Collaborate Disseminate
Research reactors come in many forms and sizes, with the TRIGA class being commonly found at universities. The TRIGA reactor at the University of Utah was installed in 1975, and …read more Continue reading University of Utah’s TRIGA Research Reactor Set to Produce Electricity
The idea of FDM 3D printing using granules rather than filament is an appealing one: rather than having to wrangle spools of filament that need to adhere to strict dimensions …read more Continue reading Direct FDM Printing with Granules
Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal combustion engines developed over the course of more than …read more Continue reading Why Opposed Piston Internal Combustion Engines Are Great
It seems fair to say that hamsters are a somewhat divisive pet, between their fluffiness, high-strung nature, short lifespan and incessant squeaking that sounds like some electronic device is trying …read more Continue reading Using Hamster Power to Charge a Phone
Even though the very concept of an ‘unpickable lock’ is as plausible as making water not be wet, this doesn’t take away from the intellectual thrill of devising solutions to …read more Continue reading Defeating the [Works By Design]’s Unpickable Lock
It shouldn’t be any surprise that NFC and similar RFID implementations are capable of providing power to a receiver, since this is after all how RFID tags can work without …read more Continue reading Using NFC to Power Devices Instead of Qi
Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get when you dial a basic auto-complete model …read more Continue reading The Math You Need to Start Understanding LLMs
The Iranian Shahed-136’s basic design has seen many changes and additions since Russia began using them, with some featuring interesting payloads such as cameras in a gimbal, making these drones …read more Continue reading Teardown of a Shahed-136 Gimbaled Camera
Making stuff cool and keeping it that way has been a pretty essential part of human civilization for thousands of years, with only in the past few hundred years man-made …read more Continue reading Strange Ways to Make Cold
Although the ReactOS project is in no rush to dethrone Windows as the desktop operating system of choice, this doesn’t mean that some real changes aren’t happening. Most recently two …read more Continue reading ReactOS Gets Unified Installer Image and a New Storage Stack