Collaborate Disseminate
One of the most crucial aspects of FDM 3D printing is ensuring sufficient material is extruded. Determining the right flow rate can be done manually, but some printers these days …read more Continue reading Automated Pressure Advance Using a Bed-Leveling Sensor
Perhaps the saddest thing about the Zilog Z80 is that this humble 8-bit microprocessor wasn’t allowed to live until its 50th birthday. This, fortunately, doesn’t prevent people like [David Oberhollenzer] …read more Continue reading Remembering the Zilog Z80 as it Turns Fifty Years Old
One of the major strengths of the BASIC programming languages has always been their no-fuss setup and rich set of commands for operations that would take considerably more work in …read more Continue reading Write 2D and 3D Games in Modern MoonBASIC
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is …read more Continue reading How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart
Built-in batteries put a timebomb inside devices, with especially the calendar aging feature of Li-ion chemistries setting a hard limit on when you’ll have to toss the device or figure …read more Continue reading EU Adds Exemptions to User-Serviceable Batteries Rules
Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful, but unless the device exposes something like SCPI on a network interface, …read more Continue reading Wireless LCD Streaming for the ANENG AN870 Multimeter
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like plants in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more Continue reading Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Launched in 2014, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft completed its primary asteroid sample return mission all the way back in 2020. But with the main spacecraft still healthy, the intrepid little probe …read more Continue reading Hayabusa2’s Next Target is a Tiny 11 Meter Asteroid
With Nintendo’s 3DS experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, prices for functioning systems have shot through the roof. Getting a busted one with a broken screen is a lot …read more Continue reading Hacking Around the Financial Pain of New 3DS XL Top Screens
A few years ago, France introduced a mandatory repairability score for consumer goods like laptops and tablets. It involves five criteria that range from documentation and availability of spare parts …read more Continue reading Benchmarking Repairability Scores with an Asus Tablet