Collaborate Disseminate
After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when …read more Continue reading Fixing an Expensive Seagate LaCie Hard Drive Array
A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as …read more Continue reading Making a Pole Balance Itself With Propellers
Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually …read more Continue reading Repairing Traces on a Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong
After getting called out in the field to troubleshoot a large PV solar installation, [Derek] found himself suddenly in the midst of an arc flash, causing burns all over his …read more Continue reading How to Avoid Getting Arc Flashed
The idea of painting a roof or wall white in order to reflect sunshine and keep the building’s insides cool is hardly a new one, and even in the loosest …read more Continue reading Exploring the Downsides of Cooling Roof Paint
Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms. …read more Continue reading Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution by Wiggling
As fun as mucking about with simulated environments in a laboratory is, at some point you have to do those field tests to demonstrate that your prototype actually works in …read more Continue reading Harvesting Namib Desert Fog with High Voltage
Despite the wide variety of fabrics used for our clothing, they all share the property of not being living tissues. This could be due to them never having been part …read more Continue reading Creating the Greenest Possible Clothing with Living Fungi
After just a little over 25 years of the Haiku project trying to keep the BeOS spirit alive, the team has now released Beta 6. The spicy details of what …read more Continue reading Haiku OS Releases Beta 6
In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears …read more Continue reading How Gold Plastic Syndrome is Killing Toys and Game Consoles