Collaborate Disseminate
Generally the DVB-S and -S2 standards require a satellite somewhere in Earth orbit to provide a signal to receive, but you can also transmit your own DVB-S2 stream with any …read more Continue reading Using an ESP32-C3’s RF Hardware for DVB-S2 Video Transmission
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more Continue reading Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded …read more Continue reading Counting the PET Bottles Needed to Make 1 Kg of Printer Filament
The variant of origami called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts off with a sheet of paper, but it allows for cutting the paper to increase the number of …read more Continue reading Using Kirigami Techniques to Make Functional Designs
The Prusa Core One+ INDX is an interesting upgrade to the base FDM printer by Prusa, featuring eight independent extruders – hence the INDX – that in theory should allow …read more Continue reading The Prusa Core One+ INDX, a Troubled Multi-Extruder Upgrade?
Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived. The owner of the Zilog name – Littelfuse – …read more Continue reading Littelfuse Announces Retirement of the EZ80
Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips. Labelled only with a date code of the …read more Continue reading Inside a Mystery 1980s Filter IC Featuring Switched Capacitors
The Abric Romaní site in Spain is rather unique in archeology for one simple reason: the caves in its limestone-rich cliff have seen humanoid occupation for thousands of years. A …read more Continue reading Unique Archeological Discovery Sheds Light on Neanderthal Wooden Tool Usage
Although the asking price of $209 plus shipping seems high for the Radxa Dragon Q8B, featuring the Qualcomm SC8280XP and 8 GB of LPDDR4X, this is 2026, and amid the …read more Continue reading Poking at the Radxa Dragon Q8B Raspberry Pi 5 Killer
Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had suffered an explosive blow-out. For the project …read more Continue reading Embedded 3D Printing with Liquids on a Bricked Prusa FDM Printer