Collaborate Disseminate
Recently the Practical Engineering YouTube channel featured a functional recreation of a pump design that is presumed by some to have been used to pump water up to the medieval …read more Continue reading Medieval Alhambra’s Pulser Pump and Other Aquatic Marvels
Can you charge those Li-ion based cells with USB-C charging ports without taking them out of the device? While this would seem to be answered with an unequivocal ‘yes’, recently …read more Continue reading The Hazards of Charging USB-C Equipped Cells In-Situ
Anyone who has ever played Nintendo 64 games is probably familiar with the ways that large worlds in these games got split up, with many loading zones. Another noticeable aspect …read more Continue reading Writing an Open-World Engine for the Nintendo 64
Although GNSS systems like GPS have made pin-pointing locations on Earth’s sphere-approximating surface significantly easier and more precise, it’s always possible to go a bit further. The latest innovation involves …read more Continue reading Laser Ranging Makes GPS Satellites More Accurate
Ionizing radiation damage from electrons, protons and gamma rays will over time damage a CMOS circuit, through e.g. degrading the oxide layer and damaging the lattice structure. For a space-based …read more Continue reading Self-healing CMOS Imager to Withstand Jupiter’s Radiation Belt
Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. …read more Continue reading Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange
Like many high-tech companies Tesla runs a bug bounty program. But in the case of a car manufacturer, this means that you either already have one of their cars, are …read more Continue reading Turning Tesla Model 3’s Computer Into a Desktop PC
Although not really a cost-effective or a required skill unless you have some very specific needs not met by off-the-shelf power resistor options, making your own own wirewound power resistor …read more Continue reading Making a Nichrome Wirewound Power Resistor
Once the premium option for data transfers and remote control for high-end audiovisual and other devices, FireWire (IEEE 1394) has been dying a slow death ever since Apple and Sony …read more Continue reading Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi Before Linux Drops Support
Recently [ETA Prime] felt a bit underwhelmed by the raw performance of his MacBook Neo when it came to running for extended periods under full load, such as when gaming. …read more Continue reading Water Cooling the MacBook Neo Laptop to Double Gaming Performance