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Some FDM filaments are pretty brittle even if properly dried and stored, especially those which contain carbon fiber (CF) or similar additives like glass fiber (GF). This poses a problem …read more Continue reading Testing Whether Heated Chambers Help Brittle Filaments
Many substances display crystallization, allowing them to keep adding to a basic shape to reach pretty humongous proportions. Although we usually tend to think of pretty stones that get fashioned …read more Continue reading How to Grow Large Sugar Crystals
Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding No Man’s Land, there was still active trade between the …read more Continue reading Testing a Soviet 1000 Volt Insulation Tester from 1985
Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting on the final touches after previously passing the boiler inspection. …read more Continue reading Preparing to Fire Up a 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half a Century
Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some …read more Continue reading From 8086 to Z80: Building a NASM-Inspired SDK for 8-Bit Retro Computing
Recycling plastic at home using 3D printed molds is relatively accessible these days, but if you do not wish to invest a lot of money into specialized equipment, what’s the …read more Continue reading Recycled Plastic Compression Molding With 3D-Printed Molds
Kitchen scales are plentiful and cheap, but their accuracy and measuring speed often leave a lot to be desired. In particular the filtering out of noise can make small changes …read more Continue reading Making a Better Kitchen Scale out of Junk Parts
Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using expansion cards that were effectively self-contained computers. This way an …read more Continue reading Porting MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple IIe
The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on …read more Continue reading Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego
After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, [ScuffedBits] decided to do the scientifically responsible thing and re-ran the experiment with all …read more Continue reading Running a PC off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance