Collaborate Disseminate
The ground-effect (GE) refers to the almost mystical property where the interaction of the airflow around an aircraft’s wing and the ground massively increases efficiency due to the reduction of …read more Continue reading Exploring Ground-Effect With a Quadcopter
As amazing and groundbreaking the Nintendo 64 was, over the years it has also become synonymous with blurry textures and liberal use of Gouraud shading as its most strongly defining …read more Continue reading Implementing MegaTextures on Real Nintendo 64 Hardware
Perpetual motion and notions of ‘free energy’ devices are some of those pseudo-science topics that seem to perpetually hang around, no matter how many times it is explained how this …read more Continue reading Simulating a Real Perpetual Motion Device
Over the past decades we have been able to observe a change in the Earth’s climate, caused by an increasing amount of energy being retained in the atmosphere. This in …read more Continue reading The Challenge of Weather Modification in the Face of Climate Change
In an ideal world, every single battery pack for power tools would use the same physical interface and speak a clearly documented protocol with chargers. Since we live in a …read more Continue reading Reverse-engineering the Milwaukee M18 Redlink Protocol
For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues …read more Continue reading Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years
With demand for lithium in the world market projected to increase by 2040 to as much as eight times the demand in 2022, finding new deposits of this metal has …read more Continue reading Determining the Size of the New US Lithium Deposit Amidst Exploding Demand
As futuristic as holographic technology may sound, in a sense it’s actually already in widespread commercial use. Concerts and similar events already use volumetric projection, with a fine mesh (hologram …read more Continue reading Out With The Circus Animals, In With The Holograms
One of the delights of the boring pre-VGA era is that you get to express your creativity when it comes to making a random color CRT work with an equally …read more Continue reading RGB Graphics On a DEC Rainbow With Reverse-Engineered Monitor
The ways in which we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the decades. From flipping switches on the control panels of room-sized computers, to punching holes into cards, to …read more Continue reading On Vim, Modal Interfaces and the Way We Interact With Computers