Collaborate Disseminate
While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to these microscopic particles. While you can certainly strip mine an entire …read more Continue reading Removing Microplastics from Soil with Tumbling Magnetic Flakes
With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more Continue reading The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments
One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows …read more Continue reading The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps
Now that MCUs like the ESP32-S3 are quite capable computer systems including USB host functionality, it only makes sense that you can connect USB peripherals like Logitech racing wheels to …read more Continue reading Read a USB Logitech Racing Wheel on an ESP32‑S3
When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just …read more Continue reading Getting Back Into Resin Printing: First Results
Although lighting 3D prints on fire is rarely the intended outcome, it’s possible that said print will at some point in its future come into contact with either an open …read more Continue reading Lighting 3D Printed Parts on Fire for Science
In this era of consumer-grade FDM printers that have automatic bed levelling, automatic pressure advance tuning, automatic temperature regulation and so on buttoned away behind bullet-proof presets and automation, something …read more Continue reading Is Manual Filament Tuning Still Worth It?
It’s no real secret that battery packs for power tools aren’t the foremost when it comes to user serviceability, so if said battery pack suddenly stops charging outside of warranty, …read more Continue reading Fixing a Dead Makita Battery with a 20 Cent Part
In the world of children’s toys there are many offerings which are meant to look like devices used by older kids or even adults, with the Fisher Price Laugh & …read more Continue reading Turning a Toy Game Boy into a Real Game Boy
Taking a break from putting DOOM on devices that absolutely were never conceived for use as gaming devices, [Aaron Christophel] recently got enticed by some cheapo handheld gaming systems at …read more Continue reading Running DOOM on a Cheap 104-in-One Handheld