Collaborate Disseminate
Mechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that propel foam …read more Continue reading Pushing the Boundaries of Tiny Mechanical Devices With Compliant Mechanisms
If you’re the happy owner of a vintage Apple system like a 1989 Macintosh IIci you may know the pain of keeping working monitors around. Unless it’s a genuine Apple-approved …read more Continue reading Designing a Macintosh-to-VGA Adapter With an LM1881
Although the PET is most likely the more well-known of Commodore’s early computer systems, the KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) single board computer was launched a year prior, in 1976. It …read more Continue reading Implementing Commodore’s IEC Bus Protocol On a KIM-1 Single Board Computer
When it comes to famous operating systems for the Z80 and similar Zilog processors, the first and maybe only one to come to mind is CP/M, which was even made …read more Continue reading Zilog’s Forgotten Operating System: Z80-RIO
Everyone and their pet hamster probably knows that the most common way to produce hydrogen is via the electrolysis of water, but there are still a number of steps between …read more Continue reading Creating an Automated Hydrogen Generator At Home
One of the more interesting cultural phenomena is the ‘bleep’ that replaces certain words in broadcasts, something primarily observed in the US. Although ostensibly applied to prevent susceptible minds from …read more Continue reading Bleep Remover Censors Those **** Bleeps
The field of therapeutic cloning has long sought to provide a way to create replacement organs and tissues from a patient’s own cells, with the most recent boost coming from …read more Continue reading ARPA-H Moonshot Project Aims to Enable 3D Printing of Human Organs
What do you do when you want to stick an electrode or even an couple of sensors to an internal organ, such as a heart? Generally you’d use some kind …read more Continue reading Bioadhesive Polymer Semiconductors For In-Vivo Sensors
Although it is generally assumed that surface elastic waves (vibrations) — such as those of earthquakes — will travel mostly unimpeded until their energy dissipates, there are ways to ‘steer’ …read more Continue reading Metamaterial Enables Topological Pumping of Elastic Surface Waves
When researchers at the Galatea laboratory in Switzerland set out to create a femtosecond in glass they weren’t certain it was going to work. To be precise, their goal was …read more Continue reading Femtosecond Laser Clones Itself In Glass