Collaborate Disseminate
If the term ‘NLWeb’ first brought to mind an image of a Dutch internet service provider, you’re probably not alone. What it actually is – or tries to become – …read more Continue reading Microsoft’s New Agentic Web Protocol Stumbles With Path Traversal Exploit
Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the dirty laundry into the machine, fill up the detergent, and let …read more Continue reading Teardown of a Persil Smartwash Smart Laundry Detergent Ball
It’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity increases. That said, as with any market that is full of people who are hunting for that ‘great deal’, …read more Continue reading Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap is Too Cheap?
You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in …read more Continue reading VRML and the Dream of Bringing 3D to the World Wide Web
Having a chiller is often essential for the chemistry laboratory, but what if you’re somewhere without easy access to water, nevermind a mains outlet to plug your usual chiller into? …read more Continue reading A Portable 12 VDC Water Chiller for the Chemistry Lab
One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that should fit together actually do. While adding significant tolerance between parts is an option, often you …read more Continue reading How to Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance in Mind
Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs …read more Continue reading A Gentle Introduction to Fortran
We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers to specialized ASICs being fair game. More recently, retro components …read more Continue reading The Scourge of Fake Retro Unijunction Transistors
During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor technology took off. This included radios, with Philips’ TDA7000 FM radio receiver …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the TDA7000 FM Radio Receiver IC
We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics …read more Continue reading Why Cheap Digital Microscopes are Pretty Terrible