Collaborate Disseminate
Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful bits of plastic, [Jamie] has been …read more Continue reading Making an Air-Powered Circular Saw with LEGO
Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable’, naturally. This …read more Continue reading Looking at a TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive from 1983
When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less …read more Continue reading Trying to Fix a Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch
For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact …read more Continue reading Making a Neo Nuvistor Project in 2026
As FDM printers keep getting faster, we are forced to deal with a range of bottlenecks, all of which conspire to hold us back from another Benchie world record. A …read more Continue reading Changing Nozzle Internal Geometry to Increase FDM Flowrate
A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to basic questions, like how you can still access the …read more Continue reading Creating a Custom Hinge for a Motorbike’s Fuel Access Panel
The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if …read more Continue reading Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode ROM
Before LEGO train sets moved to battery-powered locomotives with plastic rails, all of them worked pretty much like any other train set of the era. This meant metal rails that …read more Continue reading Fixing a 1990s LEGO Electric Train Speed Regulator
As a certified RC airplane fan, the [RCMakerLab] on YouTube found themselves looking at one of those nifty mini air blowers that provide an alternative to a compressor and canned …read more Continue reading Disassembling a Mini Air Blower to Make RC Airplanes
As great as echolocation is, things can get rather messy once it’s not just you chirping away, but also hundreds of your buddies in roughly the same area. This is …read more Continue reading How Bats Prevent Doppler Acoustic Interference