collaborate Disseminate
After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed in with feedback, criticism and friendly hostility regarding things like …read more Continue reading Revisiting Making Your Own Internet Router in 2026
Generally, the frame and other structural parts of an FDM printer use steel or similar, but could you use wood instead for that truly artisan look? As [Mitsu Makes] demonstrates …read more Continue reading Making a Zippy FDM Printer out of Wood
Recently [Throaty Mumbo] took a poke at another daft idea, in the form of loading Sega Genesis games off vinyl records. Although a whacky idea, it’s made possible through the …read more Continue reading Loading Sega Genesis Games Off a Vinyl Record
Mini game controllers with buttons and joysticks that move like the real deal are a pretty cool keychain and fidget toy, but at least for some of us there’s this …read more Continue reading Keychain GameCube Controller Made Functional
Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very small gaps between the layers. This is very unfortunate if you …read more Continue reading Testing Various Ways to Waterproof FDM Printed Parts
Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards …read more Continue reading Recycling Two XBox One Consoles into a 10 GB USB Flash Drive
As great as batteries are, it’s essential to understand their risks and how to keep them from going spicy. Recently there has been a bit of a fuss about the …read more Continue reading Testing LFP Battery Failure Modes With Overcharging
China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission launched on 28 May of 2025 and is scheduled to arrive at its target – near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo’oalewa – in June 2026. This gives …read more Continue reading Decoding the Tianwen-2 Sample Return Mission’s Telemetry Signal
The topic of downstream and upstream is an important one in the Linux ecosystem, where from one base distribution you can go many layers of distros deep before even looking …read more Continue reading Linux Distributions and Who is Responsible For the Software
Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging …read more Continue reading Autopsy of a Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor