Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be replaced. Yet when the …read more Continue reading Servicing the ‘Not Serviceable’ Bearings on a Vacuum Power Head
With the powerful off-the-shelf hardware available to us common hardware hobbyist folk, how hard can it be to make a smartphone from scratch? Hence [V Electronics]’s Spirit smartphone project, with …read more Continue reading Pi Compute Module Powers Fully Open Smartphone
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In addition to this, you …read more Continue reading Create a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter
Before the refrigerator became a normal part of any kitchen, those with enough money to throw around could get an icebox, which used melting ice to cool food and drinks …read more Continue reading Restoring a 1924 Frigidaire B-9 Refrigerator Back to Working Condition
Carbon fiber (CF) has attained somewhat of a near-mystical appeal in consumer marketing, with it being praised for being stronger than steel while simultaneously being extremely lightweight. This mostly refers …read more Continue reading Does Carbon Fiber PLA Make Sense?
Over the past years, the author of the cURL project, [Daniel Stenberg], has repeatedly complained about the increasingly poor quality of bug reports filed due to LLM chatbot-induced confabulations, also …read more Continue reading The cURL Project Drops Bug Bounties Due To AI Slop
Although jet engines are theoretically quite simple devices, in reality they tread a fine line between working as intended and vaporizing into a cloud of lethal shrapnel. The main reason …read more Continue reading Balancing a Turbine Rotor to 1 mg With a DIY Dynamic Balancer
In [Big Clive]’s recent grab bag of tat ordered from Chinese commerce platforms, there were two touch light control boxes that can turn any ungrounded conductive surface into a mains …read more Continue reading Inside a Sketchy Mains Voltage Touch Control Dimmer
When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition. If such excitement is not really your thing, you can …read more Continue reading Isolated AC/DC Power Supply and Testing Station for 230 V Devices
Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors that emerge when a polymer is exposed to water. Although the paper …read more Continue reading Polymer Skins That Change Color and Texture When Exposed to Water