Collaborate Disseminate
Something being impractical isn’t any reason not to do it, which is why just about anything with a CPU in it can run Doom by now. For the same reason …read more Continue reading Ray Tracing On A Modern TI Graphing Calculator
Recently [Big Clive], everyone’s favorite purveyor of anything electronic that’s dodgy, cheap, cheerful, decidedly crispy or any combination thereof, got sent a very dead external power supply unit. Being clearly …read more Continue reading The Little Replacement PSU That Could: Kill A Microsoft Surface And Monitor
Along with many other natural phenomena, lightning is probably familiar to most. Between its intense noise and visuals, there is also very little disagreement that getting hit by a lightning …read more Continue reading The Electrifying Debate Around Where Lightning Comes From
Crimp connectors provide an easy and convenient way to connect electronics while still allowing for them to be removed and swapped without having to reach for a soldering iron and …read more Continue reading Crimping Tools And The Cost Of Being Cheap
As great as cameras that operate in the visual light spectrum are, they omit a lot of the information that can be gleaned from other wavelengths. There is also the …read more Continue reading Shining A Different Light On Reality With Short-Wave Infrared Radiation
While wireless communications are unquestionably useful in projects, common wireless protocols such as WiFi and Bluetooth peter out after only a number of meters, which is annoying when your project …read more Continue reading Casually Chirping Into The World Of LoRaWAN
As anyone who has ever owned a piece of older equipment that has a potentiometer in it can attest to, these mechanical components do need their regular cleaning ritual. Whether …read more Continue reading Giving Vintage Synths New Life In A Potentiometer Cleaning Showdown
Who can’t resist snapping up a piece of really expensive laboratory testing gear for next to nothing when browsing eBay or similar? Maybe it’s giving you mournful eyes when browsing …read more Continue reading Rohde & Schwarz FSIQ Signal Analyzer IF-Filter Module Repair
In many ways, the human body is like any other machine in that it requires constant refueling and maintenance to keep functioning. Much of this happens without our intervention beyond …read more Continue reading Regenerative Medicine: The Promise Of Undoing The Ravages Of Time
Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), …read more Continue reading Open 3D Engine: Amazon’s Old Clothes Or A Game Engine To Truly Get Excited About?