Collaborate Disseminate
Perhaps one of the most contentious issues in 3D printing is that of supports, both because they’re an uncomfortable reminder of how gravity affects our prints and because the very …read more Continue reading Forget Trees, add Fins to your 3D Prints Instead
A good rule of thumb is that everything that can interact with electromagnetic (EM) radiation is an antenna, which includes our mostly-salty-water-containing bodies and also raindrops and moisture in the …read more Continue reading Why Raindrops Make for Pretty Good Antennae
One of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on nothing but some fossils and traces that are …read more Continue reading Determining the Body Temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex
In a recent video [Jeff Geerling] addresses an issue discovered with the Raspberry Pi firmware, specifically how since around 2024 the firmware locks down what RAM size and even module …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Locks Down RAM Upgrades
As cool as it would have been to wield lasers that produce a beam of neutrinos, recently two papers were published by MIT researchers that seem to dampen the likelihood …read more Continue reading New Research Suggests that a Neutrino Laser is Impossible
Even if the world has already settled on plain old propellers as the way to make quadcopter drones fly, this doesn’t mean that you cannot give other designs a shake …read more Continue reading Trying a New Radial Impeller Design for Quadcopters
In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed over the years, before attempting to boot OpenWrt for x86 …read more Continue reading DIY Router on x86 E-Waste: OpenWrt and OPNsense
Much of science is performed through inference, with the readings on instruments, a flash of light in heavy water, or the results of parsing through terabytes of sensor data after …read more Continue reading Searching for Dark Matter with a Levitating Magnet
Photodetectors come in a wide variety of constructions and materials, with the Cu2O-based photodetector that [Mad Scientist Creations] demonstrates in a recent video being a good example of a photodetector …read more Continue reading Making a Copper-Oxide Photodetector from Scratch
Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a dustbowl. When [electronupdate] timer refused to output water …read more Continue reading Teardown and Repair of a Insoma Water Timer