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One could make a joke about how an astronaut walking on the lunar surface is rather akin to a cat walking on the carpet in the living room, but out …read more Continue reading NASA’s Lunar Grounding Challenge is a Real Buzz
Joining the ranks of fresh backported Nintendo games is Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance (GBA), courtesy of [Tobias Friedly], AKA [Tobi]. In a recent video he announces …read more Continue reading Super Mario Galaxy Now Runs on the GBA
Although solar panels may seem like a kind of magic, they’re really quite simple devices, in their silicon form featuring nothing but the p-type silicon wafer and an n-type layer …read more Continue reading Making Photovoltaic Solar Cells with a Microwave
Although for many decades the planet Mars has been prodded, poked, driven upon, flown over and especially orbited by various spacecraft, landers and rovers sent over by a certain humanoid …read more Continue reading The New Phobos Martian Moon Rover that Weighs in at Only 15 Grams
One of the often made claims about plastics is that they are chemically inert under most conditions, such as when exposed to water. This long-held belief has also challenged the …read more Continue reading Busting the Myth that Plastics are Chemically Inert in Water
Technically all that you need in order to make a drone fly is a single motor and single propeller, but realistically it becomes basically impossible to fly it at that …read more Continue reading Building a Flying Drone With a Single Propeller
In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take …read more Continue reading Fairbuds 2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap
The ‘biofriendly’ nature of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) filament often gets touted as one of its main advantages over alternatives like PETG, but even a modicum of research ought to inform …read more Continue reading Disposing of PLA and Why Composting is Not an Option
Determining the shape of an object which can change dynamically is a bit of a challenge, one that especially vexes those who are really into Virtual Reality. Sensing the orientation …read more Continue reading Using Optical Waveguide Arrays to Make Sheets Sense Shapes
Since we last covered the way that the Linux Kernel project has been dealing with the influx of code created using LLM-based coding assistants, all the way back in April, …read more Continue reading Linux Kernel Drops AI Tag Requirement, Uses Meta AI For Code Reviews