Collaborate Disseminate
Although the humble propeller and its derivatives still form the primary propulsion method for ships, this doesn’t mean that alternative methods haven’t been tried. One of the more fascinating ones …read more Continue reading Yamato-1: the World’s First Ship With Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion
After initially announcing that Bose will completely turn off all ‘smart’ features in its SoundTouch series of speaker products, the company has seemingly responded to the wave of unhappy feedback …read more Continue reading Bose SoundTouch Smart Speakers get an Open Source Lifeline
In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us …read more Continue reading NPAPI and the Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web
As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and brown, the ABS plastic also tends to get brittle. This is …read more Continue reading Repairing Brittle Plastic Retro Computer Cases
Regardless of what your opinion is on cult-classic movies that got mixed-to-negative box office reviews when they were released, you have to admire the ones that went all out on …read more Continue reading The Full-Sized 32-Wheeled, Articulated Bus Built for a 1976 Movie
How hard would it be to clone the Wii U gamepad, the quirky controller with its unique embedded screen? This is the question that [MattKC] faced as he noticed the …read more Continue reading The Issue With Wii U Gamepads and How to Clone Them
After previously putting carbon fiber-reinforced PLA filament under the (electron) microscope, the [I built a thing] bloke is back with a new video involving PLA-CF, this time involving co-extrusion rather …read more Continue reading Co-Extrusion Carbon Fiber FDM Filament Investigated
There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t snap it up if the price is …read more Continue reading Repairing a Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator
As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since its discovery by [Michael …read more Continue reading Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field
The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus …read more Continue reading The Many Questions and Challenges with DIY Hydroelectric Generators