Collaborate Disseminate
As great as batteries are, it’s essential to understand their risks and how to keep them from going spicy. Recently there has been a bit of a fuss about the …read more Continue reading Testing LFP Battery Failure Modes With Overcharging
China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission launched on 28 May of 2025 and is scheduled to arrive at its target – near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo’oalewa – in June 2026. This gives …read more Continue reading Decoding the Tianwen-2 Sample Return Mission’s Telemetry Signal
The topic of downstream and upstream is an important one in the Linux ecosystem, where from one base distribution you can go many layers of distros deep before even looking …read more Continue reading Linux Distributions and Who is Responsible For the Software
Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging …read more Continue reading Autopsy of a Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor
It seems fair to say that Dyson sits at the intersection of impressive engineering and borderline ridiculous products. The Dyson Airblade 9KJ hand dryer that [ElectrArc240] recently took to bits …read more Continue reading Inside Dyson’s Over-Engineered ₤1000 Hand Dryer
Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry immense amounts of water around the globe on a …read more Continue reading AMOC and the Planet-Wide Impact of Ocean Currents
The Honeywell X2S Smart Thermostat is a Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat that is meant to integrate with your typical ‘smart home’ setup, with mobile app control available as well. Of course, just …read more Continue reading Honeywell X2S Smart Thermostat Firmware Reverse-Engineering
After the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations in 2022, it soon made a tantalizing discovery in the form of mysterious red dots: small, red-tinted astronomical objects of unknown …read more Continue reading Figuring Out What James Webb’s Mysterious Little Red Dots Are
Glass-based substrates are slowly beginning to push out organic substrates commonly used in PCBs due to often superior material properties. One area where glass substrates have however struggled is with …read more Continue reading Through-Glass Vias and the Long Road to Glass Substrates
There are many ways you can implement an Intel i386 CPU on an FPGA, with the use of original microcode probably being one of the most interesting approaches. This is …read more Continue reading z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode