Collaborate Disseminate
When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment …read more Continue reading Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager …read more Continue reading NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With a Big Bang
Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic that often got described in terms of such fruit variants. …read more Continue reading Going Full Fruity with Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3
It’s rather awkward when you buy a piece of hardware like a sketchy router to make a video about its hidden admin password backdoor – known as CVE-2026-11405 – only …read more Continue reading Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo
After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as to …read more Continue reading Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD
For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog …read more Continue reading Train Simulator Controller: July 2026 Progress Roundup
Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but …read more Continue reading Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help
Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for that performance go-kart project, you may feel financially pressured …read more Continue reading Testing Hundreds of Used LFP Cells Requires Some Automation
In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create temporary circuits using …read more Continue reading Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. …read more Continue reading Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604