Collaborate Disseminate
Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about steam power? We have all …read more Continue reading Making Steam-Powered LEGO Machines
When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable sound of faux romanticism along with ‘lost ancient …read more Continue reading Medieval Iron, Survivorship Bias and Modern Metallurgy
When you go on your favorite cheap online shopping platform and order a batch of 74LS logic ICs, what do you get? Most likely relabeled 74HC ICs, if the results …read more Continue reading The Headache of Fake 74LS Logic Chips
We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. …read more Continue reading Reproduced and Recovered: the First Chinese Keyboard-based MingKwai Typewriter
Marketplaces and e-waste recycling centers are practically overflowing with the things: ARM-based streaming TV boxes that run some — usually very outdated and compromised — version of Android. While you …read more Continue reading Repurposing Dodgy Android TV Boxes As Linux Boxes
One of the most frustrating parts about flying a quadcopter is having to regularly swap battery packs, as this massively limits what you can do with said quadcopter, never mind …read more Continue reading Building a PV Solar-Powered Quadcopter
The World Wide Web of the 90s was a magical place, where you couldn’t click two links without getting bombarded with phrases such as the Information Super Highway and Multimedia …read more Continue reading Making YouTube Work in the Netscape 4.5 Browser on Windows 98
Having another security threat emanating from Node.js’ Node Package Manager (NPM) feels like a weekly event at this point, but this newly discovered one is among the more refined. It …read more Continue reading PhantomRaven Attack Exploits NPM’s Unchecked HTTP URL Dependency Feature
If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by prominent figures and their respective …read more Continue reading Self-Driving Cars and the Fight Over the Necessity of Lidar
These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason for this is obvious: they got a very practical charge …read more Continue reading Why Sodium-Ion Batteries are Terrible for Solar Storage