Collaborate Disseminate
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
After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays work. Although VFDs are …read more Continue reading Vacuum Fluorescent Displays Explained
After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, many of the associated hardware became effectively obsolete. This led to quite …read more Continue reading Converting a Nebra Cryptocurrency Miner To a Meshcore Repeater
Although already having entered the territory of ‘retro gaming’, the Sony PlayStation 3 remains a notoriously hard to emulate game console. Much of this is to blame on its unique …read more Continue reading PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Can Almost Play Three-Quarters of PS3 Games