Collaborate Disseminate
Cycloidal gearboxes are a recurring theme in the hobbyist space due to the performance their promise in a compact package. They are capable of taking in a high-speed input and …read more Continue reading Testing a 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox Design
Recently [Drygol] had an Amiga 1000 system over for some repairs as well as maintenance and general TLC. This is a Motorola 68000-based home computer from 1985 that also has …read more Continue reading Casual Repair and Maintenance on an Amiga 1000
Although generally glass isn’t associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible light …read more Continue reading Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button
The stack effect — also known as the chimney effect — is the basic principle that hot air not only rises, but if guided through a tube, the rising hot …read more Continue reading Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC Temperatures
As useful as USB-to-M.2 SSD adapters are, sometimes you come across a bit of a dud. A case in point is the Orico-branded TCM2-C3 that features both an attractive clear …read more Continue reading Fixing a JMicron-Based M.2 USB Enclosure That Stopped Working
Regular expressions (regexes) are an amazingly powerful way to perform operations on collections of e.g. text. Regexss can also be considered to be a programming language, even a Turing complete …read more Continue reading DOOM Using Regular Expressions
It’s been said for centuries that you cannot think on an empty stomach, and that love goes through the stomach. Although these may seem like merely cute jabs at the …read more Continue reading How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling
If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability and higher costs as time goes on. So too with Samsung’s SmartThings, …read more Continue reading Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access
There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of …read more Continue reading Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience
With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this …read more Continue reading FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code