Collaborate Disseminate
The fun part about crycoolers is that there are so many different and exciting ways to make stuff cold, based on a wide variety of physics. This is why after …read more Continue reading Creating a Joule-Thomson Cryocooler and a Little Bit of History At Home
Doing something for the first time is tough. Yet to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the very stars, and do it right here on Earth in a controlled …read more Continue reading ITER Dreams and the Practical Reality of Making Nuclear Fusion Work On Earth
From the consumer space it often would appear as if Intel’s CPU making history is pretty much a straight line from the 4004 to the 8080, 8088 and straight into …read more Continue reading The i960: When Intel Almost Went RISC
The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed around in the context of hyper-advanced, state-of-the-art computing devices, but much as how a 19th century mechanical computer, a discrete computer created from …read more Continue reading Quantum Computing on a Commodore 64 in 200 Lines of BASIC
The best part of I2C is that it is a bus that is available just about anywhere, covering a vast ecosystem of devices that offer it as a hardware-defined interface, …read more Continue reading Three Pitfalls in I2C Everyone Wishes Weren’t There
As boring as propeller designs may seem to the average person, occasionally there’s a bit of a dust-up in the media about a ‘new’ design that promises at least a …read more Continue reading Testing Futuristic Propeller Designs With a 3D Printer and a Solar-Powered Boat
When you want to write software for a system like the Commodore 64, the obvious and safe choice is to create an image that can be used with a tape …read more Continue reading Creating a Commodore 64 Cartridge on Single-Sided Stripboard
Despite how hostile to life some parts of the Earth’s continents are, humanity has enthusiastically endeavored over the course of millennia to establish at least a toehold on each of …read more Continue reading Earth’s Final Frontier: Exploring The Alien Depths of the Earth’s Oceans
These days Bluetooth-based gadgets are everywhere, including for car and solar batteries. After connecting them up to the battery, you download the accompanying app on your smartphone, open it up …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Battery Monitors That Also Monitor Your Position, Without Asking
These days the dozen or so ECUs in an average car are joined by an infotainment system of some type, which are typically a large touch screen on the dashboard …read more Continue reading Honda Headunit Reverse Engineering, And the Dismal State Of Infotainment Systems